This issue is so important, and so complex, that I just re-thought my decision to skip a day in posting, in order to address this. Truth...

On Yom Hashoah day, continuing the themes of last night. Mark Prowiser, on the “Yesha Views” blog, addresses the issue of “never again,” which, as he...

    A rhetorical title for today’s post. For the answer, quite obviously and tragically, is that they have not. ~~~~~~~~~~ Tonight begins Yom Hashoah,...

Fervently do I wish I had only good news to carry into Shabbat.  But this is not the case.  Thank G-d for Shabbat, which gives...

I think it was anti-terrorist Steve Emerson who said this (and possibly Daniel Pipes as well): You cannot defeat the enemy if you cannot even...

Pesach ended here in Israel with dark last night, and will end tonight everywhere else. Before I slip back into the political morass known as...

The Arab League is currently holding a summit meeting in Libya.  Yesterday, head of the League, Amr Moussa, told those gathered that: “We must prepare for...

We Jews are commanded to consider ourselves as if we had come out from Egypt.  This year it seems particularly important that we learn the...

What better word for the current situation?  Two days ago,  Netanyahu met with Obama in Washington, and Netanyahu then requested a second consultation. Apparently to...

As we move along, exposed to the surface of various events, I would like to simply look a bit deeper.  There is, of course, much...