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   Today marks the 49th anniversary of the re-unification of Jerusalem during the Six Day War.  Here you see IDF Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren, at...

There is certainly nothing static about the current political situation, and an update seems in order. Actually, some of what is happening is good –...

There is much to report at this time of political and diplomatic turmoil, but I will follow what has become my custom and start with...

“Sof Sof!” means Finally! When last I wrote two days ago, I expected Lieberman to close on a coalition agreement with Likud within hours.  Instead it...

Israel’s political scene is in the process of significant transition.  I’ve been waiting a bit for the dust to settle, as there has been so...

I begin today with a moving “only in Israel” story.  I had written in my last posting about the way in which comrades of a...

In a thousand ways, Israel is different from all other nations in the world – and the observance of Yom HaZikaron followed immediately by Yom...

   Credit: headingupwards  Tonight at sundown Holocaust Remembrance Day begins.  In Israel, it’s Yom Hashoah V’Gevurah – a day for remembering the Holocaust and the...

Culture and Sports Minister Miri Regev is working on a proposal that would require all institutions that receive state funds, or whose facilities were built...

I am writing during Hol Hamoed – the semi-holiday, five days in duration, that falls between the two full holidays at either end of the...