October 20, 2025

A Tearful Homecoming

By David Haldane Oct. 20, 2025     They’re back! Defying global fears that the war in Gaza would never end, all 20 of the surviving […]
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October 6, 2025

Hate Invades an Idyllic Philippine Island

By David Haldane Oct. 6, 2025     It feels like something a Nazi might say. “If Chabad House is legal,” Maria Tokong wonders on Facebook, […]
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September 14, 2025

Wailing at the Western Wall

By David Haldane Sept. 14, 2025   It hit me like a stone. One minute I was standing awkwardly at Jerusalem’s historic Western Wall wondering what […]
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August 25, 2025

A Bleeding Nation

By David Haldane August 25, 2025     The pain is everywhere. You see it on the posters massed in random places bearing the pictures of […]
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June 22, 2025

All Flights Delayed while Israel Saves the World

  By David Haldane June 23, 2025     I expected to be writing this column from Israel. All the t’s were crossed and the i’s […]
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May 5, 2025

What I Hope for in a New Pope

  By David Haldane May 5, 2025     It’s almost never suitable to speak ill of the dead. Especially when the dead you’re speaking of […]
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April 28, 2025

To Believe or Not To Believe?

  By David Haldane April 28, 2025     I have never been a staunch believer. Nor am I a confirmed atheist. Instead, I have consistently […]
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April 21, 2025

Israel Thriving in the Philippines

  By David Haldane April 21, 2025     This was going to be a column about Middle Eastern politics. How suffering Gazans had finally risen […]
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March 17, 2025

Israelis Misbehaving or Filipino Antisemitism?

  By David Haldane March 17, 2025     My first reaction was astonishment. Followed almost immediately by alarm. Not just the kind that gently wakes […]
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February 10, 2025

Sinning Priests

By David Haldane Feb. 10, 2025     I don’t even remember the story. It was published back in 2003 when, as a staff writer for […]
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February 2, 2025

The Jews of Siargao Island

  By David Haldane February 2, 2025     It started at an airport. Strolling through Mactan-Cebu International Airport last month, I noticed a bearded man […]
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January 6, 2025

Filipino Cardinal Leaps Aboard a Sinking Ship

  By David Haldane Jan. 6, 2025     I thought I was done with this subject for a while. Two weeks ago, I wrote a […]
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