Lectures on jewish and zionist issues

"Motech” is the Hebrew word for sweetheart and refers to personal services geared to making us feel better.Israel has divided the work market into four categories: Hi-tech, low tech, no tech and “motech” (the Hebrew word for sweetheart). “Motech” refers to very personal services geared to making us feel better. Hi-tech of course gets the most publicity because it is dramatic and...

American Jewry is different. There is little in classical Zionist analyses relevant for the American Jewish experience.This is why American Jews, despite being the most important and vital supporters of the Zionist enterprise, are usually indifferent to axiomatic Zionist arguments and contemptuous of Israeli politicians preaching the classical Zionist message. This lecture critically examines...

Energy is a Jewish issue. The greatest threats to the Jewish People derive from Persian Gulf oil revenues.

A strategy for Jewish survival in the 21st century must revolve around a revitalized Israeli-Diaspora relationship. The driving force behind this new relationship should be the Diaspora, which should take a larger responsibility for addressing the challenges of Jewish survival.  This approach would replace the present relationship in which Diaspora efforts act as a supplemental force...

Why the Israeli electoral system is no worse than others and should not be changed.22 countries have been continuously democratic since 1948. They include: Austria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Costa Rica, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, France and the United...

Examines where the Jewish People are, how they got there and where they should be going to surviveJohn Stuart Mill wrote: “It often happens that the universal belief of one age, a belief from which no one could be free without extraordinary effort of genius or courage, becomes to a subsequent one so palpable an absurdity that the only difficulty is, to imagine how such an idea could...

Successful information campaigns are marketing. “Hasbara” is explanation which is selling. Trying to sell before you market is ineffective.What is the nature of a successful information campaign?  Information campaigns are not like VCRs.  They do not have pause buttons.  If Israel and World Jewry had been consistently informing the world of the corruption, sexism,...

In the 21st century Jews have the ability to realize their human potential without sacrificing their Jewish identity.This lecture posits that the 21st century can be the Jewish century.  The century in which Jewish individuals can realize their human potential without sacrificing Jewish ambitions and realize their Jewish potential without sacrificing human ambitions. No other people...

REJECTING: 1) demand to de-Zionize Israel as prerequisite for Peace; 2) expulsion Israel’s Arab citizens as prerequisite for ZionismThis lecture is a rejection of the Post-Zionist and Arab call to de-Zionize Israel as the pre-requisite for Peace, as well as the racist call to expel all of Israel’s Arab citizens.  It makes the case that Israel can be both a Jewish State and...

Zionism developed on the background of 19th century European civilization in response to the unique conditions of 19th century European Jewry. It drew inspiration from the 2,000-year-old desire to return to Zion but was not synonymous with that desire. It was a 19th century political development and is inadequate to the needs of the 21st century for the following reasons.half of Israel’s...

The richest per capita countries in the world are for the most part ones with few natural resources (EU, Japan, Korea, Taiwan etc.)  The poorest per capita counties are rich in natural resources (Africa, South America etc. The richest per capita states in the USA are resource poor (Connecticut, Massachusetts etc.); the poorest are resource rich (West Virginia, Kentucky etc.) Resource...