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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 […]

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 […]

http://blogs.jpost.com/content/waiting Waiting June 27, 2014 There are many people in Israel who feel like these past two weeks have been the longest two weeks in their lives. Since the moment the abduction became public knowledge, the tension is palpable.  There’s more unknown than known. Optimism flips to pessimism and then back again. Emotions overcome intellect, but then the mind overtakes […]

http://blogs.jpost.com/content/celebrating-hebron-liberation-day Celebrating Hebron Liberation DayMay 29, 2014 Forty eight years ago it couldn’t have happened. Dozens of Israeli men and women, in uniform, standing in formation, in the plaza outside Ma’arat HaMachpela. Yesterday we celebrated Yom Yerushalayim – Jerusalem Day, the anniversary of the liberation of the holiest city in the world, Jerusalem. Foreign occupation, beginning some 2,000 years ago […]

The Hebronization of YitzharMay 7, 2014Iyar 7, 5774,   The year was 1996. Shimon Peres signed away Hebron, chopping the city into two pieces, the larger abandoned to Arafat. But then the miracle happened. Bibi was elected. The Messiah had arrived. Hebron was saved. Except that in January, 1997 the Messiah was revealed as a phony. Implementing the Hebron Accords, […]

David the Nachalite Thursday May 01, 2014 A couple of days ago a new youtube video surfaced, filmed just outside my Beit Hadassah home in Hebron. It shows an Israeli soldier, guarding on the road outside the building, being first verbally, and then physically attacked, first by one Arab, and then by a second, who joined in. The soldier, realizing he is […]

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SederApril 13, 2014 Tomorrow night we will mark a holiday Jews have been celebrating for some 3,500 years. That is, the miraculous exodus from Egypt, that is, the birth of the Jewish people, as a nation.  I guess that means we’ve been around for a long time. On the eve of Pesach – that is, Passover, we conduct a Seder, […]

Purim of Beit HaShalom David WilderMarch 14, 2014 If searching for one word in the Scroll of Esther which embodies the entire story, it might very well be ‘v’naafochhu’, which means, according to Google, ‘to the contrary,’ or perhaps, ‘it all reversed.’ Turned upside down. ‘An unexpected ending.’ During the days of Haman and Achashverosh, towards the end of the […]

Beit HaShalom – Victory at lastMarch 11, 2014 WE WON WE WON WE WON  I COULD KEEP WRITING THESE WORKS A MILLION TIMES AND IT STILL WOULDN’T BE ENOUGH. This afternoon the Israeli Supreme Court rejected Arab appeals concerning  Beit HaShalom in Hebron, thereby paving the way for our return to the building. It might be recalled: Mr. Morris Abraham […]