Author : Arlene

Yesterday I wrote about Holocaust remembrance.  Today I want to expand on this, for the day being observed right now is most properly called Yom...

Never Forget. Never Again.  Words of enormous import that must be addressed with utmost seriousness. Tonight begins Yom Hashoah — Holocaust Remembrance Day.   And...

It passes for diplomacy these days, but its hallmarks are pretense, illogic, and a self-serving posture.  Not an aberration, it has become something of a...

I’m back to normal (whatever that means) after Pesach, but don’t see that anything of enormous import seems to have happened over the holiday week....

We start with the good. Little Zakkai’s surgery on his spine was yesterday and the word is fantastic:  The surgeons were able to work with...

I begin with a housekeeping matter: In my last posting, I included a URL for a marvelous YouTube video that consisted of a message from...

“With the Approach of Pesach” Pesach begins on Friday night, April 6 and continues through the following Saturday night.  Time for celebration and time to...

Motzei Shabbat (after Shabbat) First, an update for little Zakkai from his parents: “After an agonizing few days (on top of the 6 agonizing weeks...

First matters first: I have an update on Zakkai, the baby boy with the tumor along his spine and in his thoracic cavity, that is...

It was last Thursday that the UN Human Rights Council voted to send a “mission” to investigate the way in which the “settlements” infringe on...