Mark Berch

Since 2002, Mark Berch has been providing Jewishly oriented web links to members of his shul (Tifereth Israel, a small Conservative synagogue in Washington DC where his family has been members for almost 40 years). In real life, he is a Patent Examiner.


Articles by Mark Berch

Paying the Price

Moishe Ayre Friedman attended a Holocaust denial conference in Tehran, and in response, the Vienna Orthodox school has expelled his ...

Coming to Israel

The US Reform movement is placing a major new emphasis on aliyah, with an explicit goal “to impact Israeli society.� ...

Force or Diplomacy?

Israel is told, don’t end your conflict with Syria — this from Farid Ghadry, president of the Reform Party of ...

Is the PA Disbanding?

GAZA TURMOIL: Danny Rubinstein noting that “recent events we have been witnessing in Gaza are actually the disbanding of Palestinian ...

Jew vs. Jew

The ultra-Orthodox rabbinical court, Haredi Badatz, placed a curse on both the participants in the upcoming Jerusalem Gay Pride parade ...

Poverty & Racism in Israel

POVERTY AND WORK ISSUES: Workforce participation of Ethiopian men aged 22-64 has fallen substantially in the past 10 years. (Haaretz) ...

Pack of Lies or Ugly Truth?

ISRAEL–LAND AND RESIDENTIAL ISSUES: “We are being sent abroad, quite simply, to lie,” says a senior Israeli diplomat serving in ...

The Holocaust: A Political Asset?

THE HOLOCAUST: Amira Hass argues that Israel has turned the Holocaust “into a political asset� that “serves Israel primarily in ...

Leadership & Organizations

LEADERSHIP: Benjamin Lau suggests that Moses may have been too spiritual to lead the Israelites: “heaven help a nation whose ...

Jewish News Roundup

A look at the very broad impact made by the election of Begin in 1977. (Jerusalem Post) Galia Oz, daughter ...