Michael Kuttner
It’s not the money, honey
One would have thought by now everyone might have woken up to the fact that it is not a lack of money which prevents...
Carrots or sticks
Definition: a policy of offering a combination of reward and punishment to induce good behaviour.
This motivational theory has been used by parents for generations...
Enough already
Anonymous quote: “There is a time to be nice and there is a time to say enough already.”
For seventy-one years Israel has been the...
Scam alert
“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten and the lie became the truth” – George Orwell 1984.
As we celebrate Yom Yerushalayim (Jerusalem Day)...
Repeats, reruns and recycled
History repeats itself in almost every generation. The same endless assertions and accusations are rerun and recycled by politicians and media alike.
One would have...
What’s in it for us?
Anyone who has shopped at or toured around the famous Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem, commonly known as the “shuk”, will recall the cacophony...
Beware of the small print
Most of us know that it is the small print which very often determines the real meaning and intent of any document or political...
Intolerable insanity
If your country was bombarded by over seven hundred missiles would you expect universal world condemnation or calls for restraint and diplomacy?
Once again like...
Pain and joy – tragedy and triumph
Like so many times in our people’s long journey, from a small family in pagan surroundings through exile and slavery to liberation and the...
Fact or Fiction?
Who would have thought that a mere seventy-four years after the Holocaust, large numbers of people in many countries would either be ignorant of...