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Two chambers in the heart

To witness the spirit and emotion of an entire, tight-knit community enveloping this nuclear family with palpable support and love . . . these and so many other sacred,...

Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah . . . and Haman

What if this whole Hamas nightmare is calculated and premeditated by Iran, placed as a mere appetizer, a preliminary, a dress rehearsal of sorts, to the main course, the...

Right here, right now

“Mishenichnas Adar Marbim b’Simcha, with the onset of Adar comes in, joy surges” — such is the usual motif for the Jewish month of Adar, in which the often...

Misplaced mercy

When the curiosity and quirk of the lunar calendar presents us with a leap year, thus giving us two months of Adar, we are also given two Purim holidays.

Barrier and insulation

While we read about Israel’s sophisticated, daringly brave operation that thankfully and successfully released a duo of hostages in Gaza straight from the claws of the...

The layers of winter, this winter

It’s been a real gray spell of gloom and dreariness here in New York. It’s not letting up. Each morning I wake up and I don’t even need to part the curtains to...

UNRWA has failed the Palestinians

UNRWA was launched over 75 years ago to deal with the plight of Middle East refugees, including Jews. They bowed out in 1952. But 75 years on, Palestinian Arabs are...

Pierced but unwavering

They ran out of room. The cemetery in Gush Etzion doesn’t have enough space for more graves for soldiers. They need to expand, to dig a new block. “Hutru l’pirsum....

100 days

It’s almost 100 days, yet Hamas, while certainly damaged, is still alive, seemingly going strong, as it continues to launch and send forth rockets over Israel.

The Druze soldier, an only child

Israel is a state made up of mostly Jews, but millions of other citizens, residents and temporary residents, too. As we all know, on Oct. 7, along with Jewish Israelis,...