Michael Kuttner

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Unchartered territory

Much is made of the fact that the coronavirus pandemic now spreading chaos worldwide is something unprecedented. This is in fact not the case because...

Delaying the inevitable

Trying to prevent events which are spiralling out of control from actually happening is an exercise in futility. Three challenges currently convulsing the world exemplify...

Behind the masks

As we prepare to celebrate Purim, Jewish communities worldwide are once again confronted by the same challenges which the Jews of ancient Persia faced. Only...

Lottery time plus reality check

Taking a lottery ticket without knowing whether you will be a winner or loser seems eerily similar to our forthcoming third round of elections. When...
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We Are on the List Again

As any student of Jewish history soon learns certain events keep repeating themselves in every generation. Sure enough, a couple of years later my grandfather’s...

The next act

The latest attempt at bringing a resolution to more than seven decades of Arab refusal to accept the validity of Jewish sovereignty is inevitably...

A deal you can’t refuse?

The quote “beware of Greeks bearing gifts” came to mind as President Trump’s “deal of the century” was unveiled amidst much pomp and ceremony. This...

After the Holocaust Forum

The VIP’s have departed, Jerusalem roads are back to their normal congested state and Israelis are now bracing for inevitable fallout from the “deal...

If only…

There are many times in life when one can look back and proclaim: “if only events had been different the results would not have...

You had better believe them

The new year has started off, as predicted, in spectacular fashion with more inflammatory rhetoric against Israel. For those who naively believed that 2020 would...