Sderot under attack
We visited Sderot yesterday. Leaving Nitzan we gave a lift to a Gush Katif student learning in the Sderot Hesder Yeshiva combining Torah studies and army service.
"How are you holding on?" I asked.
"Okay. It's...
How will Israel cope with expected Arab civilian deaths?
Missiles from Gaza are now being fired from populated areas in Gaza.
The Sderot Media Center filmed a missile fired from the roof top of an apartment building in Gaza which can be seen in...
Inside the Palestinian Refugee war in the UNRWA camps in Lebanon
In the last several days world attention has been drawn to the Nahr al Bared UNRWA refugee camp in northern Lebanon, where Lebanese Armed Forces have entered and are doing battle in order to...
Remarks by U.S. Security Coordinator LTG Keith Dayton
In response to a question about Israel's security raised by subcommittee ranking member Mike Pence (R-Indiana), Dayton assured the members, "Nothing we do to strengthen the Palestinian's security capability will be targeted against Israel......
A New Contract
"Your people are my people and your G-d is my G-d," said Ruth the Moabite to Naomi her mother-in-law, and she joined the Jewish people, and "Boaz redeemed her and she begat Obed and...
Ya’alon: Disengagement cause of Lebanon war
Former IDF Chief of Staff Moshe Ya'alon said he sees a clear connection between last summer's disengagement, the escalating situation in southern Israel and the Second Lebanon war.
"Forty years after the Six Day War,...
The words of Rav David Zeller, who died today
The Tree of Life
By: Rabbi David Zeller zt"l
http://rebshlomo.org/the-tree-of-life
For the most part, we live in a world that doesn't acknowledge the existence of the Self, the Soul or of God. Where it is acknowledged, it...
From Israel: Getting Hotter
The Security Cabinet today approved attacks against Islamic Jihad and Hamas commanders responsible for the current Kassam escalation. There will be both air and ground operations, with attacks on arms supplies as well.
And, indeed,...
When PR firms replace Israel’s democratic process
Since the genesis of the Oslo process in 1993, successive governments of Israel, under a binding legal and moral obligation to demand a cessation of virulent anti-Semitic incitement as the condition for negotiation and...
“Benchmark” Dangers
I would like to focus on a recent Post column by Evelyn Gordon, entitled, "Benchmarks for a bloodbath," because I consider it so important. Gordon says:
"US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is not purposely...