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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...

This phrase is usually identified as an “old Chinese curse,” while in fact it is neither old nor Chinese in origin.  What it is, clearly,...

If I said that things were good, I would be nothing but a Pollyanna.  But I do believe there are some signs here in Israel...

A bit more follow up and analysis before Shabbat... Some of the recommended actions I wrote about yesterday, and more, have been put in place. ...

  The death toll in the Nar Nof massacre has risen to five. Master Sergeant  Zidan Saif, 30 - of the Druse village of Kfar...

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,...