August 30, 2017 “On Several Fronts” These are hardly quiet times, and there is much to attend to.  The trick is to focus on those

August 25, 2017 “Getting to Better” Recent events, both here in Israel and in the larger world, have generated in many of us feelings of

August 20, 2017 “Hysteria and Skewed Thinking” My friends, it’s mid-August and I would dearly love to take a very peaceful vacation, and just spend

August 13, 2017 Dear friends, It has been, incredibly, some nine days since I’ve last posted.  But now I can share with all of you

August 4, 2017 “Hope Is with the People” It’s the people of Israel, more than many of our erstwhile leaders, who seem to be getting

July 30, 2017 “Who We Are” With everything that has been going on, I thought it important today to begin by highlighting a couple of

July 28, 2017 “Painful Lessons” Events have moved along with such speed in the last two days that it has been difficult to keep my

July 25, 2017 “Unacceptable!” Recently I cited a phrase from an old sit-com, “What a revolting development!”  I got the citation wrong, but never mind.

July 23, 2017 “Facing Down Lies and Hatred” Lies and hatred and murder.  Murder motivated by the hatred that was stoked by the inciteful lies.

July 19, 2017 “The Firestorm and the Lesson” We’re on the Temple Mount issue, still. The days go by, and the situation gets more and