Author : Arlene

It’s certainly not beyond the realm of possibility that PA president Mahmoud Abbas, even as he continues to insist that his conditions for entering direct...

Motzei Shabbat (After Shabbat) It’s been fairly quiet on our border with Gaza, until the last couple of days.  It was, of course, only a...

It’s nothing but political theater that we’re witnessing, but theater with heavy implications. Setting the scene: Netanyahu has been grandly announcing to the world, “We’re ready.  We’ll...

I am here and functioning.  Intense summer heat, grandchildren sleeping over… other writing to be done… With it all, I took a look each day...

I begin today with a link to a shortened version (a trailer) to a new video called, “For the Sake of Nakba,” produced by the...

Tisha B’Av is a complex day.   A time for mourning, with the very painful recitation of Eicha (Lamenations) and the reading of Kinnot (mournful elegies...

Tonight begins a time of fasting, and of mourning.  This is primarily for the destruction of the two Temples in Jerusalem, but our tradition tells...

A correction:  Congressman Mark Kirk of IL is running for the US Senate, but he has not yet achieved that position.  Thus, my reference to...

As I write, it appears that we have won the day with regard to the Libyan ship that had been headed for Gaza.  Last report...

It’s helpful sometimes to start with positive news.  We should never think that it’s all bad. The Jerusalem District Planning and Construction Committee has approved the...