Author : Arlene

It’s a legal holiday in the US and I thought this a good time to take a break from posting.  But not possible, given the...

Yesterday I wrote about the possibility of securing Gilad Shalit without releasing terrorists, and made one or two fairly obvious suggestions. But today the news carries...

For the past two days there have been marathon sessions of the “inner cabinet” in order to reach resolution on doing a trade with Hamas...

That’s the news.  If one is devoted to Israel, it’s impossible to absorb information about what’s happening without reeling.  Or weeping.   Defense Minister Ehud Barak...

What I begin with today is a thematic follow-up to what I wrote yesterday about the mosque in Yasuf.  Whether it turns out that “radicals”...

Last Friday, in the Arab village of Yasuf, in Samaria, near the Jewish community of Tapuach, a mosque was vandalized. News reports spoke of the...

  There are two parts to the Chanukah story, and two occurrences that are celebrated: There is our history.  In the second century BCE, under the...

A few days ago, a father brought his daughter up on Har HaBayit (The Temple Mount). She is due to be married soon, and he...

The EU Council met in Brussels today, and when they were done they had passed a resolution on “The Middle East Process” that encourages the...

Or, perhaps better, redefining my focus in these postings.  I will continue to take a look at important news events.  But I have decided that...