The appraisals of Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the UN range from an exercise in futility to an address worthy of the new leader of the free world (especially against the backdrop of Obama’s tepid remarks).
Whatever one may think of the UN speech, I have found Netanyahu’s address before the Jewish American leaders at the 92nd [...]
Posts from ‘September, 2009’
Netanyahu at the 92 Street Y
From Mahmoody to Goldstone and back
While reading Betty Mahmoody’s For the Love of a Child (the sequel to Not Without My Daughter), I got an insight into the folly known as the Goldstone Report. What’s the connection, you may ask? Read on.
As a mother, I wholeheartedly understand Betty Mahmoody’s motivation for fleeing Iran to bring up her daughter in a [...]
Tour of Jerusalem (in 4 minutes)
After living in and near Jerusalem for more than 15 years, I have finally found my favorite take on the city.
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Thank you @CharlieKalech for sharing this on twitter.
Motivating Atonement
With Yom Kippur less than 24 hours away, I would like to share a novel thought I heard from Rabbi Reuven Fireman.
Though a person’s ability to mend his ways through teshuva (repentance) is a very basic concept in Judaism, like every other rule it has an exception. The Talmud states one and only case in [...]
On modesty and spirituality
A Mother in Israel blogged about a sign from a Jerusalem playground, which had called on women maintaining a high level of tzniut (modesty) to stay away from other women, dressed in a more relaxed fashion. Most people have a gut feeling that this kind of segregation within a community is wrong, but in my [...]
