“One hears a great deal these days, from people whose vision is shorter even then their memories, about the wisdom of international guarantees as a means of assuring Israeli security. I can’t imagine a more misdirected policy than to ask Israel, which has been the model of self reliant ally, to transform itself into an […]

Introduction by Senator Alfonse M. D’Amato The friendship between the United States and Israel has been anchored in shared values, common strategic interests, and respect for each other’s independence. Israelis have always insisted on fighting their own battles, a position that the U.S., with its own battles to fight elsewhere around the globe has deeply […]

As can be seen from the long intervals between letters, I find it difficult during these hard times to sit down and concentrate long enough to be able to write these articles. Just one week ago, terrorists infiltrated the community Itamar. They entered a house killing four of the family members and wounding several others. […]

Two weeks ago before the holiday of Shavuot, with the help of one of my sisters in law, I finished packing the last of our boxes containing clothes, pictures, dishes, etc. As I stood for a moment in my old kitchen which looked like a storage room full of boxes I thought of our moving […]

Every year shortly after the last boxes of Passover dishes are neatly stored away, and people have resumed work as usual, the citizens of Israel take a day to stop and remember the fallen soldiers. As the air raid sirens wailed noting the beginning of Memorial Day and the members of our community along with […]

Both before and during the Passover Holiday this year, a dark cloud of mourning lingered over the festive atmosphere. Almost every day news of at least one terror attack swept through the country. Listening at least once a day to the hourly news has become something you do in order to share in the pain […]

From someone living far away it must be hard to imagine what life is like now, here in the holy land. People are apprehensive before the hourly news since most probably it will tell of another terror attack. Everyone knows that a terror attack means innocent people killed or wounded, maybe even crippled for life. […]

Two weeks ago during the Shabbot evening prayers, Arabs shot a 60 kilogram bomb into our community from a house bordering Kfar Darom. The bomb made a 2 foot wide hole in the concrete wall which surrounds part of Kfar Darom. Miraculously it missed the soldiers’ barrack by just 3 feet and finally stopped in […]

As I descended the steps leading from the airplane to the Ben Gurion Airport runway I was overwhelmed by mixed feelings. While I was already missing my friends and family back in Florida, I was excited to get back home to Kfar Darom. To my pleasant surprise our home, after many nights of Mordechai’s sleep […]

Last week, on the last night of Chanukah, as Mordechai, Chana, and I watched the dancing flames of our Chanukah menorah I thought about the weeks before and the weeks that would follow. At approximately 7:30 in the evening, three weeks ago, several terrorists shot at a group of four cars driving on the main […]