Last night I went with friends to participate in the reading of Eicha — Lamentations on the destruction of the Temple — on the Tayelet,

Tonight at sundown begins Tisha B’av — the ninth of Av — the most solemn day in the Jewish calendar. It was on this day

One keeps hoping — indeed, praying — that the news will get better. But it doesn’t. Last week Iran President Ahmadinejad was in Damascus for

Well, the High Court did not accept the petition of the Almagor Terror Victims Association that the slated release of 250+ Palestinian prisoners be blocked.

An unnamed "senior IDF officer " has given a briefing with regard to the situation in Gaza that is being broadly cited. I am assuming

On Tuesday, the list of 256 prisoners slated for release on Friday was approved by a ministerial committee. The only ones to oppose it were

It is I who am stymied. Flummoxed. Not to mention grieved, and furious. It is 1:00 AM here in Israel as I write , and

Israel ‘s strength and the source of immeasurable pride. I’ve said it before, and I say it again here: We may have lousy governments, but

Madgi Halabi is an Israeli Druze journalist who has connections with friends in Lebanon. In today’s YNet he writes about the inevitability of war in

"Blind Cowardice" It was called to my attention yesterday that the nuclear powered USS Enterprise had been dispatched to the Persian Gulf. Right now there