I no longer remember which Israeli artist colony I was visiting. Perhaps Jaffa. But I will never forget the crude, almost primitive paintings that were

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Whenever my grandfather would visit us he would ask me to obtain the key for the local synagogue. As regular readers of this column know

Although many of his adherents deny it, he definitely had an anti-Semitic streak and was at least, for a time, sympathetic to the Nazi cause.

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He did most of his writing and public speaking almost exactly 100 years ago. He had no secular education, and it is doubtful that he

When children once inquired about where babies come from, they were told that the stork brought them. The stork is a migratory bird that was

There was a time when I would only go out of my way to listen to speakers who were older and more experienced than I.