From Israel: How Not to Wage War
Our government’s premature willingness to stop the attack on Hamas yesterday was distressing and infuriating. Several people confessed to me that they found it nauseating....
Author : Arlene
From Israel: War in the Blink of an Eye!
How many times in the last weeks have I written that war with Hamas in Gaza was inevitable and surely coming? And how many times...
From Israel: What Are They Thinking??
“They” refers collectively to Prime Minister Netanyahu, the Security Cabinet, the IDF, and perhaps other persons in leadership roles making decisions on Gaza right now....
From Israel: Eyes Ahead, part 2
Yesterday I moved to get a posting out without delay, in order to begin to provide perspective on the election. But of course there is...
From Israel: Eyes Ahead and Moving Past It!
I am, clearly, not happy about the Democratic win in the House. But I do not see this as indicative of a “blue wave” that...
From Israel: Stand Against Hysteria!
I was not going to post again before the midterm election tomorrow, but I must. For today I was directly exposed to some of the...
From Israel: It Must Be Better Than This!
Better on two counts. Please, read to the end. I keep coming back to the terror attack in Squirrel Hill, and to related issues of...
From Israel: Making Sense in a Frenetic World
These days, when we have barely processed information, new events demand our attention. I have been focused on the tragedy in Pittsburgh, and so turn...
From Israel: The Heart Breaks for Many Reasons
Yesterday, my heart broke over the senseless, anti-Semitic attack in Squirrel Hill that took the lives of 11 Jews, during Shabbat, while they were in...
From Israel: Appalled and Grieving!
On Shabbat, in the city of Pittsburgh, as surely all of my readers know, eleven Jews – eight men and three women, but, thank Heavens,...