In a city often under fire from Gaza, playing outdoors is unsafe, so a Jewish fund builds a recreation center in a bunker....

SDEROT, Israel, March 10 -- Sderot, hard by the Gaza Strip and the frequent target of rocket attacks, has become central to Israel's telling of its conflict with the Palestinians. From a hill on the outskirts of town, one can easily see the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun, the launching point for....

SDEROT, Israel, March 10 -- Sderot, hard by the Gaza Strip and the frequent target of rocket attacks, has become central to Israel's telling of its conflict with the Palestinians. From a hill on the outskirts of town, one can easily see the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun, the launching point for....

More and more, Israel's military response to Hamas' in Gaza is making some pretty surprising bedfellows. Yaron London is one striking example. He's a thoughtful, veteran tv, radio and print commentator and self-described left-winger from way back. His two shekels worth of punditry on affairs of the ...

Sderot billboard: "Who's next in the lottery?" sits above "Eli's steakiya," and across the street from the beleaguered town's City Hall - also the target of hundreds of Kassam rocket strikes. The red words between the Coke caps: "Lucky corner." Eh... maybe not so much. (Photo: Dave Bender) David Sui...

Shahar Golan has an edge, interesting blog, and great post about a cadre of Israeli tv hard news reporters, who apparently all went to the same leather good shop on their last visit to Turkey ("GREAT prices... ask for Hakim and tell him I sent you"): http://frgdr.com/blog/2008/12/29/tonight-evening-...

There’s so much wrong here that I don’t know where to begin.  So I’ll just  point out that while working for a supposed media organization as a reporter to comment on the war in Gaza, Joe the Plumber has said that the media shouldn’t be allowed to report about wars. Without...

Ok. Now alla'you'se sick, twisted freaks that got off on that title can shove off back under the rock. All the rest: watch the two following videos and let's have a show of hands if you -- by this point -- are still unable to wrap your heads around the idea, that yes, Hamas has, does, and will incul...

I don't often write about the Holocaust, but David Harris, director of the AJC has a really good post at his blog about remembrance, and forgetting, and about Israel and the exploitation of the murder of European Jewry by the detractors of both: "...As Israel pursues its military operation against H...

As of this morning I'm a full week behind. Again. Nonetheless last week's winners are worth calling to your attention. The posts from Council runner-up The Razor and non-Council winner David Keyes both focused on the constant shelling of Sderot - the often daily war crimes that Hamas has been commit...