Category: First-Hand and Investigative
Biographies of Hungarian Jewish artists seem to skip over what they were doing and where they were during World War II. In fact, they often skip over the fact that they were even Jewish...
Northern Israel was under missile attack in summer 2006. This latest unprecedentedly intense bombardment today of southern Israel triggered memories I had of driving to worse-hit places than Haifa way back then. The roads...
Unlike Germany, Hungary has not accepted its part in the Holocaust. The official Hungarian position is that the Nazis made them do it when they occupied Hungary in early 1944. Perhaps they hope that...
What do you do when you love your country and feel so woven into its fabric and then the threads begin to unravel? Sitting before Safwan Mreeh in a new coffee shop in Daliyat-el-Carmel,...
What would you expect to see on a tour of Samaria? What do you expect settlers to be like? A Very Little Bit of Background Samaria is the ancient name of the region based...
“You aren’t really going there, are you?” asked one friend when she heard that I was planning on driving down toward Gaza yesterday morning (11 May 2018) to see for myself what was going...
I went to Kiryat Arba for the Passover Seder this year and I want to tell you something about my visit. Kiryat Arba is a town of about 8000 Jews, founded in 1968, just...
A Jordanian comes along and tells Israelis that Jordan is Palestine and that all our problems will be solved when the whole world recognizes that fact. Everyone will finally get off Israel’s back, bringing...