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Breaking the Chain of PainMarch 19, 2002 It was one year ago, that hideous day, when an Arab terrorist sniper lined up his scope, pulled the trigger and ended the life of 10 month old Shalhevet Pass, hy?d. Shalhevet?s murder touched the lives and hearts of tens of thousands of people around the world and in Israel. Messages of condolences poured […]

Take to the streetsMarch 5, 2002I write this article from New York. When I arrived, on Friday morning, on the way from the airport to our Brooklyn office, I passed a movie theatre, which made me feel right at home – they were screening three movies about Israel. One was called “Return to never-never land,” the second was called “the […]

Ben YairFeb. 18, 2002 Shalom. Years ago, during the Rabin-Peres debacle, then Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin appointed a distant relative of his, Michael Ben-Yair, to the post of Attorney General of the state of Israel. The Israeli Attorney General is one of the most powerful people in Israel, having the ability to decide who will be indicted, and for what […]

ZionismFeb. 11, 2002 Opening Friday’s newspaper, I found an interesting article in the Ha’Aretz magazine, authored by noted left-wing Israeli author A. B Yehoshua. The article, called “Eleven degrees of separation” deals with the issue of unilateral separation, the new-old idea now being espoused by the left as an “alternative” to Oslo. Unilateral separation is, in simple terms, full, or […]

Our fate is sealed February 4, 2002 This is a Voice from Israel from somewhere in the Mediterranean Here is the news. We are ecstatic to announce that the walls have been completed. Again, we repeat, the walls of Israel have been completed, covering seven thousand nine hundred and ninety two square miles, not including, of course East Jerusalem, Judea, […]

Roots, Trees and BranchesJanuary 28, 2002 Today was Tu b?Shvat, the 15th day of the Hebrew month of Shvat, popularly known as the New Year for trees. This holiday has various implications in Jewish law, but also has tremendous symbolic value in our every day life. A tree, as plain as it may appear, is actually quite important. Put simplistically, […]

Tu b’ShvatJanuary 28, 2002 Today was Tu b’Shvat, the 15th day of the Hebrew month of Shvat, popularly known as the New Year for trees. This holiday has various implications in Jewish law, but also has tremendous symbolic value in our every day life. A tree, as plain as it may appear, is actually quite important. Put simplistically, the body […]

Final solutions January 21, 2001 Shalom. Yesterday was the sixtieth anniversary of the Wannsee Protocol, issued in Berlin on January 20, 1942. The protocol begins: “At the beginning of the discussion Chief of the Security Police and of the SD, SS-Obergruppenführer Heydrich, reported that the Reich Marshal had appointed him delegate for the preparations for the final solution of the […]

The Splendor of the ShomronJanuary 1, 2002 A few days ago I participated in a unique tour of Samaria (the Shomron), north of Jerusalem, with some friends visiting from New York. We spent the day with Shilo resident, Eira Rappaport, a wonderful tour guide and an amazing personality. I?d like to try and convey some of what we experienced while […]

Pere’s piece planDec 24, 2001 Yesterday the Yediot Achronot newspaper published its first scoop of the week: Shimon Peres’ new piece plan, in four stages: One – Within six weeks a full cease-fire, including an end to all fighting and terror, an end to all blockades, a freezing of all Yesha communities, an end to all killing and assassinations, and […]