"When Scott Lerner returned from Israel, he stayed in a YMCA. He did not particularly want to stay in a YMCA, but he had no good alternative. ... Once he had friends in this town, but that was three years ago. In between had come the war, in between had come the oil embargo. He did not know how … [Read more...]
These Do I Remember – COVID-19 and the Yom Kippur War (Part 2)
(Continued from my previous post.) We'll be safe here, the director of the Albright Institute for Archaeological Research told me, the night of the day the Yom Kippur War began. And we were. On that Yom Kippur--October 6, 1973--Egypt and Syria had launched a coordinated attack across the … [Read more...]
These Do I Remember – COVID-19 and the Yom Kippur War (Part 1)
How quickly it all came upon us. Not that we couldn't have seen it coming--we knew what COVID-19 was doing to Italy, which is a whole lot closer to us than China. Yet we continued to deny. Even last week, I still imagined it likely that the bookstore launch of Intimate Alien: The Hidden Story … [Read more...]
UFOs in Israel – Aliens, the “Other,” and Dr. Tehiya Eshet
Tell me quick--what UFO event happened at Ahihud? At Shikmona? Kadima? Yatzitz? You don't know? I didn't either, and truth be told I still don't. I'd probably have trouble even finding these places on a map of Israel. They belong to a world that's long fascinated me but into which I've had … [Read more...]
From Judaism to Islam – Margaret Marcus, Maryam Jameelah (Part 3)
(Continued from last week's post.) Here's what Deborah Baker writes in the afterword to her book The Convert, on Maryam Jameelah who was once Margaret Marcus--the Jewish girl from New York who converted to Islam, moved to Pakistan, and became an eloquent spokesperson for traditional Islam's case … [Read more...]
