At five thirty in the morning last Wednesday, my husband was awakened by a phone call from our son, Noam, in Beer Sheba. “Don’t worry, dad, we’re in our safe rooms at home and we are okay.” He made the call because the sirens went off, after a missile came perilously close to that...
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Revolution and turmoil continue throughout the Middle East, with Moammar Qaddafi’s brutal suppression of the uprising in Libya earning the majority of headlines. But in tiny Bahrain, events are unfolding that may have tremendous consequences for the entire region. On March 14, the Gulf Cooperation Council, led by Saudi Arabia, deployed more than 3,000...
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Last Friday night, five members of the Fogel Family, Udi, 36, Ruthie, 35, Yoav, 11, Eldad, 4, and Hadas, 3 months, were stabbed to death by Palestinian terrorists as they were asleep in their beds in the Israeli community of Itamar,  during the Sabbath. The terrorists have been specifically linked to Fatah’s Al Aqsa...
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America is a nation that was born in religious freedom. As a community,  Jews have found safe harbor and  true emancipation on these shores.  When my father came here, fleeing Nazi Germany, he cried when the ship passed the Statue of Liberty. He and his generation profoundly loved what this country stands for. He...
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As the political earthquake continues to rock the Middle East, one standard complaint has been notably absent. We have heard nothing from the people on the Middle East and North Africa streets about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In fact, the Palestinians themselves have been relatively quiet throughout this period. The words, “Israel,” “Zionism” and “Palestinian”...
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Sitting in their palaces, the Saudi princes have watched with a growing sense of dread the seismic shifts taking place in the Middle East. Unlike so many pundits in the West, the Saudis have had no illusions about the likely results. As President Obama called for Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to step down, the...
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