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 …
Every Rosh Chodesh, besides those on Shabbat, there are Women’s Prayers at Tel Shiloh, Shiloh Hakeduma. We gather at the spot where the Mishkan, Tabernacle was located during Biblical times, before King David declared Jerusalem as the Jewish Capital City. Joshua brought the Tabernacle to Shiloh and made it the Capital …
…our enemy is the antisemitism that has existed from the very beginning of Judaism.
People often ask me, “Do you love Israel?” The pat answer is, “Of course I do!” Truthfully, though, living in Israel is similar to being married. At the beginning, when you first meet, there are lots of fireworks. The land is beautiful, it beckons. The sun is fantastic, and you …
Last summer I discovered a new coffee taste and brewing method, Cold Brew.
…if we want the respect and support of American President Trump, then we must act like a strong, independent sovereign state, not a weak fawning nebbich.
I’ve been following news in Israel since before the 1967 Six Days War, and I’ve lived here since 1970, so I do have quite a long perspective. I remember when Israel’s political Center and even Left mocked the idea of a Palestinian State and People. That was the consensus here. …
