Reflections on the new times we’re in, some of the hot issues, and this week’s Torah portion.

Reflections on the new times we’re in, some of the hot issues, and this week’s Torah portion.
The ICC just issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing him of forcibly transferring Ukrainian children and teenagers into Russian territory in some grand wartime kidnapping scheme.
Someone should remind Bibi of the promises he made last November: “to act to lower the flames of public discourse; to heal the rifts… to restore the internal peace within.”
A new Israeli invention – rainwater storage tanks to be placed on residential buildings and controlled by a computerized system – may reduce the load on the drainage systems in cities, thereby helping to minimize the dangerous floods Israel has encountered in the recent winters.
A poll released by Gallup on March 16 found that, for the first time, Democrats have become more sympathetic to the Palestinians than the Israelis.