Category: Authors
In every generation…
And this is what kept our forefathers, and what keeps us surviving. For not only one arose and tried to destroy us, rather in every generation they try to destroy us, and the Holy One, Blessed is He, saves us from their hands. From the middle of the 19th century, …
The Sound of the Siren
Please God, please watch over him…over all of them. Let this be the last time we mourn newly fallen.
A Letter To Pres. Trump in Advance of His Meet with Abbas
Dear Mr. President: Later this week, you will be meeting with a person, who (on the outside) appears to be an older, respectable gentleman, in the twilight of his life. Do not let that outward appearance fool you. Sir, he is a terrorist with blood on his hands. Not only …
A Special Offer for BBC Journalists (CNN and Reuters too)
As is almost always the case with BBC, they got it wrong.
The 28th of Iyar, Book Review
The State of Israel has been gearing up for celebrating the 50th anniversary of our miraculous victory in the 1967 Six Days War…That’s why I’m very happy that Rabbi Emanuel Feldman has republished his lovely and honest memoir, his day by day journal written during the weeks leading up to the Six Days War and the war itself.
Milestones and Roadblocks
In the summer of 1986, my mother turned seventy years old. She had been a widow then for the same amount of time as she had been married. To mark the milestone, my brother, my then husband, and I held a surprise birthday party for her. The pictures that sit …
Israeli Memorial-Independence Days Connection, Suits to a “T”
Our Independence Day celebrations honor those who were killed. By celebrating we are saying that they didn’t die in vain, and that our enemies will not defeat us, not militarily and not psychologically.
An “Only in Israel Story,” The Arab Bus Driver
Not long ago, after getting on a bus to Jerusalem, I realized they the bus driver was an Arab. This happens a lot, because as I keep saying: “Israel isn’t an apartheid state!” Honestly, I don’t inspect the driver when getting on the bus, so unless it’s a driver I’m …
Collective Punishment – Or Coming to One’s Senses
The burning issue that is the talk of Israel, when it comes to dealing with terror is the hatred of collective punishment. The “Jewish conscience” (filled with Western morality that is in fierce opposition to the Torah and traditional Jewish values) states, thou shall not collectively punish a people, city …
Back to Me on the Indigenous Issue Dialog
Thank you, Paula, for your wonderful and eloquent response to my original post on this issue. I agree with everything you write, and then some. I look at the whole “indigenous” issue as an attempt to distract and side-step from the main point, being that we don’t need “proof” to …