From Israel: “Purim!!”
March 5, 2023 “Purim!!” This week we celebrate Purim – Monday night and Tuesday, and for Jerusalem, which was a walled city, Shushan Purim, Tuesday...
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From Israel: “Please Note: The Spots Are Still the Same!!”
I have drawn my title, as many of you will surmise, from the Hebrew prophet Jeremiah (Yermeyahu), who asked, Can the leopard change its spots?...
From Israel: “Our Day of Miracles!!”
We, the Jewish People, are a miracle. That we were dispersed from our Land 2,000 years ago and then returned is a one-time happening that...
From Israel: “Badly Needed Inspiration at a Critical Juncture!!”
As I sat down to write this posting, I felt overwhelmed by an awareness of how many significant problems we are facing at one time....
From Israel: “Stupid Is, As Stupid Does!!”
Next Sunday, May 29, is Yom Yerushalayim – a day that marks Israel’s liberation of eastern Jerusalem in 1967 and its subsequent formal reunification with...
From Israel: “And So I Wept!!”
Many of us here in Israel had not yet moved past the deep sadness we were carrying with regard to the terror attack in Ariel,...
From Israel: “Hatred: Manifest and Implicit”
It is my practice, always, to begin a posting with news of a terror attack – when one occurs – before dealing with other matters....
From Israel: “Tolerating What Is Intolerable!!”
The final day of Pesach is over, as is Shabbat, and – grateful for a brief hiatus that brought me a modicum of temporary peace...
From Israel: “No Respite from the Horror”
The horror is, of course, a terror attack: This one was of particularly serious dimensions (not to imply that there are terror attacks not of...
From Israel: “The Chutzpah and the Stupidity!!”
The chutzpah (gall, insolence) belongs to many of the Arabs inside of Israel and beyond. The stupidity can be attributed to those of our purported...