Cry, the Beloved City
I remember the first time I saw Jerusalem. I was a young bride, and I’d only been in the country for a few days. My husband and I took a bus from our absorption center in Kfar Chabad. […]
Category Archives: Terrorism
The Tiniest Country on the Map
I went to visit my grandchildren the other day. Although it’s a short trip from Jerusalem to Rehovot, I was nervous as I got on the bus, and my anxiety grew as I waited at the well-guarded central […]
CNN: World “News” Network?
On Wednesday afternoon, CNN broadcast a report on the difficulties of Palestinians in Khan Yunis as a result of the Israeli security forces closure of the main road linking two halves of the Gaza Strip. A reminder: this […]
Acts of War, Treason and Plain Stupidity
It is a terrible thing to live in a country in which the lives of citizens are so cheap that there is no such thing as an act of war. Go ahead, shoot into our living rooms, blow […]
Let’s Talk About the Children
Although it has become almost a routine sight on our television screens, I cannot help but gasp every time I see it: children in front of tanks, throwing stones at armed soldiers. And nowhere, but nowhere, is there […]
Peace in our Time
In that pregnant pause between World War One and the unleashing of the unprecedented human disaster that was World War Two, democracies had the opportunity to change history; to forestall Hitler’s naked aggression. What was missing was neither […]
Achieving Jewish Unity: Fighting Our Real Enemies
I was watching the American talk show “Ricki Lake” the other day. The hostess, a plump Jewish girl with a good heart, was trying to reform young haters by letting them spend the day with the object of […]
Meditations on Lebanon
The day Israeli troops began to pull out of their encampments on the Lebanese side of the border, a banner headline in Israel’s most widely read newspaper, Yediot Acharonot, screamed: “The Degradation!” Inside, the paper showed panic-stricken residents […]
Here We Go Again
When the pipe bomb went off in the lively seaside village of Netanya recently, I remember thinking: Oh no. Here we go again. The bombings. The “I can’t condone” of the Palestinians (why can’t they say “We condemn?”) […]