Israeli singer Idan Amedi lighting Chanukah candles before performing at a children’s concert for 400 orphans and victims of terror. _ I received less than an hour of warning: “We’re flying down south by helicopter to visit a Chanukah Camp for about 400 kids. They’re all orphans or such that have lost a brother or […]
Dismantling a rocket piece that crashed in a home in Israel. “Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the Lord your God, He it is that goes with you; He will not fail you, nor forsake you” (Deut. 31:6). _ The new year brought a different Middle […]
The following is the opposite of the tailored message presented by the Western news media. And yet, these are the voices of large numbers of Arabs, most of them Muslims, speaking about Hamas, Hizbullah, Islam and the Quran, Israel and the Jews, and protestors. –Editor Gazan refugees speak out A: “May Allah take revenge on […]
A vote in the US Congress caused me to revisit an old subject, proving it is still very relevant today. The following is based on a lecture my father, Dr. Herbert Hillel Goldberg, presented in the 1980s on the crucifixion of Jesus. The accusation that the Jews bear sole responsibility for the crucifixion of Jesus, […]
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 […]
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) […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]