Author : Arlene

I would be out-and-out misrepresenting, if I said everything was great.  And if I said that you wouldn’t believe me anyway.  But what I do...

  Credit: Chabad Tonight begins the eight-day festival of Chanukah, which has two aspects to it: The story of the miracle, when – at the time...

Good news items from Israel: The Israeli company Ayala Water and Ecology utilizes plants to purify waste water.  Its phytoremediation systems are built into landscaping at...

Last night, here in Jerusalem, I attended a performance of Dames of the Dance of the Gush Katif Bride Project.   Reproduced with permission Twelve amateur women’s...

We begin today with an opinion piece from the Friday JPost magazine section, written – in 2010 – by Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo, “Israel: The...

I’m so grateful to have some good things to write about, in the face of daily anguish.  Several good things, as a matter of fact...

It’s lovely to begin with some good news:  On Friday, Jonathan Pollard was released from the federal prison in Butner, N. Carolina on parole.  He...

This post is not only being done reluctantly, my friends.  It will be very brief.  No introductory good news, again.  No analysis. I am holding...

When last I posted, I wrote that – even though I chose to pass on writing about it in that particular post – there is...

I know my readers have become accustomed to seeing a good news piece or two at the beginning of a posting.  Not today. Does not...