Most people don’t know that there is a community of 100 Jewish families living on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. In my first year of living in Ma’aleh Hazeitim – in the mostly Arab neighborhood of Ras el-Amud – I tried to shop in the nearby Arab stores in the hopes...
It’s 6:30 a.m., super cold in the desert, and we just went to sleep a few hours ago after a full night of hiking, maneuvering and positioning on IDF reserve duty. But we are up, and there’s even a fire warming our frozen feet, and a cup of coffee proudly made by a...
When the call came in to do a media junket in Kiev I could hardly believe it. Generally, I try to avoid leaving the land of Israel, except to do kiruv work, but I had been chalashing to go to the Ukraine for a few years and finally my opportunity had arrived. Two...
President Obama has reportedly been having trouble sleeping. After one night of particularly bad dreams the President called on his advisors to discuss the matter. He described a series of dreams which in which he saw American-made Chevys and Fords being eaten by some...
Once again our country Israel is at war. The news media has non-stop coverage to the South, and now, even to Tel Aviv. The radio wraps you up in the drama of it all, they don’t attempt to lighten the mood. Rockets fly at us, while our army pounds Gaza, right next...
