Month: November 2008

Elie’s unit is trying something new. The bottom line is that he gets home more often…for a shorter period of time. He was home this […]

Our soldiers, who fight in the army of Israel, are soldiers of our people, soldiers of our nation. It would be pretentious to say they […]

A young couple goes to India – no, not to meditate in the eastern ways, but to create a marker of home. Thousands of Israelis […]

Congratulations to Israel’s Olympic Chess team. In Tuesday’s match, they won their first medal ever, a silver, in the Dresden Olympics. Israel beat Holland in […]

A few years ago, I read an amazing, touching book by Sherry Mandell called, “The Blessings of a Broken Heart.” It’s the story of her […]

When my son entered the Israeli army, I knew right away that he was entering a whole new world. What I didn’t know, was that […]

Last year, in September, according to most sources, Israel’s air force bombed a building in Syria. According to the New York Times and others, the […]

Israelis have long accepted the double standards of the United Nations. It becomes so embarrassingly clear, year after year, resolution after resolution, that the United […]

Two more rockets were fired at the southern city of Sderot yesterday. They hit in or around the city after midnight, when most were asleep. […]