Michael Kuttner

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Gone With The Wind

Surveying the chaos currently enveloping many countries one can only conclude that insanity has become the new norm. Rational discourse leading to positive rectification of...

(Un) lawful?

Since 1948 the UN and its associated institutions have never lost an opportunity to condemn Israel for one form of “unlawful” behaviour or another. What...

Seismic Rumbles

Instability amidst signs of upheavals, eruptions and impending chaos seem currently to be the order of the day. Wherever one looks in the world insanity...

Countdown

From Passover until the Festival of Shavuot, Jews worldwide have been counting the days and weeks that have elapsed.  After forty-nine days we celebrate and...

Unfinished business

Fifty-three years ago on the 28th Iyar of the Hebrew calendar the old city of Jerusalem was liberated from illegal Jordanian control. This week we celebrate...

Incoming waves

Every expert is now talking about an expected second wave of the coronavirus as most of us ease slowly out of the current crisis. Unlike...

Courting controversies

With the coronavirus crisis in Israel at the moment seemingly under control, attention is now focusing on several other developing dramas. In no particular order...

Is there ever a right time?

Israelis this week remember all those who lost their lives so that Jewish sovereignty could once again be guaranteed followed by celebrations to commemorate...

Time to “get over it?”

Yom Hashoah, the annual commemoration of the Holocaust, takes place every year in Israel and elsewhere immediately after Passover. This year’s ceremonies will thanks to...

Corona casualties and other symptoms

Apart from the tragic toll of lives and devastated families this pandemic has also let loose ancient demons. It has also left in its wake potential political...