Author : Arlene

Sometimes a situation is so horrific that it renders one speechless.  Such was the attack by Israeli Arabs on innocent Jews praying in Jerusalem this...

I start today with the link to the Dry Bones Blog of Yaakov Kirschen.  Most of you are probably familiar with Kirschen’s absolutely on-the-mark political...

First, a correction:  When I wrote about the tragedy in Gush Etzion the other day, I accidentally wrote “Gush Katif,” which no longer exists.  Thanks...

Pain compounded.  The young woman who was knifed to death by a terrorist in Gush Katif yesterday – Dalia Lemkus, 26, from Tekoa – was...

I must start with the breaking news, all of it obscenely ugly, before I go to what I had intended to write today: A young woman,...

I will not be able to post again until after Shabbat, and so wanted to provide here just a bit of factual “catch-up,” as well...

I am referring to the grief that is leveled at us, here in Israel, on a regular basis.  I don’t really mean “never ending.” This...

I do not delude myself. The international scene is not as bad as it could possibly get.  Please Heaven, may we never go there. But...

Our presence here in the land goes back more than 3,000 years. We prayed for millennia, while separated from the land, to be able to...

On Tuesday, my co-chair of the Legal Grounds Campaign, Jeff Daube, and I participated in a Voice of Israel radio broadcast hosted by Jeremy Gimpel...