Amid Soot & Smoke Damage, There’s Hope

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Last week on Sunday evening, a fire was set at the Masjid Omar Islamic Center. Then the next day, Mercy Islamic Center was similarly set ablaze, miraculously no one was […]

Reflections From a Balcony in Tel Aviv

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TEL AVIV – I’m sitting on the balcony of my hotel room in Tel Aviv, early morning traffic and a soft Mediterranean breeze providing background music. A few surfers have […]

A Personal Yom HaShoah

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Last night we began the observance of Yom Hashoah v’Hag’vurah (the Jewish National Day of Commemorating the Holocaust and the Heroism) at the Monument to the Martyrs of Zagłębie, just […]

Flowers at Auschwitz

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The Creeping Thistle is no flower. Although it’s reddish-light purple, globe like ball of fluff makes you think otherwise, the aggressive weed is illegal in different parts of the United […]

Saturday Night’s Alright (For Protesting)

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JERUSALEM – The weekly Saturday protests have been a fixture of Israeli life for months in response to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to overhaul the country’s judicial system. And […]