Levi Brackman's

1. Obama and Hilary Clinton: can Israel rely on either?

The stakes in Iraq at the moment are very high and they have a direct bearing on the United States and world security This week three prominent Jews from Hollywood, Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg, decided to host a fundraiser...

Thursday, 25 January 2007 | 1928 hits | Read more

2. Obama Should Keep his Blackberry

It was reported that the security services in the United States have asked Barack Obama to refrain from using his Blackberry device. They say that it is difficult to secure the communications that are sent from a handheld and that it could therefore...

Thursday, 20 November 2008 | 1283 hits | Read more

3. ObamaÂ’s Morality, Netanyahu Watch Out

A former Shin Bet officer told me that he left the service because he found administering the harsh interrogation techniques needed to gain life saving intelligence from detainees difficult. It would be inappropriate for me to divulge the exact...

Friday, 24 April 2009 | 1868 hits | Read more

4. Olmert's backers must also go

To assume that a team that made such disastrous and obvious blunders last summer is able to fix them is to be naïve Many of us who take interest in Israel have been shocked by what has transpired there over the last week. It is inconceivable...

Friday, 04 May 2007 | 1404 hits | Read more

5. Olmert's Immoral War

Olmert and his subordinates have handsomely earned their dismal ratings – let us hope that they now get the message and make way for new and responsible leadership to take over Polls out just this week show that 77 percent of Israelis are...

Thursday, 04 January 2007 | 1680 hits | Read more

6. On Being A Mentch

In this weeks Torah portion we read a sequence of three seemingly random and unrelated verses. Firstly it states, “If a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not wrong him. But the stranger who dwells with you shall be to you as...

Sunday, 19 March 2006 | 983 hits | Read more

7. On Being A Mentch

In this weeks Torah portion we read a sequence of three seemingly random and unrelated verses. Firstly it states, “If a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not wrong him. But the stranger who dwells with you shall be to you as...

Sunday, 19 March 2006 | 972 hits | Read more

8. Our arrogance will kills us in the end

Watching the world standing impotently by as Iran races towards acquiring nuclear weapons is terrifying. And seeing how humanity if unable to overcome the oil well it drilled in the Gulf of Mexico is humbling.  In the later case we are confronted...

Friday, 11 June 2010 | 263 hits | Read more