So much is opaque these days — with diverse news reports often contradicting each other, and a great deal that remains hidden under the surface. ...

Prime Minister Netanyahu provided a “sort-of” denial yesterday, with regard to rumors of a de facto building freeze in Jerusalem:  Obama and European leaders, he...

Today I attended a lecture at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs given by Dr. Avi Beker.  Former  Secretary- General of the World Jewish Congress,...

Confirmation that peace is not around the corner here.  And confirmation of the error in thinking — as Obama insists — that failure to achieve...

Or, possibly, less than half-way.  Not a total cave from our prime minister.  He’s taken one good stand, on one very important issue.  But for...

Last night it was fireworks, as well as various ceremonies and celebrations.   Today there were impressive jet formations overhead.   Oh, and we cannot...

   This is being written hours before Yom Ha’Atzmaut — Israeli Independence Day– will begin.  Regularly I mention this:  There is a siren sounded as...

With nightfall comes the wail, and Israelis stand at attention for a minute:  Yom HaZikaron, the Day of Remembrance of those who have fallen in...

Motzei Shabbat (after Shabbat) There’s a painful amount of news that is most decidedly not good, and, now that Shabbat has ended, as I had...

Good when there is the possibility of sharing some potentially positive information.  And it is this that I will focus on today. Ron Lauder, president of...