EVERY season has its inviting magic. Each year, as a season rolls around again, I embrace it for its qualities or dimensions I love. Many people detest winter, but no, oh no! not me! I am a Colorado girl through and through. Snow? That white starry sparkly fairy dust? I am in love with it. Simply intoxicated by it.

This past Pesach, just as the holiday ended and I was putting my adorable nephew to sleep, I hugged him. I told him I had the most wonderful week together and how much I was going to miss him. It had been perfect.

The one and only thing more I could have wished for, I mused aloud, was for it to have snowed. I had visions of building him a “snofa” throne to sit on, plus preparing for him kosher-for-Passover snow ice cream! Oh well, it had been such a special Pesach! We talked and read a bedtime story. I kissed him g’night.

MOST observers, right or left, pro-Israel or anti-Israel, would agree that Israeli-American relations are the worst in memory.

Among the many indications is that only 9% of Jewish Israelis think President Barack Obama’s administration is more pro-Israel than pro-Palestinian, according to a Smith Research poll taken during the last week of March on behalf of the Jerusalem Post.

Given how much Israelis love and admire (and emigrate to) America, this level of mistrust is all the more remarkable.

Commentators on the left, of course, blame Israel. For them, this is a no-brainer; blaming Israel is as natural as breathing. Further, Israel is headed by a conservative prime minister and America is presided over by the most pro-left president in its history.