Haim Watzman Penitents are like voters. They face critical choices, ones that will set the course of their lives, and must make them in a situation of uncertainty. Committed voters try to grope through the fog of rhetoric in order to understand the true wills and predilections of the candidates they must choose from; penitents [...]

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“Are you going to vote for Obama?” my 14-year-old daughter, Misgav, asked me the other day. “I don’t vote in American elections,” I replied, “because I’m Israeli.” “But you could vote, right?” “I could,” I acknowledged. “I’m also an American citizen. But the last time I voted was in 1980. Once I decided to make [...]

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