Opening Night! Very Off Broadway
Off, Off, Off Broadway extends as far as Jerusalem for sure. My husband and I were privileged to be among the lucky ones to attend opening night of “The Ghosts of Mizrachi Bet Street” by historian Zev...
View ArticleNostra Aetate 50th Anniversary Marked by Controversial Vatican and Rabbinic...
posted by JewishIsrael.comNostra Aetate 50th Anniversary Marked by Controversial Vatican and Rabbinic StatementsTwo statements, one Papal and one Rabbinic, addressing the status of Christian-Jewish...
View ArticleArab Terrorists aren't Convinced by Kindness
I wish people would get real and stop fantasizing and projecting their own innate goodness. Even the reactions from the Jewish communities that have recently been the scenes of cruel Arab terror...
View ArticleBernie Sanders: Good for Israel or Jews?
For someone of my age who grew up in the United States, the idea that a Jew is now considered a "frontrunner" of sorts to be President of the United States is rather amazing. But as an Israeli for...
View ArticleI Must Be Hitting a Nerve...
For the second time in less than a week, on the Arutz 7 blog page, three out of the "Popular Posts" are mine.Popular PostsHuman Rights, ‘evil righteousness’ and the Jewish State5This Wave of Arab...
View ArticleMore American Anti-Israel Policies
Between American spying on Israeli leaders and government and its interfering in Israeli Elections by funding the "anyone but Bibi" NPOs and now threatening action against any business/product produced...
View ArticleHas Labor's Herzog Suddenly Gotten Smart?
If you haven't yet heard...Herzog: In current reality, two-state solution is not realisticMK Herzog. (photo credit:MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST)The opposition leader said that absent the...
View ArticleWill These Poles Really Protect Us?
Yes, it's deja vu time yet again. The two most popular, rather low tech, methods the Arab terrorists have been using to try to murder us of late are pretty old. #1- Stabbing, of course is the simplest,...
View ArticleP.A. Cop Shoots Israeli Soldiers, Act of War?
Israeli security forces standing by the body of a Palestinian who opened fire on Israeli soldiers near the Jewish settlement of Beit El in the West Bank before being shot dead, Jan. 31, 2016. (Flash...
View ArticleVoting for Hillary because She's a Woman is SEXIST!
Yes, just like I kept saying that voting and supporting Barack Hussein Obama, because he's "black," even half-black, is racist, voting and supporting Hillary Clinton because she's a woman is sexist. Is...
View ArticleLet Them Have The Kotel- If I Can Have Har Habayit!!
Yes, Let Them Have The Kotel- If We Can Have Har Habayit!! And for once I'll make it clear in Hebrew, too:תנו להם הכותל אם תנו לנו את הר הבית!!!I think that pretty much everyone in the Jewish World has...
View ArticleSecurity and the So-Called "Occupation," sic
I don't know why people are so afraid to come to Israel. All and all, with the very low crime/murder rate, rather competent police and concerned/interfering private citizens, one is safer in Israel...
View ArticlePicture of The Day: Only in Israel!
I think this picture says a lot about life in Israel that you won't find anyplace else.The sign on the bus is of the most basic of Jewish Prayers, the "Shma,""שמע." Sh'ma Yisra'eil Adonai Eloheinu...
View ArticleNY Times Part Right but Totally Distorted
As the saying goes, the most convincing lies have some truth in them. That's a good way of describing this New York Times op-ed called Who Are the Real Heirs of Zionism?.The Israeli general and...
View ArticleThe Myth of Israel's Foreign Allies
We have no real allies to "alienate," and we've never really had any to rely on.Even as Israel loudly tangles with Sweden, the UN, and the US envoy, Netanyahu is quietly trying to 'muddle through' amid...
View Article"P.A." Arabs Clamor to Work in Israel!
For PA-Palestinian Authority Arabs who want good, relatively high-paid work, with good conditions, there are two options.Get a job in Israel!Work for an Israeli business in Judea/Samaria/Jordan...
View ArticlePOTUS- Does It Really Make a Difference for Israel?
As you may know already, although I greatly enjoy "punditing" about American presidential politics and elections, I've never voted in American Elections even though I do have a legal right. There are...
View ArticleAntisemitism- Are we Paranoid or Pragmatic?
There are those of us who see and feel antisemitism as the underlying source of numerous/all acts against Israel and Jewish People all over the world.And we also see many people who deny their...
View ArticleGuest Post: The Guy Who Never Watches a Movie -- Watches a Movie
More than one funny thing happened to me and my wife on the way to watch a movie. My wife Janet decided to give herself a fun outing. She saw on the the OU Israel Center Torah Tidbits that there was...
View ArticleShouldn't Adar Alef be Sh'vat Bet?
I'm not the only Israeli living in the Biblical Heartland, where our Jewish History and Religion developed who has been on a shikaydia alert, checking for those pink and white flowers on the almond...
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