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While on a visit to Israel this week I noticed a billboard advertisement in Tel Aviv for a Chevrolet Mini SUV and the price tag was 211,000 Shekels that $58,800 approximately double the price you would pay for the same car in the USA. One would think...

Experience has shown that Israel will continue on path of self-destruction irrespective of whether US president is pro-Israel or not As the United States presidential primary season heats up, I am often asked whether Jews have the obligation to work...

To assume that a team that made such disastrous and obvious blunders last summer is able to fix them is to be naïve Many of us who take interest in Israel have been shocked by what has transpired there over the last week. It is inconceivable ho...

Israel often makes Diaspora Jews feel excluded from the Jewish enterprise which is Israel As a British citizen living in the USA and married to an Israeli I have a complex relationship with Yom Haatzmaut (Israeli Independence Day). Yom Hazikaron (Is...

Olmert and his subordinates have handsomely earned their dismal ratings – let us hope that they now get the message and make way for new and responsible leadership to take over Polls out just this week show that 77 percent of Israelis are dissa...

Carter’s latest book, "Palestine Peace Not Apartheid" takes my antipathy for the man to an entirely new level, for in my view with this book he has shown himself to be an antisemite The Israel–Egypt negotiations resulting in the...

Denying Israel's religious authorities the right to decide who is and who is not considered a Jew undermines the Jewish status of Israel and causes the entire character of the Israeli state to fall even further into question The current “Who i...

The number of prominent politicians who have stepped forward to insinuate that the President is guilty before he has been given a fair trial is therefore particularly disturbing.   The accusations against the President of the State of Israe...

The desire on behalf of Jews living outside the land to support Israel is strong. However, it is disheartening when the country has seemingly lost the will to support itself Although it is very difficult for those living in the United States to gaug...

Criticizing any government even if you are not a citizen of that particular government’s country should be the right of all people that live in free societies. Most of us very often do exactly that. I was a vocal opponent of the Oslo accords, t...

Besides the tragic loss of innocent lives in both Israel and Lebanon the Hizbullah rocket attacks have caused considerable other damage below the surface. Families living in central Israel are housing refugees who have fled the rocket attacks on thei...

Before I begin this article the following disclaimer is in order. Coming from a Diaspora Jew, my comments here may offend many Israelis, who will claim that those who do not experience the difficulties of having children in the Israeli army and those...

As the polls close in Israel I am reminded of when, in February 2001, Ariel Sharon became Prime Minister. Sheindy and I were living in Israel at the time. As I left my apartment in central Jerusalem the morning after Ariel Sharon’s overwhelming...

There are conflicting views about the life of Yasser Arafat. France gave him a full state final farewell. Some say that Arafat was a freedom fighter and a hero, who symbolised the suffering and hope of the Palestinian people. Others are more realisti...

Which Jew doesn't cringe in horror at the scene from Fiddler on the Roof where in the middle of a wedding Cossacks appear on horseback to beat innocent Jews? Who would have believed that today, in the modern State of Israel, Jews would act this way t...

Over the last few days together with people all over the world I have been watching the heart-rending scenes that have come out of the Gaza strip. Beyond the immense sympathy I have for the Jewish residents of Gaza and their cause, I am deeply bother...

The terror group that pioneered the concept of the suicide bomber and is hell-bent on killing Jews and destroying Israel is now forming a government within twenty miles of Israel's major population centers. This is bad news for Israel. Anyone who has...

We Jews have tremendous coping power. The "Massacre of the Children" put this power to the test yet again.   The pain and suffering that the "Massacre of the Children" caused is beyond belief. Like all of us, I was deeply pai...

...ten] to arouse the old love and fondness for the Holy Land … so that people volunteer to consecrate themselves to G‑d with a full and generous hand, with one increase after another, from year to year, continually rising a......

The Bible talks about all types of Tzara’at (leprosy) including Tzara’at that inflicts buildings. The Torah relates, “G-d spoke to Moses and Aaron saying: when you arrive to the land of Canaan that I give you as a possession, and I ...