Tears of Rage, Tears of Conscience

http://blogs.jpost.com/content/tears-rage-tears-conscience Tears of Rage, Tears of ConscienceJuly 23, 2014  A couple of days ago I drove with my son-in-law towards Jerusalem to pick up my daughter – his wife, and their new daughter – our granddaughter. During the trip in, and on our way back, my thoughts wandered – back and forth. A new grandchild. Baruch HaShem. Thank G-d. People […]

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Forward or Backward? A Good Day to Fast

http://blogs.jpost.com/content/forward-or-backward-good-day-fast July 15, 2014 Early this afternoon an article appeared in the Jewish Daily Forward. Authored, in two parts, by the paper’s editor, Missy Jane Eisner, today’s item features yours truly and Hebron. A couple of weeks ago I received a phone call from NY, informing me that Missy Eisner would be arriving and asked if I could give her […]

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Bombs Away!

http://blogs.jpost.com/content/bombs-away Bombs Away! July 11, 1014 There are different kinds of bombs. Presently we are experiencing bombs falling on Israel, launched by a terrorist government whose goal is the demise of the State of Israel and the annihilation of all its Jewish citizens. Simultaneously Israel is returning the favor, not in an effort to kill all Gazan Arabs, rather to […]

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Those were the Days…

http://blogs.jpost.com/content/those-were-days%E2%80%A6 July 04, 2014 July 3, 1976 was a Shabbat. I had graduated from university a month earlier and had been accepted to be a counselor for a Jewish Agency summer group tour in Israel. Fortunately I was escorting a group of college-age youth, meaning that when they left back to the US, after the six week excursion, I wouldn’t […]

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Sur m’ra v’Aseh tov – Destory the evil and do good

http://blogs.jpost.com/content/sur-mra-vaseh-tov-destory-evil-and-do-good Sur m’ra v’Aseh tov – Destory the evil and do good July 2, 2014 My statement to the media at a press conference yesterday at Yeshivat Shavei Hevron, here in Hebron. We sat here almost a month ago following the abduction, in hope and prayer that we might meet the press here again at a big celebration and unfortunately […]

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