Shachar
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,...