Michael Widlanski
ARTICLES BY: Michael Widlanski
Wine and Bread: Finding the Balance
Men, women, and scripture love a good drink even more than a good piece of bread. We know this from the Bible and from common sense,...
What Newsweek’s Story Proves About U.S. Intelligence
A magazine charge - supposedly based on "U.S. intelligence sources" - that Israel spied on then-Vice President Al Gore tells us a very important story -...
From Obama to Olmert: The Sad State of Today’s Leaders
Leaders seek a legacy, an experience or heritage that defines their time in office, and even those who fail at their jobs succeed in leaving...
Opinion: Obama Revives the Right-Wing Conspiracy
When a man or woman is mugged on the street or afflicted by disease, the right response is never to pretend everything is fine and nothing...
How Being Jewish Affects Making Peace
What does "Being Jewish" have to do with Arab-Israeli peace? Why does Israel insist Palestinians accept Israel as a Jewish state? What causes Palestinians and other Arabs...
Obama and the Difference Between Prophetic and Pathetic Leaders
All leaders are human, and they all make mistakes, but really good leaders study the errors of others and admit and learn from their own...
Ehud Olmert: Arrogance On the High Wire
Like a supremely confident acrobat, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has had an unusual 40-year-plus career walking the narrow ledge between what is legal...
Ex-Prime Minster Olmert Faces Jail for Bribery, Judge Rebukes Claims of Witch Hunt
An Israeli court convicted ex-prime minister Ehud Olmert and other top officials for taking bribes in the most far-reaching corruption trial in Israel's history. It was...
Ehud Olmert’s Political Chess Game
Politicians, like chess-masters, have strategies and tactics with cute names."Ž Late Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon used a variation of what we might call "The Pawn's...
Demography vs. Demagoguery: Europe vs. Israel
People who predict population trends need to learn from weather forecasters: when your forecasts are wrong more than right, go home before they lock you...
Denmark, Kashrut, and Anti-Semitism
Centuries after Shakespeare said "Something's rotten in the state of Denmark," we have hard proof of a big stink in Denmark and nearby Scandinavian countries. Only days...
Barack Obama’s Transformational Moment
President Barack Obama said he did not want just to be president but a "transformational president," and as he starts his sixth year in office,...
Opinion: Breaking Records With Shimon Peres
Israel's president Shimon Peres just set a "Guinness world record" for the world's largest civics class, teaching more than 9,000 high school students in 215...
Ariel Sharon: The End of the Romance (OBITUARY)
Ariel Sharon was really two men: a brave and inventive army field commander turned politician who was unflappable in war and unscrupulous in peace. Ariel Sharon...
