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An American fireman in Israel

This past summer, waiting in a check-in line before a flight home to Israel from Los Angeles, a gentleman behind me began a conversation with me. A fireman from the state of Utah, he was heading back to northern Israel as a volunteer to fight forest and building fires caused by the constant shelling from […]

Good News: New air ventures take flight amid war

Only an Israeli would start a company in the middle of a war. Yet that’s what the founders of airHaifa did, forming the first new airline in Israel in 35 years. The inaugural flight from Tel Aviv to Eilat was on October 1. Other flights from Haifa and Tel Aviv to Eilat and Larnaca (Cyprus) […]

A hundred Muslims working for the White House

Surrounded by critics of Israel, Muslim advisers prominent among them, US President Joe Biden has a spotty history of support for the Jewish state. Already as a young senator in 1982, he threatened to oppose aid for Israel. After the tragedy of October 7 last year, he openly empathized with Israel and its right to […]

Negotiating to find solutions

Our system of Western values teaches that if we sit down and negotiate, we can find a solution that is best for everyone. We will compromise if necessary and resolve our differences. That’s the idea behind the United Nations, of course: Providing a forum for reasoned, calm discussion to solve the problems of a region […]

Some thoughts about Psalm 83

A few years ago, a woman from Switzerland sent us a request for prayer because her dog was lost. It was an unusual request, but I understood that people love their pets. I am sure we prayed the woman would find her dog. She had put up posters in her neighborhood. I also remember a […]

Recalling the stirring words of the rabbi in Munich

On a Saturday morning in 1983 during a European lecture tour, my father and I visited the large synagogue at Reichenbach Strasse 27 in Munich. The Haftarah passage from the prophets, which was read in synagogues worldwide on that Shabbat (Sabbath), included the following verses: “For a brief moment have I forsaken you, but with […]

Made to fit the agenda:

When current US Vice President Kamala Harris met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington in July, the meeting did not go well. Trying to rebrand herself as a strident candidate, Harris berated Netanyahu about Israel’s harsh military campaign in Gaza, the high casualty rate, and the widespread hunger. She is wrong on each point, […]

Not for Jews!

“It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man” (Ps. 118:8). If, by the grace of God, you have lived nearly 100 years (94 to be exact), despite having survived Holocaust murders in your family, you have, unsurprisingly, experienced many important events. Some people will say, “That’s how it was […]

The New World in which we now live

“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” (Isai. 5:20). In the spectrum of claims, counterclaims and outright lies regarding the war in Gaza, truth has become the first victim. Some things, however, we can […]

The Two-State Delusion

It’s ironic. The news media in general portray Israel, its leaders and occasionally even its population as intransigent, unwilling to make the necessary sacrifices to achieve peace between Israel and its neighbors, the Palestinian Arabs. Some world leaders have dared to suggest Israelis should elect other leadership, implying all Israelis share responsibility for the alleged […]