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From Israel: It Must Be Better Than This!
Better on two counts. Please, read to the end. I keep coming back to the terror attack in Squirrel Hill, and to related issues of...
From Israel: Making Sense in a Frenetic World
These days, when we have barely processed information, new events demand our attention. I have been focused on the tragedy in Pittsburgh, and so turn...
From Israel: The Heart Breaks for Many Reasons
Yesterday, my heart broke over the senseless, anti-Semitic attack in Squirrel Hill that took the lives of 11 Jews, during Shabbat, while they were in...
From Israel: Appalled and Grieving!
On Shabbat, in the city of Pittsburgh, as surely all of my readers know, eleven Jews – eight men and three women, but, thank Heavens,...
From Israel: Scandalous!
I want to return to the issue of the illegal Bedouin outpost of Khan al-Ahmar. It may not seem so to some of my readers,...
From Israel: Struggle with Every Step
This past Shabbat, we read the Torah portion Lech Lecha in synagogue. In Chapter 17:7-8, the Almighty tells Avraham (emphasis added): “I will ratify My covenant...
From Israel: And Now??
This will be a “catch-up” posting to keep my readers in the loop during a process with regard to Hamas that is still unfolding. During...
From Israel: Sigh…
War? Not war? It rather depends on who we listen to, and the time of the day. On Sunday, the Security Cabinet met; the word...
From Israel: A Glimmer of Light
It is been a while since I have begun a posting with even a bit of optimism. But that, my friends, is what I want...
From Israel: Really Angry
As in “really, really…” A report, drawing on Egyptian sources, appeared very recently in Al Araby, an Arabic newspaper in London, with regard to continuing...