UncategorizedFrom Israel: “This Just Won’t Do!”ArleneMarch 25, 2019March 26, 2019 by ArleneMarch 25, 2019March 26, 20190561 Purim is over, and we are back to “normal,” whatever that actually is. Last Tuesday, the terrorist who murdered Staff Sgt. Gal Keidan and Rabbi
UncategorizedFrom Israel: “Rage and Pain Multiplied!”ArleneMarch 18, 2019March 19, 2019 by ArleneMarch 18, 2019March 19, 20191817 We knew there was a strong possibility that Rabbi Ahiad Ettinger might not live, in spite of the valiant efforts of his doctors to save
UncategorizedFrom Israel: “Damn, Damn!!”ArleneMarch 17, 2019March 17, 2019 by ArleneMarch 17, 2019March 17, 20190599 Perhaps it should not be unexpected, for there is frequently an increase in attacks before Purim, which comes later this week. But one can hope.
UncategorizedFrom Israel: “Extreme Malice and Stupidity!”ArleneMarch 15, 2019March 15, 2019 by ArleneMarch 15, 2019March 15, 20190629 The air in Israel is heavy with tensions, but in many instances, for the wrong reasons. We are subject to so much nonsense: unfortunate sparring
UncategorizedFrom Israel: “We Are Not Total Idiots!”ArleneMarch 11, 2019March 11, 2019 by ArleneMarch 11, 2019March 11, 20190595 “We”? I am speaking of Jews: The Jews here in Israel, certainly. And some percentage of American Jews. I’ve been tracking the growing anti-Semitism in
UncategorizedFrom Israel: “Caution — Danger!!”ArleneMarch 8, 2019March 8, 2019 by ArleneMarch 8, 2019March 8, 20190664 The danger is Benny Gantz as prime minister, in a very literal sense. And so I lead off with “Elephant in the room – highlighting
UncategorizedFrom Israel: “Pulling Ourselves Out of the Quagmire!”ArleneMarch 5, 2019March 8, 2019 by ArleneMarch 5, 2019March 8, 20190562 About a week ago, a reader wrote to me that we should have good cheer: things were looking so bad, politically, that they were bound
UncategorizedFrom Israel: “Otzma: Disavowing Political Correctness”ArleneFebruary 28, 2019February 28, 2019 by ArleneFebruary 28, 2019February 28, 20190575 There is quite a hullabaloo ongoing with regard to the inclusion of the Otzma Yisraelit faction on the Bayit Yehudi-National Union list (in a technical
UncategorizedFrom Israel: “Who Could Have Imagined This??”ArleneFebruary 28, 2019February 28, 2019 by ArleneFebruary 28, 2019February 28, 20190655 Not I. In all of the many years during which I have tracked Israeli pre-election campaigns, I have never encountered a campaign season like this
UncategorizedFrom Israel: “The Critical Roller Coaster of Israeli Politics!”ArleneFebruary 22, 2019February 22, 2019 by ArleneFebruary 22, 2019February 22, 20190594 For weeks I was reticent about the intricacies of Israeli politics as the first stage of the campaign began to heat up. It was all