Gmar Chatima Tova, Timing is From Gd
On Sunday morning, everything was so calm, peaceful and lovely, as I walked over to wait for my friends at the bus stop towards Kfar Adumim across from Ammunition Hill Jerusalem. I had gotten off of...
View ArticleIs Yom Kippur Still a Big Draw for Assimilated Jews?
I know there still are Jews who show up to shul on Rosh Hashanah to hear the shofar and then again on Yom Kippur for a quick visit to ask Gd to give them "life," or whatever.When I was growing up, my...
View ArticleRelieved That Shimon Peres in No Longer With The Living
photo I took of Shimon PeresOK, for all those who kept telling me to wait until after the burial, or after Rosh Hashanah or after Yom Kippur for writing how I really feel about the death of Shimon...
View ArticleWhy Does the USA Support Abbas When, It's Also a Victim of PA Hate?
creditEvery time United States President Barack Hussein Obama is photographed with PA-Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas, he grins like a five year old on Santa's lap. Obviously, either the...
View ArticleTaking Bets on When Michelle Obama is Going to Run for President?
CNNI think we've all seen the pictures of Michelle Obama mouthing her husband's speeches, while he struggles with his teleprompter or little mini-earpiece trying to sound eloquent. And it's no secret...
View ArticleJewish Calendar Proves That This Land is OURS!
We are now about to celebrate the Jewish Holiday of Succot which happens in the fall, late summer. It's a holiday that cannot be celebrated here in the Holy Land in the winter or heat of summer. All of...
View ArticleIs it Finally Time for Israel to Leave the United Nations?
cdn2.vtourist.comIsrael is always held under a very distorted microscope in the United Nations, condemned for all sorts of imaginary crimes. No other country is held up to such neurotic psychotic...
View ArticleBeing Protected by The Succah
All or most of us grew up on the story of the three pigs, who each built a different kind of house, straw, sticks and bricks. And when the wolf came to attack, only the brick house provided...
View ArticleCanada, Beware! SECURITY RISK!
creditI keep wondering if this isn't a joke, because if the Canadian Trudeau Government didn't bother counting the children in the Syrian families they accepted as refugees, how thorough was the...
View ArticleHistoric Fact: It's NOT About "The Settlements!"
שנית עמונהלא תיפולSheinit Amona Lo TipolAmona Won't Fall A Second TimeAll those all over the world, here in Israel and abroad, whether informally chatting over tea, coffee or beer or in hallowed halls...
View ArticleThousands in Amona, but Not in the News
Yesterday, on my way to Sha'ar Binyamin, there was an enormous traffic jam by the entrance of Ofra.Also reports from my daughter, who lives in Ofra, was that the crowd supporting Amona was tremendous!I...
View ArticleIsrael is Too Weak on Traitors!
What's a traitor?One who betrays one's country, a cause, or a trust, especially one who commits treason (the free dictionary)Israel is a country under all sorts of attacks in a war for survival. Many...
View ArticleState of Israel Must Stop All The Sniveling and Begging!
I just don't understand why we Jews keep thinking that we can somehow, charm, rebrand, beg, convince etc. ad nauseum people, countries, diplomats, journalists, media and so on to accept and support us...
View ArticleAmericans Right, Left and Center Must Agree that System Undemocratic!
It's 2016, two-hundred-forty years since Americans declared its independence from England, and the convoluted method they came up with for electing a president is totally out of date and completely...
View ArticleThe Incorrect "Conceptzia" That Almost Destroyed The State of Israel
We are our own worst enemies...Yes, I admit that I'm not original in saying so. Yom Kippur, 1973, was a very frightening example of that truism. In the Jerusalem Post there was an article by which...
View ArticlePeace with The Arabs Will Take Generations If At All
For the gazillionth time, I'm saying that the violence between Arabs and Jews here has nothing to do with anything we Jews do or have done, besides innocent breathing. Many well-meaning people were...
View ArticleFirst Havel Havelim of 5777
Havel Havelim is a Jewish/Israeli blog carnival, which means a roundup of posts from various blogs. I don't particularly agree with everything included here, but this isn't just about what I like....
View ArticleTime for Me to Just Wait and Watch American Presidential Elections
creditWith just over a week to American Election Day, I think it's time for me to just find a comfortable seat to observe the fireworks. This is possibly the most bitter election campaign ever. Even...
View ArticleBack to The Beginning, בראשית Bereishit
This Shabbat, the first of the Jewish Year after Rosh Hashanah and the whole slew of Jewish Holidays that followed, was Shabbat Bereishit, the Shabbat when we begin the entire annual cycle of reading...
View ArticleMarmara Attack vs Israel Won't End Until WE SUE THEM!!!!
David Leibowitch (1904-1969),demonstrating the heavy mortarDavidka, invented by him.The well-known military advice/adage is:"The best defense is a good offense."Very unfortunately and potentially...
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