On the new Chief of Staff, Halutz

דן חלוץ הוא הרמטכ"ל הבא של צה"ל.

אין מה לומר, המינוי ראוי. מדינת ישראל, וצבאה, ראויים לדן חלוץ, האיש והרגישות, האיש והמצפון.

Shah of Shahs / Ryszard Kapuściński

Exactly 38 years ago, Khomeini returned to Iran from his exile in France, and set in motion the Islamic Revolution of Iran. A little over a year…
On Immigrants

Speaking of immigrants, Sir Ian McKellen would like to offer this passage, from the Elizabethan play Sir Thomas More: GEORGE. Marry, the removing…
Goodreads is fun; Dickens; Mortimer

I've been pretty indifferent to most of the recent social-network sites, but I'm really enjoying goodreads.com. I'm a pretty busy reader, with a…