Author : Arlene

Ah that I were a mind reader.  But, alas, I am not.  So I garner as much information as I can, and rely on my...

It passes for “diplomatic” news of a sort, but consists in good part of unmitigated nonsense. The World Economic Forum in Jordan has just ended;...

There are several items of news requiring attention that can, in one respect or another, knock you off balance.  But let us start with this...

The notion that there can be a viable negotiation process that will result in peace with “two states side-by-side” persists whatever the overwhelming evidence to...

There are multiple ways in which enormous strength is required of the Israeli government now.  In no situation is this more the case than with...

The NYTimes ran a piece yesterday in which it directly quoted a “senior Israeli official” — who according to the JPost had contacted the Times...

Tomorrow night begins the holiday of Shavuot (one day here in Israel, two days elsewhere), which celebrates the receiving of the Torah (or the Commandments)...

To a variety of matters, each briefly.  I begin with the Borovsky family — the widow and five orphans left behind when Evyatar was brutally...

With all that remains disturbing (and I’ll get to it), there are also good things happening within the government and the Knesset.  Good people who...

Jerusalem.  And today we are celebrating Yom Yerushalayim — Jerusalem Day — the anniversary of the liberation by Israeli troops of eastern (historic Jewish) Jerusalem,...