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I don’t like making predictions about the news. There are too many variables. Too many players. There’s the Hand of G-d who intervenes in ways that we can never forecast.  But I’ve been a newsman since the 1970s and I’ve covered comparable stories over many decades. Some stories blow up. Some blow over. Sometimes we see signs in advance, so I will suggest a few things to watch that may give us clarity for 2022.

Before voting for Trump again, or welcoming his Orthodox Jewish advisors back with open arms, or even voting for Bibi again, their clumsy diplomacy should be held against them

Would we spend the rest of our lives wondering why we’d hadn’t contacted the myriad of magical figures living in our midst?

Venerable individuals still among us share their recollections of personal encounters with yesteryear's giants

“Loser, you’re a loser,” my classmates taunt, pointing at my cleft lip while I shrink into hopeless oblivion

I would find myself crying not for Kaila and her family, but for the simplicity of my own life before this all happened

Dani Dayan is the departing consul general of Israel in New York

Rabbi Aryeh Lightstone is senior advisor to US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman