UncategorizedNovember 15, 2014: A Mixed BagArleneNovember 16, 2014 by ArleneNovember 16, 20140310 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
UncategorizedNovember 13, 2014: Is It Getting Better?ArleneNovember 13, 2014 by ArleneNovember 13, 20140301 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
UncategorizedNovember 11, 2014: A Day LaterArleneNovember 11, 2014 by ArleneNovember 11, 20140355 Pain compounded. The young woman who was knifed to death by a terrorist in Gush Katif yesterday – Dalia Lemkus, 26, from Tekoa – was
UncategorizedNovember 10, 2014: PerspectiveArleneNovember 10, 2014 by ArleneNovember 10, 20142 359 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,
UncategorizedNovember 7, 2014: A Brief Follow-UpArleneNovember 7, 2014 by ArleneNovember 7, 20140357 I will not be able to post again until after Shabbat, and so wanted to provide here just a bit of factual “catch-up,” as well
UncategorizedNovember 5, 2014: Never EndingArleneNovember 5, 2014 by ArleneNovember 5, 20140300 I am referring to the grief that is leveled at us, here in Israel, on a regular basis. I don’t really mean “never ending.” This
UncategorizedNovember 4, 2014: From Terrible to WorseArleneNovember 5, 2014 by ArleneNovember 5, 20140290 I do not delude myself. The international scene is not as bad as it could possibly get. Please Heaven, may we never go there. But
UncategorizedNovember 2, 2014: How Did We Get to This Place?ArleneNovember 2, 2014 by ArleneNovember 2, 20140299 Our presence here in the land goes back more than 3,000 years. We prayed for millennia, while separated from the land, to be able to
UncategorizedOctober 31, 2014: Before ShabbatArleneNovember 1, 2014 by ArleneNovember 1, 20140297 On Tuesday, my co-chair of the Legal Grounds Campaign, Jeff Daube, and I participated in a Voice of Israel radio broadcast hosted by Jeremy Gimpel
UncategorizedOctober 30, 2014: Is There No End?ArleneOctober 30, 2014 by ArleneOctober 30, 20140270 Last night there was a conference, “Israel Returns to the Temple Mount,” at the Menachem Begin Center in Jerusalem – this is an annual event