For the past two days there have been marathon sessions of the “inner cabinet” in order to reach resolution on doing a trade with Hamas

That’s the news.  If one is devoted to Israel, it’s impossible to absorb information about what’s happening without reeling.  Or weeping.   Defense Minister Ehud Barak

What I begin with today is a thematic follow-up to what I wrote yesterday about the mosque in Yasuf.  Whether it turns out that “radicals”

Last Friday, in the Arab village of Yasuf, in Samaria, near the Jewish community of Tapuach, a mosque was vandalized. News reports spoke of the

  There are two parts to the Chanukah story, and two occurrences that are celebrated: There is our history.  In the second century BCE, under the

A few days ago, a father brought his daughter up on Har HaBayit (The Temple Mount). She is due to be married soon, and he

The EU Council met in Brussels today, and when they were done they had passed a resolution on “The Middle East Process” that encourages the

Or, perhaps better, redefining my focus in these postings.  I will continue to take a look at important news events.  But I have decided that

I’m sorry, I’m referring to words of the prime minister, but have no other way to describe them. At the Cabinet meeting this morning, Netanyahu

The feeling one gets, on reading the reports of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s meeting today with angry leaders of Judea and Samaria communities, is that he