When opting out from partnership is so easy, every minor disagreement is perceived as a major catastrophe and irreparable disaster.

Every interpretation is but an introduction to another interpretation, and that is how Talmud pages are printed.

I guess I am doomed to remain an outsider to the end, lacking as I am the indispensable qualities of an academic insider: school loyalty, conformity to the procedure, and readiness to obey by the school-endorsed criteria of cohesion and consistency.

Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy.

The descent of Israel from the morally towering position of a 'light for the nations' to the lowest of the low and one of the last relics of bygone shameful times of merciless imperialism, conquest, exploitation is on the cards.

Everybody is in trouble, including the up-and-coming economic miracles of China, Brazil or India.

Human attention tends to be focused on the satisfactions relationships are hoped to bring, precisely because somehow they have not been truly satisfactory. And if they do satisfy, the price of this satisfaction has often been found to be unacceptable.