Transcending Our Crises!!adminJune 15, 2025June 15, 2025by adminJune 15, 2025June 15, 202500It’s never over. Lurking behind each crisis is yet another awaiting its opportunity to take center stage. This is inevitable,...Read more
As the World Spins, So Our Heads!!adminJune 6, 2025June 6, 2025by adminJune 6, 2025June 6, 202507All of the news is not bad (although, unfortunately, a good deal is). What it is perhaps paramount to note...Read more
Though This Sustains Us…adminJune 2, 2025June 2, 2025by adminJune 2, 2025June 2, 2025014It is an article of faith for me and many others: Israel would not be here if not for the...Read more
Yerushalayim, Our Chief Joy!!adminMay 26, 2025May 26, 2025by adminMay 26, 2025May 26, 2025019In the midst of the warfare and turmoil that we are currently coping with, it is important not to neglect...Read more
Not To Be Endured!!adminMay 26, 2025May 26, 2025by adminMay 26, 2025May 26, 2025016There is so very much we should not have to endure. But I begin by marking the horrendous terrorist murder...Read more
Barely To Be Believed!!adminMay 20, 2025May 20, 2025by adminMay 20, 2025May 20, 2025031There are a great many stories about Israelis who have demonstrated a core of inner strength, a resilience, an embrace...Read more
Separating the Joy from the Bad Stuff!!adminMay 18, 2025May 20, 2025by adminMay 18, 2025May 20, 2025039I was going to entitle this posting “You Know What They Say About Smoke…” But because I want to celebrate...Read more
We Could Have Seen It Coming!!adminMay 10, 2025May 10, 2025by adminMay 10, 2025May 10, 2025044Before Donald Trump was inaugurated on January 20, Steve Witkoff, whom Trump had designated as his Middle East Envoy, came...Read more
Hold Tight!! Very Tight!!adminMay 6, 2025May 6, 2025by adminMay 6, 2025May 6, 2025045When things get tough (which is most of the time these days), we Israelis know what to do: We keep...Read more
Look! How Marvelous Our People Are!!adminMay 3, 2025May 3, 2025by adminMay 3, 2025May 3, 2025043Marvelous because we are never defeated and emerge from attack even stronger. The arson set in multiple localities yesterday was...Read more
Thus Have We Been Brought This Far!!adminMay 1, 2025May 1, 2025by adminMay 1, 2025May 1, 2025041Last night (Tuesday), with the sounding of a siren we began the observance of Yom Hazikaron – Memorial Day. Always...Read more
Look Back, Turn Forward!!adminApril 24, 2025April 24, 2025by adminApril 24, 2025April 24, 2025048Tonight, the 27th of Nissan, begins Yom Hashoah in Israel – officially Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day. (When the...Read more