November 11, 2014: A Day Later
Pain compounded. The young woman who was knifed to death by a terrorist in Gush Katif yesterday – Dalia Lemkus, 26, from Tekoa – was...
November 10, 2014: Perspective
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,...
November 7, 2014: A Brief Follow-Up
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...
November 5, 2014: Never Ending
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...
November 4, 2014: From Terrible to Worse
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...
November 2, 2014: How Did We Get to This Place?
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...
October 31, 2014: Before Shabbat
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...
October 30, 2014: Is There No End?
Last night there was a conference, “Israel Returns to the Temple Mount,” at the Menachem Begin Center in Jerusalem – this is an annual event...
October 29, 2014: Standing Tall
The media here in recent days has been full of observations about the growing rift between Israel and the US, or, more accurately, between the...
October 26, 2014: Tough
The word “tough” has different meanings, and I am actually using it in more than one sense in this posting. The first meaning – difficult...