Where I live, a little seaside town near Haifa, Shabbat was a beautiful day. Blue skies, absolute quiet. The current fighting is nowhere near us. But all that could change in a minute if the terror group Hezbollah, […]
Today I thought about the Yom Kippur War. How we, new immigrants with a two year-old and a newborn, were informed by loudspeakers to go to our shelters. I remember my panic and confusion as I put my […]
There were rumors all day yesterday that “something big” had happened. People shared shadowy internet posts, and the tension built until someone in the government or the army finally said it had to stop. But then it turned […]
As I sit here after a day of nail biting and constant news updates, I cannot know what is happening as the war against Hamas intensifies. Other than the information that there is fierce fighting between Israeli soldiers […]
Just before sending out this column the amazing news reached us that Israel’s ground operation has succeeded in freeing an Israeli woman soldier who had been kidnapped. Words cannot describe the joy in Israel, and the gratitude to […]
I have lost track of time which is no longer measured by the clock or calendar but by changing events tracked on numerous phone apps, none of the information coming from outside Israel, where people have no clue […]
It is hard to be an observant Jew on Shabbat during a war, when your whole being is crying out for information and updates, and your religious obligations force you to turn off the internet, television, and radio. […]
I came across something on Artuz 7 that was too sickening for words. Manu Pineda, a Spanish Communist Member of the European Parliament who lived in Gaza and associates with Hamas and PFLP and was recently denied entry […]
One of the many things filling me with rage these days are the people who continue to voice the opinions they think are even handed, but actually show they want to make sure Israel can’t win. The Ceasefire […]