Author : Arlene

Tomorrow night begins Rosh Hashana. This is a time of accountings. We are bidden to do a heshbon nefesh — a spiritual accounting. As a...

I begin with a sigh… which might easily turn into a moan. There it is again. Yesterday, Kofi Annan, in his last address to the...

It seems sometimes a rule of thumb that if I wait a day, the news changes. So it is with what I reported yesterday, from...

After a hiatus necessitated by brief illness, I will touch upon a variety of subjects here with more to follow soon. It seems as if...

Foreign Minister Livni is in Washington and yesterday met with Sec. of State Rice. When a joint press conference was held, Livni made the statement...

PA President Abbas (Fatah) and PA Prime Minister Haniyeh (Hamas) on Monday announced that Hamas and Fatah are going to be forming a national unity...

I would like to focus today on an issue that many will see as controversial, but which must be dealt with: MK Effie Eitam (National...

Sometimes I write about the failure of people on the left to face reality. But today I am forced to write about what seems to...

There’s a stepping back now: Mahmoud Abbas is saying today that the Bahraini paper El-Halij misunderstood his statement about a prisoner trade; he says there...

None of this has been confirmed yet — the word is coming via reports from Arab papers. In one version PA President Mahmoud Abbas provided...