“Ouch!! Confronting Truth, Because We Must!!” The world is full of incidents that it would be easier, more comfortable, to avoid confronting – but which we must meet head on because truth matters. In the case I am going to address here, it matters a great deal indeed. ~~~~~~~~~~ In …
Read More »Into the Fray: “Terror”, tigers and tabby cats…
One cannot but think that if another country treated Jews, wearing “kippot” and “peyote”, the way Jewish minors, accused of “terror” are treated in Israel, it would surely be engulfed in a wave of outrage and condemned for blatant antisemitism. This was a week, in which there was much for …
Read More »Meir Ettinger and “Administrative Orders”
Be’er Sheva district court judge Yisrael Pablo Axelrod on Sunday rejected the petition to release Meir Ettinger from his administrative detention for several hours on Monday so as to attend the brit milah (circumcision) of his firstborn son. Ettinger has been held for the past eight months without trial or …
Read More »Arlene from Israel: It Is Time.
No good news will start this posting, my friends. That’s not because there isn’t any – there is! and I’ll get back to sharing it next posting – but because it is time for me to write about Duma once again. There is nothing redeeming about this situation, but I …
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