Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

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Jul 6, 2018, 2:13 PM

Understanding Donald Trump for Left-Wing intellectuals

I continue to read and hear nonsense by sophisticated Left-Wingers. Let me try again to clarify. 1. Workers -- Donald Trump is on a four-year election tour for 2020. That's his first priority. Since everyone, friend and foe, predicted that...

Jul 5, 2018, 8:05 AM

When we look at the whole list of Sacrifices that are prescribed in our portion of the week, we could notice something extraordinary. On those for every day (twice) it says three times that they will give a pleasant...

Jul 4, 2018, 7:31 AM

Netanyahu will form a new majority government without new elections

When the new draft law will become law, some (but not all) religious parties will bolt the government and Yesh Atid will fill up the seats needed for a new majority reign of Netanyahu. Great possibilities will open up for...

Jul 3, 2018, 3:16 AM

One Orthodox rabbi can make a huge difference

One Orthodox rabbi can make a huge difference, even if he can't change Jewish Law on his own. At least, he makes people say: what a great person he is. That is the most important Commandment a Jew can...

Jul 2, 2018, 12:08 AM

For thousands of years, it must have sounded crazy that Jews would be the apple of G-d's eye. The idea that this tiny decimated universally despised group scattered around the world would return en masse to Palestine to reshape...

Jun 30, 2018, 9:47 PM

Mothers who have episiotomy in first delivery more likely to need one in next?

This is the text of a nonsensical piece of medical news about a surgical cut sometimes given during delivery. Statistics are fun things. You can prove anything with them - to people who don't pay attention. The mistake here is...

Jun 29, 2018, 5:54 PM

A warning to wicked leaders: G-d always wins

The Torah Portion of this week is named after a wicked person, Balak, while we normally see such naming as a homage. How can this be? "What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name...

Jun 28, 2018, 12:39 PM

Posing naked in front of the Western Wall in Jerusalem

I understand the happiness of making a living through one's craziness, so the delight of exhibitionists who are able to shock, get publicity and make lots of money from exposing themselves. The question is, however, can society tolerate this. There...

Jun 27, 2018, 10:29 AM

Charedic, scientific or reporter’s shortsightedness?

New reports suggest that Israeli "ultra-Orthodox" teenagers are more likely to need glasses for distance due to shortsightedness than Israel's secular and modern-Orthodox teens, because of their lifestyles. This is just what everyone says: If you'd read too much you...

Jun 26, 2018, 8:36 AM

Making America Racist Again

Trump's Make America Great Again election slogan was shaped and chosen because it did well with his crowds. It sounds kind of conservative and romantic. It was adopted despite that it has four words and eight syllables and is...

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About Me

DES survivor born in 1953, to two Holocaust survivors in The Netherlands, and holds a BA in medicine. He taught Re-evaluation Co-counseling, became a social activist, became religious, made Aliyah, and raised three kids. Wrote an unpublished tome about Jewish Free Will. For decades known to the Jerusalem Post readers as a frequent letter writer. Always trying to bring something original, and to avoid boring you or wasting your time with the obvious.