July/August 2014
One might expect this column to be the “we’ve heard this song before” or “déjà vu all over again” about the battle currently waging between Israel and the Hamas terrorists. It could. We have been here before. Hamas relentlessly fires rockets on Israel, wantonly …
June 2014
The only surfing I do is with a remote control. And that’s what I was doing the other night. I came across the finals, or near finals, of “The Voice,” “Dancing with the Stars,” and “American Idol.” A few months ago, attention was drawn to “The Sing Off” and in a …
May 2014
The news media sometimes (!) distorts reality, ignores reality, or can’t see reality because of the flash appeal of a related or tangential story.
Many of us were shocked and disgusted by reports of masked militia standing outside of synagogues in eastern Ukraine distributing le…
April 2014
One of the problems writing a column in a monthly publication is timing. Even if I submit the column at the last possible moment, there is still a week-to-10 days before the paper will be in your mailbox (provided that the USPS cooperates and the delivery is timely). I worry that…
March 2014
Shmuel Sisso was born in Morocco and moved to Israel. As a preeminent lawyer, he built and ran a very successful law firm in Israel and spent some years as partner of a New York law firm. Years later, he entered Israel’s diplomatic corps and served as Consul General in New York…
