Haman in Modern Times
Like that classic story about terror, fascism etc starting with the policies and actions against Jews, those looking clearly without PC-distorted lenses can easily see the progression of violence in...
View ArticleHaman Alive and Well All Over The World
Recently there have been reports about the Arab terrorist who murdered seven Israeli schoolgirls being released from jail, totally unrepentant.20 years after 7 Israeli schoolgirls were killed, some...
View ArticleRichard Gere, Perfect for Purim
I don't know how far and wide the exposure and publicity Richard Gere's Israeli interviews have gotten, but they got intolerably too much press here in Israel.As the entire world heard at the pinnacle...
View ArticleReflections and Review: "The Conversations We Never Had"
"The Conversations We Never Had" by Jeffrey H. Konis is an amazing book. I'm not quite sure what the genre actually is, since it combines biography, memoir and fiction.Konis, like many of us is in a...
View ArticleNo Anti-Arab Apartheid in Israel/YESHA etc.
The roads I travel between Shiloh and all over Israel have both Arabs and Jews on them.And all of us, Jews and Arabs will enjoy the improvements being made on the road between Shaar Binyamin/Ramalla...
View ArticleConsidering The State of The World, Glad I'm in Israel
52Frames "Work of Gd"I see danger and chaos all over, even in the United States of America which was once the most powerful, wealthy and stable and safest seeming country in the world.Way back when, in...
View ArticleMore Terror in France!
Paris Orly airport shooting: Attacker was 'radicalised Muslim' man known to French intelligence servicesPassengers evacuated from Orly airport's southern terminal after a shooting on 18 March...
View ArticleWeekly Torah Portion, Ki Tisa, "Dumb Question"
Add this to my series of "dumb questions." I have a lot of questions about this Torah Portion and Biblical narrative. Did you ever think about these things?For the longest time this has bothered me....
View ArticleIsraeli Politics, Polls and Predictions
Considering that the norm in Israel is to have elections earlier than legally scheduled, the country always suffers a form of "election fever." Yes, think of it as a chronic "infection."There's never a...
View ArticleAmericans, So You're Not Happy With Trump? Change the System!
As I've written before, the two main party nominees for the American Presidency were the two worst in the History of the United States of America. And as "unsuitable" Donald Trump may be as POTUS, I...
View ArticleCelebrating in The Shadow of Amona
One of the big events in the school year here in Israel, at least in the religious schools, is the מסיבת סידור Missibat Siddur, The Siddur Party, when the First Graders get their Siddur, Prayerbook.In...
View ArticleThe REAL REASON Jerusalem Arabs are Opting for Israeli Citizenship
There's a very simple reason that Jerusalem Arabs, and other Arabs who legally can, are opting to take advantage of their right for Israeli Citizenship.The PA-Palestinian Authority and Hamas-ruled Gaza...
View ArticleDavid Friedman Approved as US Ambassador to Israel!
David Friedman arrives at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on his nomination of to be US ambassador to Israel. (photo credit:REUTERS) Nobody knows if David Friedman, the newly...
View ArticleAnti-Israel Hypocrisy Reigns
There is no apartheid in Israel. Arabs, Jews of all races, Christians, Muslims, Bahais, Druze etc. all live in Israel.All live with full rights in Israel. All can study in universities, together in the...
View ArticleRosh Chodesh Nissan in 2 Days, so Passover in 2 Weeks!
Cross-posted on A Jewish GrandmotherLook at the 5777 calendar:Isn't it funny/strange/peculiar how these important dates just rush up on us without any real warning? And pretty much every year, before...
View ArticleWill There be Real Changes in American Policy Towards Israel?
The big question here in Israel and among many American Jews is whether or not the Trump administration will change American policy towards Israel. One great improvement, which isn't actual policy, is...
View ArticleTime Bomb, Anti-semitism getting Worse All Over
I don't think I'm exaggerating when I say that things are getting much worse for Jewish People all over the world. I know that many will argue with me, but I consider the acceptance and...
View ArticleAgainst All Odds, We're Back!
March, 2017Yesterday, Rosh Chodesh Nissan, while my friend and I were slowly making our way from the Mishkan, Tabernacle area of Shiloh Hakeduma, Tel Shiloh, we couldn't help but admire the...
View ArticleInspiring Pre-Passover Learning
Yesterday, I was one of the hundreds of women and men who overfilled the Matan Auditorium to hear three of Matan's best teachers, Dr. Yael Ziegler, Rabbanit Shani Taragin and Yael Leibowitz. I thank Gd...
View ArticleJewish Women, We've "come a long way, baby"
As I posted yesterday, this week I attended Matan's Pre-Passover Yom Iyyun, Education Day. I don't know whom I heard mentioning something very significant which resonates greatly. During those three...
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