This is not an uncommon refrain for me these days:  This posting must be short because other considerations are pulling at me.  I did want

A couple of very significant pieces of information have been uncovered in the extensive IDF/Shin Bet operation for the rescue of the three kidnapped students

Motzei Shabbat (after Shabbat) And fear.  And fury.  And a terrible sense of déjà vu. Late Thursday evening, three boys disappeared.  They are Eyal Yifrach

Credit: NOAA   In my last posting I wrote about “rays of light,” and indeed they do exist.  But I would be remiss indeed if

More and more it seems, the nations of the world are arrayed against us:  Israel is criticized for not accepting a Fatah-Hamas unity government, for

Shavuot has come and gone and before we go into Shabbat tomorrow night, I want to return to the issue of the PA-Hamas government in

Last night, I had written my post, which spoke about my unease regarding the possibility of US support for the Fatah-Hamas unity government.  What I

In spite of well-founded predictions that this would never happen, a Fatah-Hamas unity government was sworn in today in Ramallah, to much fanfare.  It is

Today was Yom Yerushalayim – the day marking the reunification of Jerusalem 47 years ago, when, in the course of the Six Day War, we

Painful going.  There is no respite. Yesterday afternoon, there was an anti-Semitic terrorist shooting in the Jewish Museum in Belgium.    Credit: Getty Three people were killed on