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I confess it: For me, the secular new year is marked chiefly by the need to remember to write the correct date on my checks...

Sometimes it feels as if it’s impossible to keep track of news events without a score card, so quickly does the situation shift.   A major...

As I wrote last night, the three terrorists who had hit Rabbi Chai in the drive-by shooting have been killed by the IDF.  Of the...

Motzei Shabbat (after Shabbat)  “The pain and the pride” The funeral of Rabbi Meir Avshalom Chai was held yesterday, with thousands in attendance.  What impressed me most...

It’s a legal holiday in the US and I thought this a good time to take a break from posting.  But not possible, given the...

Yesterday I wrote about the possibility of securing Gilad Shalit without releasing terrorists, and made one or two fairly obvious suggestions. But today the news carries...

For the past two days there have been marathon sessions of the “inner cabinet” in order to reach resolution on doing a trade with Hamas...

That’s the news.  If one is devoted to Israel, it’s impossible to absorb information about what’s happening without reeling.  Or weeping.   Defense Minister Ehud Barak...

What I begin with today is a thematic follow-up to what I wrote yesterday about the mosque in Yasuf.  Whether it turns out that “radicals”...

Last Friday, in the Arab village of Yasuf, in Samaria, near the Jewish community of Tapuach, a mosque was vandalized. News reports spoke of the...