Len Zwelling

Bumble Bees and Burning Tires: Another Day In and Around the West Bank By Leonard Zwelling          Sde Eliyahu is a kibbutz that dates its origins to 1939, prior to the birth of the state of Israel. It is near the West Bank. It was settled first by German Jews who had the vision to […]

The Most Valuable Liquid in Israel Is Not Oil By Leonard Zwelling          I had always been told that in Israel it is all about the water. Nothing is more important in this bone dry land than access to water and that access is severely limited from natural sources. The mighty Jordan is a good-sized

The Road to Normalcy May Be Less Government By Leonard Zwelling          Our guide Gil says fewer and fewer Israelis participate in national elections. Especially the young. Sounds like some place else I know. There is a general sense here, I guess, that the government is unresponsive and doesn’t speak to the issues that concern

18 Holes in the Holy Land By Leonard Zwelling          A Shandah!  A blasphemy! A shameful act! So my activities in Israel on Saturday October 3 were characterized by a friend. I think not. I had driven farther to play golf in my life. Pebble Beach requires a flight to San Francisco and a long,

Tel Aviv: More Main Street Than a City at War By Leonard Zwelling          Though jet lagged from the 10+ hour flight from Newark that landed in the late afternoon in Israel, we hit the streets of Tel Aviv as soon as we checked into the lovely boutique Norman Hotel.          You are struck by

Blogging From Zion-Part 2 By Leonard Zwelling          Last year, the War in Gaza had just ended when we departed Houston for the Holy Land.          This year, it is a bit quieter. But just a bit, as ISIS is still in the neighborhood and the Russians are now bombing that neighborhood while supporting the

Why Can’t DePinho Be Like De Speaker and De Walker?: Could It Be Like Bugs In the Bugs? By Leonard Zwelling http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/25/business/international/problems-at-volkswagen-start-in-the-boardroom.html?_r=0          In yet another scandalous business story, Volkswagen has demonstrated that if it had taken the same time to design better diesel cars that it took to undermine their testing by the EPA,

ERROR IN EARLIER VERSION CORRECTED On November 9th at 6.30 pm the ERJCC will be hosting the 4th Local Literati. This event is the brain child of Marilyn Hassid and mirrors the famous Jewish Book Council. It has been created to allow local emerging authors to showcase their newly-published books in front of an erudite audience. Each

Dear Friends & Family, On November 11th at 6.30 pm the ERJCC will be hosting the 4th Local Literati. This event is the brain child of Marilyn Hassid and mirrors the famous Jewish Book Council. It has been created to allow local emerging authors to showcase their newly-published books in front of an erudite audience.

The Real Story On Page One By Leonard Zwelling          This story appeared on page 21 of the NY Times on Saturday, September 26. It reports on favorable trial results against renal cancer using a check point inhibitor (nivolumab) in one trial and cabozantinib, a tyrosine kinase inhibitor, in another. In the more dramatic finding,