Isn't All Apartheid the Same Evil?
My plan was to write a nice little blog post welcoming the people of Amona to the Shiloh Bloc of "settlements," Jewish communities, but then I read a few lines in the Jerusalem Post and began to...
View ArticleIsraeli Sovereignty vs Terror
No surprise. More terror attacks.Stabbing attack foiled in HevronTERRORIST STABS THREE BEFORE BEING SHOT DEAD IN OLD CITYThose Arabs sure don't "deserve" a state.BDS is just a front for pro-Arab terror...
View ArticleHH 18 Blog Posts from All Over
It's time for another Havel Havelim, the round-up of blog posts from various Jewish and Israeli blogs. I've been posting just eighteen 18 חי Chai, Life the past few years.And I also include a few...
View ArticleIsraeli Politics, Always "Just Before Elections," Nu Gidon Saar?
Haaretz, Gideon Sa'ar. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi Former Likud MK and minister Gidon Saar chose the pre-Passover Likud toast in Acre to return to political/public life. Even though his carefully...
View ArticleCan The United Nations Really Change?
Israel ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danonaddresses the UN Security Council on January 17, 2017(Courtesy) Times of IsraelWhen Israel's present Ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon,...
View ArticleThe Radical Jewish Left and The 1967 Six Days War
There are too many, OK even one would be bad, radical Leftist Jewish groups calling themselves "pro-Israel" while their policies support the delegitimization and dismantling of the State of Israel.Here...
View ArticleRamming Terror Attacks, Too Easy
Soldier murdered near Ofra: Elhai TaharlevConsidering that I was injured in the first ramming terror attack over twenty years ago, I'm a bit hyper-worried about them. I must admit that I had seen the...
View ArticleOne Year, May His Memory Be A Blessing
Now our family calendar has a new pre-Passover "event" to remember. Last year just a few days before Passover I got the call from my sister in Arizona that our father had just passed away. In a sense...
View ArticleEasy Sefira Reminders
The Torah in HaikuOver the years I've tried lots of ways to remember to count "Sefirat Haomer." And finally, I found the simplest way possible, which works all but on Friday night and the last night of...
View ArticlePassover: Choose Your Battles, and Kitniyot isn't Mine
I enjoy my usual coffee, made in a Passover percolator, served in a Passover mug on my specially covered counter.For those not living a Torah Jewish aka Orthodox life, there are innumerable issues that...
View ArticleWhat's Brewing in The Middle East?
Passover percolator perking companionably by the KneidlachIn my house it's just "Turkish" coffee in the Passover percolator, but the headlines make it seem like we're more like in the "eye of the...
View ArticleUSA 2020 Presidential Elections Begin
Yes, I have no doubt that American Presidential Election Campaigns begin long before polling day, and no doubt that 2020 has begun.creditAs I have written, Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign began in...
View ArticleAncient Shiloh Hakeduma, Tel Shiloh, The Place to Be on Passover!
Thousands of modern pilgrims from all over the showed up at the Biblical Site of Shiloh on the First day of Chol Hamoed Passover. For more information click here. Yes, it's open today, too.There were...
View ArticleBiblical/Ancient Jews Fleeing Egypt WERE NOT Refugees
What's a refugee?a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster (google)The Jews who left Egypt weren't refugees, because they weren't...
View ArticleArab Terror Attack on The Jerusalem Lightrail
Friday a young woman was murdered by an Arab terrorist on the Jerusalem Lightrail. Authorities say he has a history of mental illness, but that's no comfort to the family. And, davka, the victim,...
View ArticleCounting The Omer, Looking Forward to The Next Holiday
Reminder for Counting the Omer when phone and computer are off. I've been leaving a "sign" right over the television, a place my eyes wander for the past few years. I find this to be the best way of...
View ArticleArab Terrorist Hunger Strike - Let Them Starve to Death!
Not for the first time, convicted imprisoned Arab terrorists in Israel have declared a hunger strike. And as far as I'm concerned, let them starve to death.HUNDREDS OF PALESTINIAN PRISONERS TO...
View ArticleRosh Chodesh Iyar is So SOON!
I know. It happens every year that we are barely recovered from Passover and suddenly it's Yom Ha'atzmaut, Israel's Independence day. There are barely a couple of weeks between the two. And even before...
View ArticleDoes The State of Israel Have The Guts?
ShilohTo be a real "light unto all nations," a very nebulous subjective phrase, we the Jewish People and today's reborn State of Israel must be willing to do things other countries many not dare and...
View Article4/6 Favorites
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