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Some news a tad encouraging, and other news that’s nothing short of infuriating. Sometimes it’s hard to determine whether we have, on average, broken even. ...

 Tonight we light the first light in the eight day Festival of Chanukah. A time for joy and hope.    Credit: ebay Actually, there are two...

Things are never easy for Israel, but matters do seem to be getting tougher, day by day, with regard to the international community.  To begin...

Tumult can be identified on several fronts right now, starting with the issue of the death of PA official and terrorist Zaid Abu Ein yesterday....

It seems there is always something to contend with, a “crisis du jour,” so to speak.  I am moved to address this current “crisis” –...

It’s official.  Last night the Knesset voted – 93 in favor, no votes against and no abstentions – to disband itself.  We are in a...

Motzei Shabbat (After Shabbat) It wouldn’t do, I suppose, for the political situation to have clarity for too long. Or for the news to simply be...

It’s a long time since I have had a positive – even tentatively positive – sense of the political scene here in Israel. But here...

Let us begin today by looking briefly at the historical situation that immediately followed Israel’s Declaration of Independence and the subsequent War of Independence.  At...

Motzei Shabbat (after Shabbat) “Kaf Tet B’November” is precisely this: the 29th of November. Sixty seven years ago today, the United Nations General Assembly voted...