Tonight we light the first candle of Chanukah.  And so I want to put aside our day-to-day worries about the world, in order to  consider

I begin with something that I address with hesitation, because it’s an internal Israeli affair and I prefer to keep such matters in house.  But

Or perhaps I should ask, ARE they thinking? Let’s start with our prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu.  As I write, the Mughrabi Bridge has been opened,

Before I delve more deeply into subjects already discussed, I want to share the link to the latest video of Danny Ayalon, Deputy Foreign Minister. 

I’m reading about the fact that Newt Gingrich is leading the polls among the Republican presidential candidate contenders, and I’m hearing the things he’s saying. 

When I wrote two days ago about what Alan Dershowitz said at the Begin Center, I expressed some surprise, relative to one particular issue. What

Last night I attended a multi-part event at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center, with the theme “Defending Israel and International Law”: It was, first, a

Last week I responded to the ludicrous statement of Obama, that “this administration has done more in terms of the security of the state of

That’s what can happen to your head as you try to make sense out of the news — for it is forever shifting and changing. 

A goof, which a handful of readers caught and which I correct here: The PA became a member of UNESCO, not UNICEF.  Sorry.  It may