1. Back to Yad Vashem three years ago.

2. The Yad Vashem memorial on the hills west of Jerusalem is supposed to commemorate the Holocaust.

3. Yad Vashem tells us that those who believe in humanity and civilized values must come together and defend it at all costs.

4. While observed since antiquity, the name Betelgeuse is a French rendering of an Arabic name, which has been recorded as bit al-jauza or yad al-jauza

5. I recall the Asperity with which this easy out (Kushner's "God is not all-powerful") was dismissed by Yehuda Bauer, the former head of the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum, when I asked him about it in Jerusalem.