A 21,000-square-foot bunker of a recreation center was inaugurated this week in Sderot with a small indoor soccer field, video games, fun-house mirrors, a climbing wall, rooms for birthday celebrations and $1.5 million worth of reinforced steel. Not all of the roof is rocket-proof but it has many re...

Just for your information: [The late Tom Anderson, the family doctor in (Camden) this little farm town in northwestern Indiana]...He began seeing strange rashes on his patients, starting more than a year ago. They began as innocuous bumps — “pimples from hell,� he called them — and quickly b...

You'll recall that last year, I managed to be declared a virtual persona noמ grata at official UK Embassy events. Really. Here. And here. Well, there's a related development which Daniel Pinner (but read this) deals with in this edited email I received: Your Majesty, You're Not Welcome I must confe...

To be seen on Canadian television: Canadian broadcast journalist Martin Himel, based in Israel since the 1980s, has produced an ambitious 13-part Vision TV documentary series on religious faith. Twist of Faith focuses on how religion shapes current events and how current events affect belief. and th...

I have not heard of or read anything written by one Patricia DeGennaro until an article of hers appeared on my screen-director (here). Turns out her cv states she's a professor, writer, analyst and consultant and currently, serves as a Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute, Senior Research Fel...

I came up with that slogan after reading a letter of Isi Liebler in the NYTimes today, along with some others, arguing with Roger Cohen's continued outrageous views: Re “Middle East Reality Check� (column, The New York Times on the Web, March 9): To the Editor: Roger Cohen condemns Israel, whose...

Magen Broshi dealt with a new book out on Kathleen Kenyon who "bombarded the press with anti-Zionist and anti-Israel articles and letters − she thought that the Muslims had preferential rights to the Land of Israel because they had been living there for 1,400 years, whereas the Jews had ruled the ...

I finally found the online copy of my letter concerning Menachem Begin that set off someone a bit unstable, one "Shoded Yam" (which is Hebrew for "Pirate"), who slung about in the comments section over at Bernard Avishai's blog (here). And the letter in the LA Times: Checking Begin's military record...

...a senior European diplomat recently cited Israeli settlers as a major obstacle to any progress towards peace...Steve Clemons captured the view of a portion of the foreign policy establishment when he characterized new Israeli settlements as "toxic." To view the settlements this harshly is to acce...

The Pope will be coming to Israel (part of the Holy Land) and there seems to be a problem: Pope Benedict XVI, who confirmed on Sunday that he was coming to Israel in May, will definitely visit the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial, The Jerusalem Post was told on Monday. But he will not tour that part of...