Victory and Resilience alongside Despair: Passover 2025
Count the number of Passover Seders held this year in Israel and the Diaspora (and the latter get two, one for each side of the family) and that is a measure of our victory....
Author: Sheri Oz
Author John Matthews should try playing peace-maker in his own sandbox
Author John Matthews has just written an article with the boastful, pretentious title, “The Ultimate, Definitive Peace Plan.” Matthews is like all those who come up with all kinds of peace arrangements for Israel,...
Mercy or Justice? A question that concerns not only Israel.
A Facebook post from 17 January resonated with me and I offer it to you for your reflection. It is still relevant today. One of my kids (not mine, Sara’s) told me yesterday that...
Trump’s Plan: Transfer is bad, racist, right? Maybe it’s racist to be opposed to this
Yes, when you call Trump’s Plan ‘transfer,’ it sounds really bad. Scornful. Leans toward a situation in which you can call Israelis that thing we are afraid of being called: racists. How dare we...
Tal Hartuv talks about justice, mercy, and risking letting go
After having been a strong spokeswoman combatting the Palestinian Authority’s pay-for-slay salaries-and-retirement-plan for terrorists, Tal Hartuv went silent for a number of years. After Oct 7th, she began speaking publicly again. In this interview,...
Hostage Deal: Both Sides of the Coin
We ALL want ALL the hostages home. We all want the surviving hostages reunited with their families and beginning the work of rehabilitation and building their futures and we want the bodies of the...
Israel’s “Sophie’s Choice” hostage deal would drive anyone to drink
In American author William Styron’s novel, Sophie’s Choice, Sophie was forced, at Auschwitz, to choose which of her two children would be sent to the gas chamber and which would live. Should she have...
What good is a law if the courts do not uphold it? Who gets hurt by that?
The NGO Regavim has submitted a request to the Attorney General to open criminal investigations against former MK Mohammad Barakeh. The crime? In the words of Regavim’s letter: Mr. Barakeh is allegedly acting as...
