Ilan Manor
By Ilan Manor
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Opinion Does Israel Need a Gay Lobby?
The recent Israeli elections ended with a predictable scene: a victory speech delivered by Benjamin Netanyahu to hundreds of Likud party supporters. But if this moment of triumph appeared to be a foregone conclusion, there was much that was new — and alarming — about this recent election campaign. It saw the birth of a…
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Opinion Hamas, Hedonism and the Banality of Attack
It was Woody Allen’s split screen in the 1977 classic “Annie Hall” that gave the world an inside look at Jewish family meals. I was attending such a meal Saturday, November 17, in Tel Aviv when, between my aunt’s gossip about her neighbor and my uncle’s analysis of his ulcer, sirens rang out warning of…
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