by James Ron | Nov 3, 2021 | Israel
In 1985, I was drafted into the Israeli military for three years. Two of those were in the explosives company of the paratroop brigade, one of Israel’s more rigorous infantry units. Zeev Jabotinski, a right-wing Zionist thinker, once wrote that the Jewish...
by James Ron | Sep 7, 2021 | Academia, career change
At the age of 54, after being a professor for 21 years (17 of them tenured), I’m going back to school. I enrolled in a master’s program in counseling psychology, with the eventual goal of earning a counseling license. It’s a long slog – could...
by James Ron | Sep 1, 2021 | Afghanistan, American Foreign Policy
I recently spoke with an old friend who directs a very large a humanitarian operation in Afghanistan. I called him up ready to commiserate about the catastrophe that was the Taliban victory, and to lament the end of international attempts to bring good government,...
by James Ron | Aug 31, 2021 | Academia, James Ron
I taught in US and Canadian higher education for 21 years, and spent six years doing my PhD, again in a US school. Now, my daughter is applying for undergraduate admission to schools in Canada and the US and I’m forced to confront the reality of the system I...
by James Ron | Jun 17, 2021 | Citizenship, Israel
What should Israelis living outside the country do about registering their children with the Israeli Population Registry as citizens? The question raises a host of moral, political, legal, financial and practical questions. I’m a citizen from way back (1976),...