That title might apply to most of what’s happening these days, I realize, but I have one particular situation in mind: On Wednesday, Haaretz revealed

It is now three years since the expulsion of Jews from the communities of Gush Katif in the southern Gaza Strip and other communities in

With full acknowledgement to Rav Ari Kahn, whose Tisha B’Av shiur (lesson) I attended this morning.  Sharing the essence of the message… We are taught

Immediately upon the close of Shabbat tomorrow night we begin Tisha B’Av (the ninth of the month of Av): a day of Jewish national mourning

What do you do if you are a lame-duck prime minister with a single digit approval rating and you’ve been negotiating a very problematic deal

The recent incidents involving Hamas-Fatah violence have had some interesting and positive repercussions internationally.  Less and less is the world sympathetic to a people that

Well, seems Abbas has been convinced to take the members of Fatah who fled from Gaza, saying that he recognizes their lives would be at

I confess: I feel so inundated with evidence of official stupidity — including some very dangerous stupidity — on both sides of the Atlantic that

Political predictions are never written in stone, and certainly I make no claims that what I’m about to write here is anything other than a

Would have sworn it wouldn’t happen and it has:  Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has announced that after Kadima elects a new leader in its September