From Israel: Rumbling Thunder
This post title is apt, first of all, from the perspective of the weather. This week we have had extraordinary weather for Israel at this...
From Israel: Hostilities at the Fence
Sigh. We’ve now seen our fourth Friday with Palestinian Arab violence at the fence separating Gaza from Israel. Last Thursday, the committee of the “Great...
From Israel: Rejoice in the Miracle
The Land of Israel is the sacred inheritance of the Jewish People. That we have been able to return after 2,000 years of exile is...
From Israel: Way to Go, President Trump!
Or, in the Israeli vernacular, Kol Hakavod! It was Shabbat here when President Trump announced the strike on Syria we had been waiting for; I...
From Israel: Ani Ode Chai!
The English translation—I am still alive!—doesn’t quite have the same impact. It is Yom HaShoah here in Israel today: The Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance...
From Israel: The World is Bonkers
The imperative to counter libelous statements and untruths about Israel is always with us. But at this moment in time the situation—in terms of libels,...
From Israel: Tiresome
Pesach—which was a delight for me, as I hope for all—is over. I’m back at my computer, and back to business. Just as I did...
From Israel: Let There Be No Mistake!
Had I not been busy with Pesach, I would have written this sooner. Now that I am at my computer, it is my intention to...
From Israel: All Right!
Friday night begins the week of Pesach. This holiday, enormously rich in symbolism, has universal elements regarding freedom and human dignity. But at its core,...
From Israel: Sounding the Alarm!
Matters are certainly not smooth. Not here – and I’ll come to that. But worse, on the other side of the Atlantic. America is in...