From Israel: Special Days
May 28, 2017 “Special Days” How fraught with energy this past week was, with one event running into another. Moving backwards… Yom Yerushalayim was celebrated...
From Israel: Celebrate Yerushalayim!
May 23, 2017 “Celebrate Yerushalayim!” Yerushalayim (Jerusalem) comes first! If you can tolerate a painful pun: it trumps news about Trump (who is here in...
“Balagan of the First Order”
May 18, 2017 “Balagan of the First Order” The Hebrew word “balagan” means confusion or muddle. “Ezeh balagan”: what a mess. It is a most...
From Israel: Say It Proud!
May 15, 2017 “Say It Proud!” It’s about time! Actually, past time. MK Avi Dichter (Likud), chair of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee,...
From Israel: Up, Down, All Around
May 12, 2017 “Up, Down, All Around” Sometimes even if we track the news carefully (or maybe especially if we track the news carefully) we...
From Israel: Mercurial
May 9, 2017 “Mercurial” It’s a given that the political scene is rarely static. But the present – both here and in the US –...
From Israel: Amazing Israel
May 2, 2017 “Amazing Israel” Every year I write about this, and every year it astounds me yet again: The transition within a moment in...
From Israel: Strength of a Nation
April 30, 2017 “Strength of a Nation” Tonight we began Yom Hazikaron, Memorial Day, here in Israel: a day of national mourning. At 8 PM,...
From Israel: Riding the Waves
April 27, 2017 “Riding the Waves” When I was a kid (a million years ago), I loved to ride the waves. I would move out...
From Israel: Awe
April 24, 2017 “Awe” I know of no more appropriate word to describe the strength, resilience and courage of survivors of the Holocaust – the...