June 29, 2015: The Horrors and the Hope
Never do I relinquish hope, my friends. Not even in the midst of growing horrors. And so I begin here with something we did right:...
Author : Arlene
June 24, 2015: Beyond
Beyond all comprehension. Beyond what is remotely tolerable. Integrity? This, of course, we cannot not speak of at all. In the end, we can only speak...
June 23, 2015: Never Easy
But we might wish it were not quite so difficult. We begin with the report on the Gaza war of 2014 prepared by the UN...
June 21, 2015: Again…and again…and
Credit: Facebook On Friday, Danny Gonen, 25, had gone with his friend, Netanel Hadad, for a dip in the Ein Buvin spring near Dolev (a...
June 19, 2015: Ups and Downs
Lots of “downs,” for sure, but we have to also seek out the “ups” wherever we can find them. ~~~~~~~~~~ American-born Michael Oren – historian, immediate past...
June 17, 2015: Ongoing
It’s obvious that many of the happenings I write about, rather than being discrete events, are snapshots of a continuing situation. And so, I must...
June 16, 2015: Slander without End
Promoting lies about Israel’s “villainy” has become almost routine in many agencies and many parts of the world. Sometimes it reaches proportions that are so...
June 15, 2015: Dealing As It Comes
In my book, no issue in the news takes precedence over the negotiations with Iran. I feel as if I keep repeating myself, and yet...
June 11, 2015: Sharing
We mourn his passing of David (Dudu) Rotem, who suffered a fatal heart attack on Monday. Rotem – a lawyer – had served as a...
June 8, 2015: Fighting with Head High
“Imagine if there was a country you had no personal connection to, that people accused of being an apartheid state. This state was constantly condemned...