Zionism & Aliya

During the first ten years I had this pro-Israel blog there were periods of furious activity and periods of almost total inactivity. For th...

I find myself deeply disturbed by the fact that Kay Wilson . an Israeli Jewish victim of Arab terrorism, is under attack for somehow not bei...

On December 27th an unusual pro-Israel activist, Fred Maroun , published a piece in The Times of Israel titled Have American Jews Become a L...

Back in 2006 I wrote about the comments to this blog , the ones filled with hatred and vitriol and the ones filled with nothing but Palestin...

During the current conflict between Israel and Hamas I’ve been watching, listening to and reading a wide variety of media. Mostly it’s been...

In 1926 three brothers left their homes in Munkatsch ( Mukachevo ) in what was then Czechoslovakia. (It's western Ukraine today.) They...

I grew up on the progressive rock of the '70s. Mostly we heard US and UK bands in the States, but some European bands, particularly Ita...

Back in 2007 I wrote what supposed to be the first of a series of posts on Palestinian Mythology, tackling "Arab" East Jerusalem ...

I made a big pot of bean and leek soup (with carrots, garlic, a little bit of onion, a finely minced habanero pepper to add a little kick, ...

An open letter by blogger Paula R. Stern to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry echoes much of the right wing commentary I've seen comin...

[NOTE: Originally written as a review for Amazon.com ] Cello music can be dark. It can be downright dismal. Listen to David Darling's ...

Before I start writing again about current events which I find truly disturbing I wanted to post something different, something from a time ...

[Notes: Posted after Shabat was over. A rare cross-post from my Entropy general purpose blog .] For the first time since November, 2005 I...

The only alternative to war is peace. The only road to peace is negotiation. - Golda Meir I believe however that peace is attainable regar...

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. -Moshe Dayan The late Moshe Dayan was a wise man...