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 …
Finally the United States has a president who isn’t totally enamored with Arab terrorist leaders. I can’t remember a time when an American President seemed more comfortable and supporting of Israel rather than the Arabs who want to destroy us. As imperfect/flawed as Donald Trump certainly is, at least he …
… I think that today, the day after Jerusalem Day and three weeks after Israeli Independence Day is just the time to post a special Jerusalem themed edition.
[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 …
Since President Trump and his entourage left the US for Saudi Arabia, the religious world has been “up in arms.” No one knows the identity of the rabbi who permitted Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner to fly in an airplane on Shabbat. No one knows if they actually asked a …
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 …
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 …
on Hebrew U opposition to HaTikva, former Miss Israel Mor Maman, BTS-enabler “Rabbi” Jonathan Sacks
[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 …
Sunday, 10th June 2007 – Haifa, Israel I set my alarm for 4:00 AM to give myself time to shower and prepare for our long morning. Funnily enough, Motti managed to get to sleep at a relatively normal hour (normal being a very loose term in the Rosenzweig Unabridged Dictionary) …
Life goes better when someone else makes the mistakes but you benefit from them, right? If you agree with that, you’re gonna LUV this book review. PS – Sharing is one thing, but re-publishing my work in a different forum (print, broadcast or online) is another. NOBODY has the right …
The week of Yom Ha’atzmaut, on 6 Iyyar marked 23 years since my father died. His death was “all of a sudden”and quick. Although he had a long cardiac history, it was something very unexpected. The medics at the scene told me that even had he been in a good hospital …
