Oh, When?
We took a trip to Europe last month to visit our daughter, who is doing her second year of National Service teaching Hebrew in a Jewish school in Toulouse. El Al was very helpful, giving out tickets to […]
Category Archives: Israel
The Unraveling Kippah
The symbol of the election campaign for the National Religious Party is the unraveling knitted skullcap. Vote for the Mafdal, the commercial says, or all our wonderful educational institutions, our youth groups, our synagogues will go under. As […]
A Phyrric Victory
So, you think you’ve won, do you – all of you who organized and participated in that great show of yeshiva power this Sunday in Jerusalem? And, what then, exactly, is your victory? If you think your show […]
The Rule of Law
Last week Rabbi Porush the son explained to us on Gabi Gazit’s morning show why the haredim have every right to rob the country’s treasury to support haredim who are too holy to work. What was clear from […]
Count Me Out, Rabbi Porush
We see it all the time. The secular talk show host invites the haredi guest – usually Rabbi Porush, Benizri or Ravitz – and what ensues is a strange dialogue in which the real issue is never actually […]
It’s Too Late
I was one of those awful people who shouted at Yitzhak Rabin and called him a traitor. I stood behind the barricades, held up my placard and screamed: “Boged.” I remember it clearly. He came right past us, […]