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The Story of Ruth & Naomi is Not About “Loving the Stranger”

Maybe I should call this post: Jerusalem Post Promotes Intermarriage I got very aggravated on Shavuot after reading the first/main article in the Jerusalem Post’s Holiday Magazine,  LOVING THE STRANGER: THE TIMELESS MESSAGE OF THE STORY OF RUTH by Lee Caspi, because Caspi got it all wrong. On my first reading, …

#fakejews

We have read so much about “fake news” over the past many months, that the title of this post came to me as I kept looking at the stream of news I was reading on Facebook. A little context. For quite a long period of time, there have been many …

Ambassador Bolton’s “3 State” Peace Proposal, Nonsensical

Ambassador Bolton addressing the Ingeborg Rennert Center’s Guardian of Zion Award dinner As I already blogged on A Jewish Grandmother, my husband and I attended the Ingeborg Rennert Center’s Guardian of Zion Award Dinner last night. So, besides the food, the real highlight of the evening was the speech by …

Fixing a 3000 Year Old Mistake Should Always be this Easy

I love the holiday of Shavuot…I don’t know why really. Passover is too much work. I do love Sukkot…Simchat Torah…Purim…Rosh Hashana – so really, oh…Hanuka…the point is…I really love all the holidays, but there is something about Shavuot…it isn’t just that it is on this holiday that we were blessed …

A 44-Line Summary of the Miracle of The Six Day War

[taken from chapter 6 of To Cross The Line With A Bridge (Rabeinu Publications, 2015) quoting the time-table from Beit Torah Ohr Gadol’s disk series “Sha’at HaEfes”] “Maybe others had the patience for durations like the Hundred-Years War or the down-sized Thirty-Years one, but for His holy people back on …

Elisha Davidson and The Shamir, Third of The Trilogy, A Book Review

Elisha Davidson and The Shamir by M. R. (Rhonda) Attar is the final book in the futuristic trilogy that could happen in the not so distant future. I reviewed the first two, ELISHA DAVIDSON and the Letters of Fire and ELISHA DAVIDSON and the Ispaklaria. Attar’s trilogy along with Catriel Sugarman’s The …

Batsheva and King David, “Takes Two to Tango,” Said The Busdriver

One of the things so very different here in Israel is that here the bus drivers are “peers,” meaning “regular people,” the sort who can be neighbors, friends, fellow Tanach, Bible aficionados. There are Arab bus drivers, too, as I wrote about here, but they are the exceptions. Unlike the …

Summary of The Kastner Affair:  When We Say ‘Never Again’ and ‘Never Forget’ – It Includes This Too

[Summary taken from chapter 9 of To Cross The Line With A Bridge, Rabeinu Publications, 2015 and is OF (and citations refer to) Ben Hecht’s book Perfidy] On May 5, 1953, the Attorney General of Israel presented Malchiel Greenwald a criminal complaint for libel against Dr. Israel (Rudolf) Kastner.  On …