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Blood-shed or Compromise: Which is preferable April 3, 2006 Two months ago, on February first, over 1,600 police participated in destroying the Jewish community of Amona, on the outskirts of Ofra, in the Benjamin region of Israel. As a result of massive police brutality, over three hundred and fifty people needed medical care and/or hospitalization. Several days prior to this, […]

Law-and-order or politics? On Jan. 19, Minister Tzippy Livni, quoted in Ha’aratz newspaper ‘warned that “the conflict between settlers and the government is a struggle for supremacy.”‘ Acting Prime minister Ehud Olmert “declared war on law-breaking settlers in the West Bank… and described illegal acts by settlers as “the undermining of the rule of law.”‘ What is the cause of […]

Sodom and Gomorrah January 24, 2006 In 1983 Deli Landau, then 19 years old, left London to live in Israel. A few years later she married Menachem, and for over twenty years the couple has lived in Hebron. Menachem is the principal of the Kiryat Arba Religious Junior High School for boys. Deli, in her words, specializes in mops and […]

Long Live the Youth of Israel! January 16, 2006The Jewish Community of Hebron has come under invasion by the Israeli police and other security forces. This morning, for the 2nd time in two days, dozens and dozens of police, border police and riot squad members invaded the Avraham Avinu neighborhood in Hebron.The background: History – (See http://www.hebron.com/articles/murderedtwice.htm)At the present: Two weeks ago an […]

V’Shavu Banim l’Gvulamby David WilderThe Jewish Community of HebronNovember 24, 2005  This morning, while eating breakfast, my eye caught an article in a local paper. Submitted by Kiryat Arba resident Yeshovev Friedberg, it relates a true story which I don’t recall having heard before. By the time I’d finished reading, it had caught not only my eye, but also my […]

Ma’arat HaMachpela: The Roots of the Jewish People by David Wilder The Jewish Community of Hebron Erev Parshat Chaye Sarah   The Torah teaches us that Avraham, sitting outside his tent following his brit milah, seeing three men approaching, ran to fix them a meal. When he entered the sheep pen to prepare fresh meat, a calf ran away. As […]

DAVID WILDER , THE JERUSALEM POST Nov. 16, 2005 During the past several weeks, over 100 members of the Likud Central Committee have come to Hebron to see, feel and experience the first Jewish city in the Land of Israel. They’ve come mostly to view Jewish property that is inaccessible to Hebron’s Jewish community. The story properly begins in 1807 […]

Murdered Twice?by David WilderThe Jewish Community of HebronNovember 6, 2005 On March 26, 2001, an Arab sniper shot and killed 10 month old Shalhevet Pass. As a result of that murder, Hebron residents redeemed, renovated and repopulated Jewish property stolen from Hebron’s Jewish community following the 1929 riots, massacre and expulsion. That neighborhood, “Mitzpe Shalhevet” is presently on the brink […]

Succot, October 19, 2005   When I received information about the shooting at the Gush Etzion junction last week, my first thought was, ‘where is my daughter?’ Ophira was in Jerusalem and frequently comes home to Hebron, ‘tramping’ or hitching in Americanese, from the Gush Etzion intersection. I tried calling her cell phone, but she didn’t answer. I tried a […]

HomeErev Yom KippurOctober 12, 2005Erev Yom Kippur. There’s a flyer floating around titled, “No Forgiveness, No Pardon, No Atonement.” Someone wrote to me asking, ” I’m confused, I’m sitting in Jerusalem, and everywhere I go, people are talking about slichot, penitence, humility… and yet there are these messages saying Lo N’Shlach.. we won’t forgive — have we changed Jewish theology? […]