When I received information about the shooting at the Gush Etzion junction this week, my first thought was, “Where is my daughter?” Ophira was in Jerusalem and frequently comes home to Hebron, ‘tramping’ (or hitching in Americanese) from the Gush Etzion intersection. I tried calling her cell phone, but she didn’t answer. I tried a […]

“No democratic country should ever abandon its citizens like this,” stated MK Dr. Uzi Landau on Wednesday after viewing the conditions of Jews expelled from Gush Katif and northern Samaria. Landau, who is running for the leadership of the Likud party, has called for the Likud Party to debate the issue in two weeks’ time […]

The load of misery which Ariel Sharon inflicted on the Jews of Gush Katif has affected the nerves, the hearts and the minds of myriads (conceivably a majority) of the Jews in Israel. In the tragedy of the expulsion an effective supporting role was played by most of the Hebrew media. Shockingly, neither they nor […]

The Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff, Lt.-Gen. Dan Halutz, has stated that Israel has a military option to defeat terrorism and bring it down “very close to zero.” In a detailed interview, Halutz disagrees with the tired argument that there is no military solution to the problem of terrorism. He has said that only […]

Dear S.A. Halevy, Shalom. I don’t know who you are, but your identity is not important. The issue is your article entitled _”Leaving Israel Because I’m Disengaged”_ (http://jewishvoiceandopinion.com/pdf/200509.pdf) . Reading your article, I felt your deep anguish, your almost physical pain as you tried to express in mere words your disillusionment, frustration, and helpless anger […]

Hillel Fendel, writing for Arutz Sheva on Oct. 17, describes the Land of Israel Legal Forum second report to the State Comptroller, entitled, “THE FAILURES IN CARING FOR THOSE UPROOTED FROM GUSH KATIF AND NORTHERN SHOMRON.” “The 19-page report details all that went wrong with the government’s treatment of the residents after their expulsion. The […]

The Gush Katif fact-finding mission of Rabbi Pesach Lerner, the executive vice president of the Young Israel National Council, next took us to our last stop of the day, to the Alon Shvut Yeshiva in Gush Etzion where fourteen young families from the Shirat Hayam settlement were living in the dormitory. The plight of the […]

With Israel’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip now a fait accompli, the question of whether the move was a mistake or not is no longer salient. The fact of the matter is that the withdrawal from Gaza created a new strategic environment for Israel and the central issue today is how Israel will contend with […]

1. Yom (Day of) Kippur has been a breakthrough contribution to humanity, highlighting HUMILITY and SOUL-SEARCHING as a pre-requisite for improving one’s conduct. Yom Kippur encourages individuals to admit that they are FALLIBLE, identify their own wrong-doing, and ask forgiveness for any faut-pas committed (intentionally or unintentionally) against relatives, friends, socially, at work, or otherwise. […]

National Secretary of the Zionist Organization of America You could conceivably quote the dubious opinions of Thomas Friedman and the New York Times relative to the State of Israel and the so-called “peace process” that began on the White House lawn, September,1993. You could refer to the _www.zoa.org_ (http://www.zoa.org/) OpEd, _After Gaza_ (http://www.zoa.org/oped/oped20050902a.htm) , reviewing […]