http://www.usefulwork.com/shark/ Current Events, Smarter Investing and Fatherhood en-us msira@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il 2008-05-12T23:48:14-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.usefulwork.com/shark/archives/010713.html Yesterday a grandmother was killed on one of the kibbutzim near Gaza by a Palestinian missile. Saturday a member of... 10713@http://www.usefulwork.com/shark/ Letter from Jerusalem 2008-05-12T23:48:14-08:00 http://www.usefulwork.com/shark/archives/010688.html We have been roiled for more than a week in diminishing silence. There has been an intense investigation of the... 10688@http://www.usefulwork.com/shark/ Letter from Jerusalem 2008-05-08T20:50:02-08:00 http://www.usefulwork.com/shark/archives/010651.html What's on our agenda this week? Israel's 60th anniversary. Intelligence officials are saying that various Palestinian groups are planning a... 10651@http://www.usefulwork.com/shark/ Letter from Jerusalem 2008-05-03T21:27:00-08:00 http://www.usefulwork.com/shark/archives/010608.html Someone out there should convince the Palestinians that their side lost the wars of 1948 and 1967. Moreover, they did... 10608@http://www.usefulwork.com/shark/ Letter from Jerusalem 2008-04-27T05:53:12-08:00 http://www.usefulwork.com/shark/archives/010600.html There is a lot of smoke in the air. No fire is apparent. The smoke may be nothing more than... 10600@http://www.usefulwork.com/shark/ Letter from Jerusalem 2008-04-24T23:20:59-08:00 http://www.usefulwork.com/shark/archives/010572.html It is tempting to yearn for the good old days of warfare, when the forces of one state fought against... 10572@http://www.usefulwork.com/shark/ Letter from Jerusalem 2008-04-20T19:55:19-08:00 http://www.usefulwork.com/shark/archives/010542.html On the verge of Passover I hear about Christian churches that celebrate a Seder. Ecumenicalism is welcome. The story of... 10542@http://www.usefulwork.com/shark/ Letter from Jerusalem 2008-04-16T00:57:20-08:00 http://www.usefulwork.com/shark/archives/010514.html A Palestinian official has complained that Israel is currently offering less than was offered in the last serious efforts at... 10514@http://www.usefulwork.com/shark/ Letter from Jerusalem 2008-04-10T10:54:54-08:00 http://www.usefulwork.com/shark/archives/010483.html The world of the ultra-Orthodox is fascinating, and varied, but largely closed to outsiders. Numerous communities live according to their... 10483@http://www.usefulwork.com/shark/ Letter from Jerusalem 2008-04-06T22:27:50-08:00 http://www.usefulwork.com/shark/archives/010466.html It is not the settlements, stupid. Remember "It's the economy, stupid," which helped Bill Clinton send George H. W. Bush... 10466@http://www.usefulwork.com/shark/ Letter from Jerusalem 2008-04-01T21:47:47-08:00 http://www.usefulwork.com/shark/archives/010448.html The tacitly agreed period of calm lasted for two weeks. It began to unravel with occasional rockets sent toward Israel,... 10448@http://www.usefulwork.com/shark/ Letter from Jerusalem 2008-03-28T21:44:24-08:00 http://www.usefulwork.com/shark/archives/010431.html Figuring out what is happening with respect to Israel's problems with the Arabs is like figuring out what is happening... 10431@http://www.usefulwork.com/shark/ Letter from Jerusalem 2008-03-25T02:21:05-08:00 http://www.usefulwork.com/shark/archives/010396.html It seems that Israeli media never gets things quite right when they report about the Palestinian economy. Two sons of... 10396@http://www.usefulwork.com/shark/ Letter from Jerusalem 2008-03-19T09:38:37-08:00 http://www.usefulwork.com/shark/archives/010363.html We received a text message from Mattan about the killing at the religious academy while having dinner on the south... 10363@http://www.usefulwork.com/shark/ Letter from Jerusalem 2008-03-15T04:37:17-08:00 http://www.usefulwork.com/shark/archives/010279.html The Secretary General of the United Nations has condemned Palestinians for directing their rockets against Israeli civilians, and Israel for... 10279@http://www.usefulwork.com/shark/ Letter from Jerusalem 2008-03-01T21:36:21-08:00