End BDS!
If you'd like some anti-BDS, that's the euphemism for anti-Israel those who are trying to destroy us financially and politically, information, then check out the End BDS site.BDS is supported by...
View ArticlePA Covered With "Teflon"
Shiloh Hakeduma, Tel ShilohThe acceptance and promotion of the PA-Palestinian Authority by numerous countries and international organizations is totally irrational, unless you are willing to recognize...
View ArticleDisengagement, Stay Tuned
Today I visited Nitzan where many of the victims of Disengagement, those displaced from their homes now live. Suddenly I thought of something, but there is no way I can write it up on my phone. Please...
View ArticleOpening Old Wounds, Disengagement, Part 1
On Friday as part of the program I participated in with the Menachem Begin Heritage Center, we visited Nitzan, where there is a visitor's center which attempts to explain Disengagement. I wasn't the...
View ArticleDisengagement Part 2, Something Unexpected
Here's Part 2 of my Disengagement series. See Opening Old Wounds, Disengagement, Part 1.Nitzan, Gush Katif Memorial, The "price" of DisengagementLast Friday, early during my visit with Menachem Begin...
View ArticleNew Plugat Hakotel Exhibit, Museum, Movie
It's hard to categorize the newest venue in Jerusalem's Old City, the Plugat Hakotel. It's called a "museum," but there aren't really any exhibits. And unlike most every other museum, there's no...
View ArticleVery Disturbing
I saw this sacrilegious, by Jewish values and theology picture on display in the Cardo, Old City, Jerusalem the other day.What do you think?
View ArticleThe Con, Hoax, Myth of "Palestine," sic
There isn't and never was a "Palestinian People." There is no historical basis for claims that they have rights. This part of the world, aka the Land of Israel has been invaded and occupied by many...
View ArticleThere's No Equality/Objectivity in The Media
Israel's attacked and it's ignored by the international media and do-gooders.Israel defends itself, and the international media and do-gooders condemn it.Someone from the American Right (Roseanne, a...
View ArticleShavua Tov, Wonderful Week, Couldn't Survive Without Shabbat
Havdala, the ceremony that ends Shabbat and starts the weekAs the modern world/life becomes more and more hectic, the traditional Jewish Sabbath, Shabbat seems even more necessary for survival,...
View ArticleNot A Fluke, LIkud/Bibi Support Stable
Contrary to media predictions, and the dreams of the Left, local and international, polls are showing that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's Likud party support hasn't dropped.Maariv Poll: Likud 34,...
View ArticleIsrael's South Suffers Barrage of Arab Terror, International Media...
If you're dependent on the international media for information about news here in Israel, you'd think that Israel has been attacking innocent "Gandhi style" demonstrators of all ages from Gaza. You'd...
View ArticleTwo State "Solution," Dead or Hibernating?
Note that in the title and here, I put the word "solution" in quotation marks. That's because I don't see that "two states" would be a "solution" to the "conflict in the Middle East." The use of...
View Article"East West Street," Book Review
Somehow East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity" by Philippe Sands became the book club selection for our next Book Club meeting. It differs from all the other books...
View ArticleHamas, Gazan Terrorists Destroy Land
Click and Watch This!Farms and agriculture have been destroyed by the Arab Gazan Hamas terror kites. Various sites and communities in the Eshkol Regional Council and the Sha’ar Hanegev regional council...
View ArticleParshat Shlach, The Majority Voted "No"
I must admit that this week's Torah Portion of the Week, Parshat Shavua, Shlach Lecha, Numbers 13:1–15:41, is one of my favorite. It's not as simple and optimistic as my all time favorite Lech Lecha,...
View ArticleChodesh Tamuz Tov
On Shabbat we blessed the upcoming new month, Rosh Chodesh, ראש חודש. I suggest clicking on the pictures from the siddur to get a better look. The lines I underlined gave me quite a thrill this month....
View ArticleFrom Jerusalem to Jerusalem, Great Kotel Tunnel Activity
Last week, as part of the senior citizens program I attend in Ulpanat Ofra Girls High School we were taken to Jerusalem Old City for the Tunnel Tour. OK, well, to be honest I wondered if I'd be bored,...
View ArticleGUEST POST: Who Are the Palestinians
Who Are the Palestinians?by Yashiko Sagamori -- 2002 November 25Yashiko Sagamori is a New York-based Information Technology consultant.(a guest post by Mr....
View ArticleShould We in Israel Care What Diaspora Jews Think? Part 1
There have been headlines and articles all over the media about how"American Jewry" doesn't approve of Israeli politics and policies.Should we care?How do they, the pollsters and writers define...
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