Motzei Hag (After Rosh Hashana) After two days of Rosh Hashana, with heart-felt prayer and deep contemplation, I have returned to my computer to find

Tomorrow night begins the Jewish New Year: Rosh Hashana. It is time of serious contemplation, acknowledgement of our failings, and efforts for improvement — coupled

Motzei Shabbat (After Shabbat) According to a story in The Guardian (UK) late this past week, European sources who claimed to have been in touch

At least not yet: The coalition agreement between Kadima and Labor. According to my information, this is the scenario as it’s playing out so far:

It feels as if the world is going to hell in a handbasket. Barak seems to have forgotten that he once said he wouldn’t want

There was a terrorist attack about 11 PM last night. An Arab, Kasem Mugrabi, 19, from the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Jebl Mukaber ran his

In the Torah reading for this past Shabbat — Ki Tavo — Moses speaks to the children of Israel shortly before they cross the Jordan

So, Tzipi Livni has won the Kadima primary, making her the new head of the party, beating runner-up Shaul Mofaz not by the landslide polls

In a word, Ehud Olmert is not even a poor excuse for a prime minister. For he has abandoned the Israeli narrative and lost the

Changes are rapidly approaching: There is the Kadima primary, scheduled for this Wednesday, and then, three months hence, the end of Bush’s administration — by