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Articles Written by: HILLEL HALKIN
Although the world and the new Obama administration continue to pin their hopes on it, a two-state solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that would involve the removal of all Jewish settlements from a Palestine established along Israel’s 1967 ...
From HILLEL HALKIN,
Commentary,
28 May 2009
On June 6, 1982, following the collapse of a year-long truce between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization, the Israeli army invaded a Lebanon torn by years of civil war. It did so after the PLO, which controlled most of the Lebanese south ...
From HILLEL HALKIN,
Commentary,
24 Feb 2009
Last October 9, the evening of Yom Kippur, Jewish-Arab riots broke out in the Israeli coastal city of Acre. They began with the stoning by Jewish youths of an Arab who drove his car through a Jewish neighborhood after the onset of the fast, the ...
From HILLEL HALKIN,
Commentary,
29 Dec 2008
Collections of Jewish tales, of which Howard Schwartz, a professor of English literature at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, has published several, have been around for a long time. Excluding classical rabbinic texts like the Talmud and the ...
From HILLEL HALKIN,
Commentary,
24 Nov 2008
At the time, it seemed so imaginative an exegesis that I thought of doing something fictional with it. In the end, nothing came of it. The other night, though, I found myself reading the parshah of Vayera. That’s the fourth Torah reading of Genesis, ...
From HILLEL HALKIN,
Commentary,
30 Oct 2008
Normally, if you worry that a newspaper column you write may not appear, that's because you're afraid the newspaper won't like it. It doesn't often happen that you're afraid the newspaper may not appear either.
As I write this, no one knows if the Sun ...
From HILLEL HALKIN,
The New York Sun,
29 Sep 2008
It is hard to feel very sorry for Israel's prime minister, Ehud Olmert, who resigned from his position two days ago. He is said to be a nice person, warm to his friends, and considerate to his staff. This may be true, just as it is true that he is a ...
From HILLEL HALKIN,
The New York Sun,
22 Sep 2008
During the last six months, my wife and I have had more contact with health care plans, doctors, and hospitals than we ever had before and, I hope, will ever have to have again. Medically, the story has had a happy ending. It has also given me a long, ...
From HILLEL HALKIN,
The New York Sun,
16 Sep 2008
With the recommendation of Israel's police to indict Prime Minister Olmert on corruption charges, and the approaching primaries in Mr. Olmert's Kadima party that are now barely a week away, it seems an increasingly safe bet that the next prime minister ...
It is told of the poet Chaim Nachman Bialik, who moved from Odessa to Tel Aviv in the early 1920s, that, upon hearing for the first time of a robbery in the new Jewish city, he thanked God for having made the Jews a normal people. A similar story is ...
