A good plan to beat COVID-19 in Israel
Here's a sensible plan of action for Israel to replace the dithering and politicking that's been screwing up everything.
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Mark Lavie
- Jul 22, 2020
- 1 min
Halacha and COVID-19—fateful choices
How long until people rebel against this unreasonable behavior and either stop taking part in services or try a different stream of Judaism?
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Mark Lavie
- Jul 17, 2020
- 1 min
Coronavirus: Not all bad...
",,,no more huge, ear-splitting weddings, crowded bars, and shoulder-to-elbow restaurants...that's not a bad thing."
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Mark Lavie
- Jun 21, 2020
- 3 min
"Be Afraid"--the wrong message
So is the prime minister's threat of a new lockdown warranted? No, and that's not even the direction the government itself is taking.
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Mark Lavie
- Jun 7, 2020
- 3 min
Numbers don't add up to a 2nd Corona wave
This is the place to emphasize that we need to learn how to live with Corona.
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Mark Lavie
- Mar 2, 2020
- 1 min
Israeli hospital award masks weaknesses
"How is this not the top issue in today's election?"
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Mark Lavie
- Jan 3, 2020
- 2 min
Soleimani assassination: Right, but wise?
Certainly he deserved to die. But there is a saying in Hebrew: "Better wise than right."
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Mark Lavie
- Dec 31, 2019
- 1 min
How to prevent a massacre
"This isn't an endorsement of rancom worshippers packing heat and opening fire on a crowded church of synagogue."
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Mark Lavie
- Nov 27, 2019
- 1 min
"Embattled" Bibi's failed demo
"After such efforts...anything less than 100.000 (demonstrators) would have been a failure."
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Mark Lavie
- Nov 26, 2019
- 1 min
Join my February book/lecture tour!
"Yet Israelis keep voting on security, the the real issues are domestic, including relations with Diaspora Jews."
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Mark Lavie
- Nov 19, 2019
- 2 min
First read the US statement. Then we'll talk.
"In other words, both the apoplectic left and the ecstatic right have it wrong."
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Mark Lavie
- Sep 26, 2019
- 3 min
Let Arab parties into the ruling coalition
"...one day we will look back on the old days when Arab parties were automatically excluded from government and wonder why."
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Mark Lavie
- Sep 15, 2019
- 1 min
Israel's election results now!
"The classic division of left and right over security issues has outlived its usefulness."
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Mark Lavie
- Aug 11, 2019
- 4 min
Tisha B’Av—are we missing the point?
There’s a hidden aspect to Tisha B’Av, mourning the destruction of the Temples in Jerusalem, that could put holy sites, and the Temples...
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Mark Lavie
- Jul 30, 2019
- 3 min
Really, why do liberals dislike Trump?
A few days ago a friend asked me why liberal Democrats dislike President Trump. After all, he said, the US economy is in good shape,...
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Mark Lavie
- Jul 21, 2019
- 5 min
Moon landing--the veteran and me
“Program note”–after my musings as a rookie reporter, read on for a gripping essay by Jim Slade, a friend and colleague, who actually...
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Mark Lavie
- Jul 9, 2019
- 2 min
An(other) American medical travesty
The person mentioned in the post below is in his 80s. He's a wonderful guy. When my father was dying, he piled my wife and kids into his...
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Mark Lavie
- Jul 3, 2019
- 3 min
Ethiopian-Israeli protests: what did we expect?
Like many others, I was caught in a traffic snarl because of the protests by Ethiopian-Israelis, blocking roads after an off-duty Israeli...
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Mark Lavie
- Jun 24, 2019
- 4 min
Israel should help with US Jewish security
Security—personal and community-wide—is topmost on the minds of American Jews, after two fatal terror attacks there in the past year....
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Mark Lavie
- Apr 10, 2019
- 3 min
Israel: Beating a dead Leftist horse
Israel’s electorate has refused to grow up, and its leaders are to blame. They turned the election campaign into a fight of Right against...
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