Other Writing
YA Outside the Lines
Interview, 2/9/24
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Book Q & A
with Deborah Kalb, 12/18/23
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Author R&R with Michael J. Cooper
In Reference to Murder Blog, 12/6/23
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Chanticleer 10 Question Author Interview Series
Chanticleer International Book Awards, 12/1/23
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Writing About War in a Time of War
Mystery Writers of America, 12/4/23
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Guest Blog post: My Favorite Year In Jerusalem – 1967
A Writer of History, 11/30/23
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Guest Blog post: Interview with Evan Sinclair - between Wages of Empire & Crossroads of Empire
Murder is Everywhere, 11/13/23
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Guest Blog post: How I Switched from Writing Medical Journal Articles to Historical Fiction
Mystery Fanfare, 11/2/23
A meandering autobiographical account of the author's writing journey that actually references The National Inquirer!
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Rabbi Harold Schulweis, Israel and the peace process
Jewish Journal, 2/9/15
In a touching eulogy in the JJ (Dec 18, 2014), Rabbi Harold Schulweis was aptly described by Rabbi Ed Feinstein, his friend and successor as senior rabbi at Congregation Valley Beth Shalom as "the most successful and influential synagogue leader in his generation, a public intellectual who redefined what it is to be a Jew, an author and passionate orator who met injustices and suffering with action."
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One state or two? There's only one right answer
JWeekly.com, 9/5/13
It's been almost a half-century since I was an 18-year-old American Jew in Jerusalem for a year after high school. Toward the end of that year, I thrilled to the Israel Defense Forces' 1967 victory in the remarkably and thankfully short Six-Day War under the leadership of Gen. Yitzhak Rabin.
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Post-Obama Visit, What's Next for Peace between Palestine, Israel?
River Cities' Reader, 4/10/13
"His speech carried broad historical perspectives, a fair and moral worldview and showed warmth and friendship toward Israel, allaying fears that he was somehow anti-Israeli," says Cooper, the author of "Foxes in the Vineyard," an Indie Publishing grand prize-winning novel that explores Israel's birth through historical fiction.
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Passover Fable Provides Metaphor for Conflict
River Cities' Reader, 3/8/13
"Khad Gadya," the old Aramaic fable sung at the end of the Passover Seder, is often associated with a sense of relief that the long evening is finally over. It also helps that it comes after four glasses of wine.
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Four-Year-Old Asil Arara: An Unreported Story
Common Dreams, 1/23/12
A beautiful four-year-old girl with braids, Asil Arara had been playing in a field not far from her home in Anata, and not far from the Separation Wall and the Israeli settlement of Anatot. In the quiet of midday, her ten-year-old cousin heard shots and came running.
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In the name of peace, 'Chad Gadya machine' must stop
Jewish Bulletin of Northern California, 1/5/12
"Chad Gadya"—that old Aramaic fable sung at the end of the Passover seder—is often associated with a sense of relief that the long evening is finally over. It also helps that it comes after four glasses of wine.
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Rabin's Broken Dream and the Banality of Bibi
Jewish Currents, 4/25/11
A spectral conversation with the ghosts of Yitzhak and Leah Rabin at their gravesite in Jerusalem highlighting Rabin's assassination, an event that marked the death of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. It also marks the beginning of the decline of democratic institutions in Israel and the rise of the violent messianic political right in Israel. Still among us, they threaten everything that is dear to rational, peace-minded Israelis. Indeed, these elements now occupy the corridors of power in the Israeli government and the situation is more dire and hopeless than ever.
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The wall—where protection ends and collective punishment begins
JWeekly.com, 6/27/08
These are not easy times to be a duty-abiding doctor in Israel. One could say we've hit a wall.
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With Achad Ha'am on the Road to Rammalah—An Encounter with the Father of Cultural Zionism
Jewish Currents, 6/1/08
I stand beneath the archway of the YMCA on King David Street in West Jerusalem, warm in the morning sun as I wait for the taxi that will take me to Ramallah. My transportation and lodging have been arranged by the Palestine Children's Relief Fund (PCRF), a non-governmental organization that coordinates care for a wide range of medical needs of children under occupation.
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