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The Marriage of Torah and Washington

First of three parts.  Dateline Jerusalem -- I gave the guest address this week for the English-speaking chapter of a religious women's charity in my...

The End of Jewish Life in Syria

We received bittersweet news this week of a top-secret daring rescue of Syrian Jews from the ravages of civil war in Syria, amidst our...

How Odd? Internet Censors Pro-Israel Messages

Dateline Jerusalem -- Is it just happening to me? Or have you noticed that what is going into your email spam or junk mail...

Weather Thou Goest, I Shall Blow Away

Dateline Jerusalem -- I used to live in a wind tunnel, or so it seemed, in the high desert of California.  Howling winds and...

Reporting from Israel – on One Slanted Leg

Dateline Jerusalem -- The oldest trick.  As Mark Twain borrowed from an old proverb 150 years ago, "A lie can travel halfway around the...

Cowardly Side of Arab Terrorists

Dateline Jerusalem -- What was it like to live in the 1800s in the American Wild West? Cowboys and lawmen had to wear revolvers...

Tireless Terrorists Never Rest

Dateline Jerusalem -- This week on Shemini Atzeret, the Jewish holiday at the end of the weeklong Sukkot holiday, Jews throughout the world prayed...

Feels Good to be Accidentally (?) Right

Dateline Jerusalem -- I awakened this morning to find a small crack in the bottom of my new laptop computer, and two missing screws,...

Those Aren’t Stones Arab Kids Throw

Dateline Jerusalem -- I have a pet peeve, the media using anti-Israel political rhetoric. Certain words. When it comes to the term "stone-throwing" Arabs...

Cue the Orchestra, Please

Dateline Jerusalem -- It was like waking up in the Twilight Zone.  The stillness in the air, an overbearing gloom, a bizarre yellow sky,...