Get off-the-Beaten-Path on Your Next Visit
Whether you live here and want to know where to visit next time you have a free day to tour around your own country, or you are planning a visit to Israel, you may...
Israel Diaries Blog
Will the Real Palestinian Please Stand Up!
Out there, in the world, all the walls were covered with graffiti: ‘Yids, go back to Palestine,’ so we came back to Palestine, and now the worldatlarge [sic] shouts at us: ‘Yids, get out...
Esau versus Jacob: Naming Names and Telling Tales (Genesis 36:1-43)
Why are the generations of descendants of Esau merely listed in these 43 verses with no stories told about any of them? In contrast, in the next parasha, we are introduced to an in-depth...
Israel’s First Step as a Modern Nation: Appeasement!
True to tradition, many leftist Jews in Israel and outside keep clamouring for far-reaching and potentially dangerous Israeli concessions to a so-called Palestinian people whose leaders do not seem genuinely amenable to a peaceful...
Coming Home: An Israeli in Sierra Leone
1 November 2014. I am writing now from Freetown, Sierra Leone, and in two days I will get off the plane at Ben Gurion Airport. Have you bought into the Ebola hysteria? Will you...
Steven Blowers: Why Do I Call Myself a “Christian Zionist”?
In order for you to understand my answer to this question, I need to share a little background. I first went to Israel in 1976. The previous year, I had met a young Israeli...
Sheri Oz: When a Judge Says She Was Raped
From the article: Allegations of rape seem to bring out all the arm-chair “experts” who talk as if they know the truth about what “really” happened and are not meek about sharing their “expertise”...
Healing from Collective Trauma – Identifying The Real Nakba
When the dust settles and a recently invented Palestinian people will have their own state (or not – but we will assume for the moment that such a state will arise), how will they...
