• Beit Hadassah

    LAND FOR PEACE OR PEACE FOR PEACE

    Exactly 20 years ago, Rosh HaShana eve, about 11:30 pm. I was downstairs at Beit Hadassah, near the museum, taking a look at emergency supplies with my friend Uri Karzen, when it started. Massive shooting. Unlike anything we’d heard before.
    Little did we know that this was the beginning of what’d we’d predicted all along, that is, the Oslo war, otherwise known as the 2nd intifada, which continued for over 2 years. And countless deaths.

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Will The Real Jewish People Please Stand Up?!

Several days ago I was on my way to Tel-Aviv to attend a family celebration. About 10 miles from the Beit-Shemesh Interchange, leading to the Tel-Aviv-Jerusalem Highway, I was stunned by what seemed to be a gigantic cloud, hanging in the heavens. The trouble was that it was not a rain cloud, or any other natural cloud, for that matter. […]

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Yizhak, Shimon, Yossi and Shula offer condolences

Hebron-Past, Present and Foreverby David WilderYizhak, Shimon, Yossi and Shula offer condolences  June 29, 1995 Dear Mrs. Kafisha, The Israeli cabinet, meeting in special session, offers its deepest condolences on the tragic death of your son Tier this morning. He was undoubtedly another victim, a sacrifice of the peace process. It is too bad he couldn’t have held out a […]

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Special Report

Special ReportJune 16, 1995 This morning, several minutes after 10:00AM, 19 year-old AvrahamAriel, a Jerusalem resident living in Hebron for the last half ayear, was stabbed while walking from Beit Hadassah towards theAvraham Avinu neighborhood in Hebron. He was stabbed in the chestand wounded seriously. After managing to reach soldiers, Waldmancollapsed. He received life-saving first-aid on the spot and wasrushed […]

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What s it all about…Yitzhak?

What s it all about…Yitzhak?June 8, 1995 Rabin and Peres are still at it, promising changes in IDFdeployment throughout Yehuda and Shomron in the very nearfuture. The target date of July 1, supposedly signalingagreement of the next phase of the Oslo piece accords isaround the corner, three weeks away. Where does Hebron stand in this massive confusion? IfJerusalem s status […]

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First Fruits

First FruitsJune 2, 1995The holiday of Shavouth honors the anniversary of the giving of the Torah to Am Yisrael. However, inthe Torah, this holiday is not referred to as such; rather, it is referred to as the holiday of the first fruits. Thousands of years ago Jews living in Eretz Yisrael would parade to Jerusalem, celebrating the renewedgrowth of the […]

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Hebron at 28 – Hitler’s Youth or Israel’s Strength

This is a direct (translated) quote a small portion of an article appearing in the Israeli Press on April 28. The title of the interview with Israeli Professor Moshe Zimmerman, was: “The Children of Hebron are exactly like Hitler’s Youth.” – “Look at the children of Hebron, they are exactly like Hitler’s Youth. They are inundated from the earliest age […]

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Justice and Liberty for … WHO?

Justice and Liberty for … WHO? May 19, 1995 On  Sunday morning, May 21, a unique and unusual demonstration will commence. Not in Jerusalem, not in Tel-Aviv, not in Haifa. Rather in a small Israeli city called Yavneh. The demonstration, to continue for an entire week, will not be held in front of the home of a politician, at least […]

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Let Your Feet Do the Talking

Let Your Feet Do the TalkingApril 27, 1995 At the time this is being written, the Rabin Government has announced intentions to surrender three army bases in Judea and Samaria to Palestinian forces.  This unrivaled act of treason is beyond the scope of human understanding.      The response of the Israeli People was expressed last Tuesday, during the Passover holiday. […]

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A Covenant of Eternity

Hebron-Past, Present and Foreverby David WilderA Covenant of Eternity May 12, 1995 Last Friday morning, on the 5th of May, (which also happened to be the 5th of Iyar-Israel Independence Day), I, along with my wife Ora, had an overwhelming experience, the likes of which I have never yet encountered in my life. For the previous Thursday evening, at 8:00 […]

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Though I Walk Through the Valley of the Shadow of …

Erev Pesach 5755April 10, 1995Though I Walk Through the Valley of the Shadow of …(Psalms 23) Which shadow? The Psalmist, David, King of Israel,wrote, “Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of de a t h, I will fear no evil, for You are with me,” for,”the L-rd is my Shepherd.” Is this the key phrase “thevalley of […]

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