An Alternate View on Women Dancing with the Torah
If you are praying to God, do you believe He is more on the men’s side than on the women’s side?
Author: Paula Stern
War on Religion in Maale Adumim
Wars are waged for many reasons. Sometimes for power and money. Often hatred or religion are at the core. And sometimes, as is often the case in the Middle East, it could be hatred OF religion. Ultimately, war is a harsh word and should be used with caution. Not every …
The Last Soldier Returns Home
Months ago, the youngest soldier in our family told me he was going to go abroad for the summer. He would work in a camp do some traveling and then come home before the New Year (Rosh Hashana). Regularly, we spoke on the phone but all I really wanted to …
Watching a Grandson Suffer – Maale Adumim Update
What lessons do the the children learn? The mayor hates them, despises all that they represent. He doesn’t want them. He cares more for the flowers.
Benny Kashriel Demands an Apology from the Children
UPDATE ON DAY 24: I have heard that the Mayor of Maale Adumim wants an apology from the children, the parents and those who are demanding that he fulfill the requirements of the Ministry of Education to provide a legally recognized school to over 100 children who remain, more than …
Danger in the Air for American Jewry?
It’s been so long since I’ve been to the States – over 20 years. I was never one of those fly-there-every-summer types – even before my mother and father (z”l) moved here almost 18 years ago. It’s been so long, I can’t tell you if the feeling Jews have in …
A Terrible Wrong Made Right
On Yom Yerushalayim, the city fills with people wearing blue and white; flags are fluttering in the soft breeze. We celebrate many things – but most of all, we celebrate a wrong made right.
Trying to Be Normal
First written after a terror attack in Israel in December, 2002, this article was reprinted in 2012 and is posted again now after the Sri Lanka attacks on Easter day. It is an article about the human need to find normal. And it’s about how no matter how bad the …
Beresheet: Israel’s Way of Laughing its Way to the Moon
Israel laughed and celebrated tonight, minutes after Beresheet crash landed on the moon. Take a minute to read some of the jokes that flooded in the Israel cyber world. We’ll go to sleep celebrating the victory rather than mourning the loss. And that is so typical of Israelis.
Election Results: The Same Idiots?
Moments after the polls closed: the pollsters did it yet again. They made their calculations and then made the results known. To be honest, all the votes have still not come in but a general direction is there. And…well, the pollsters only made a tiny error. Most said that Kachol …
A Message for Americans and Israelis On Election Day
For those who are disappointed by the results, they will go to work and wonder when the next election will be. And, for those who are happy with the results, they too will go to work and wonder when the next election will be.
Reflections: Finding Ways to Fight Negativity and Betrayal
There are days when your mind is filled with reflections on all there is around you. Today was such a day. Once again, I find myself struggling not to respond to certain posts by certain people on certain topics that certainly are offensive and wrong. Fighting inner feelings that don’t …