Author : Arlene

What’s negative?  Oh, I won’t say everything. Should never say that.  But there’s a great deal that is, and the sense one gets when surveying...

Purim will be celebrated Saturday night and Sunday here, as elsewhere in the world, except for walled cities such as Jerusalem, where Shushan Purim will...

Regrettable. Pathetic. Many adjectives apply to what took place here in Israel last night at the political level: A party, the very first to do...

Briefly I want to return to the issue of what will happen vis-a-vis Iran when Obama is here — this time sharing Barry Rubin’s sardonic...

In the midst of so much that is ugly, it is a great pleasure to report this: Little Zakkai will be going home today.  On...

Update on my update: Little Zakkai has had a tough time since last I wrote — as, unquestionably, have his parents.  On Monday he successfully...

I begin with a report on little Zakkai, who indeed was operated on yesterday.  It’s been an incredibly tough haul for his parents, first because...

I had recently shared my assessment that Iran and Syria and not “peace talks” with the PLO would be the main items on the agenda...

Returning to little Zakkai for a moment.  The family has asked me to express gratitude to all those who wrote to me to say they...

Several times now I’ve run information on Zakkai, a two-year old boy in the States who had to undergo three surgeries for a fast-growing (albeit...