From Israel: “I Could Spit!!”
Not the most dignified of titles, but one that best captures my mood – and the mood, I will note, of a whole lot of...
From Israel: “Those Accursed Rockets!!”
Israelis have had a belly full of attacks from Gaza and yet here we go again. But this time it is going to be...
From Israel: “Our Sadness, Our Strength”
Today – Thursday – is Yom Hashoah, or as it is referred to, Holocaust Remembrance Day for the Martyrs and the Heroes. The heroes should...
From Israel: “Bull’s-eye!”
Today I begin with a piece – “No, it’s not about ‘race’” – by Vic Rosenthal, writing as Abu Yehuda, because I think this marvelously...
From Israel: “Realities, Painful and Otherwise”
For many – myself included – the now-concluded week of Pesach provided a healing interlude: A time of coming together of family and friends. As...
From Israel: “And Off We Go!”
This will be my last posting before Pesach begins on Friday night. This year, the Pesach themes of redemption and evil resonate for me with...
From Israel: “A Revolting Thought”
It’s only a thought, or a rumor, at this point. Before I get to it I want to thank all of my readers who have...
From Israel: “Triumph!”
When the Israeli polls closed at 10 PM on Tuesday, the air was fraught with tensions. Various exit polls, notoriously unreliable in any event, were...
From Israel: “We Brought Him Home!”
Thirty-seven years ago, during the First Lebanon war, Israeli troops engaged in a fierce and bloody battle with Syrian and affiliated PLO units at Sultan...
From Israel: “No Choice, Finally”
I did my good news posting and was very glad for it. But, if we care about what’s going on around us, in the...