I am getting ready for my first Israeli election and as a service to my American friends (and other readers) I want to create a basic primer. (sort of an Israeli elections 101) Election day will be on Tuesday October 27 and I am anxiously preparing. That includes a) reading everything that I can find Read More

It’s been nine months since I made Aliyah to Israel.   הנני  Hineni   “I am here”. On arrival I had a long list of “steps” I needed to accomplish and tried to celebrate each one as an accomplishment.     Even the small ones like opening a bank account took longer than I imagined and some of the Read More

A critical US Senate race is happening in Michigan that is tearing up progressive Jewish voters who would otherwise be drawn to support the Democratic nominee Abdul El Sayed but are repelled by the antisemitic tone of his primary campaign. Let me be as clear as possible.    I would normally be totally supportive of a Read More

I realize that technically it is closer to 9 weeks until election day and also I have not yet published my 10 weeks until 2026 midterm Elections (Part Two). The reason is that I have severe writer’s block completing part two because it involves my nightmare scenarios about all the steps the Trumpsters will take Read More

It is coming. Midterm elections (November 3, 2026) are ten weeks away. I will discuss in a separate post my fears for how Trump will try to corrupt the election and prevent a peaceful seating of the newly elected congress. (Those fears are intense and reasonable). But first let’s talk about the good news. Everybody Read More

SIX Months in Israel – June 30 A little more than six months ago (December 30, 2025) I flew from LAX to TLV (that’s Los Angeles International Airport to Ben Gurion International Airport for those of you not familiar with airport lingo) and made Aliyah. Upon arrival in Israel (and after having completed a pile Read More

Four Months in Israel. December 30 – April 30 Four months ago today, (December 30, 2025) I flew out of LAX and made Aliyah to Israel. On Friday May 1, I am finally moving into my new/permanent apartment.  My shipment has been in storage for a month and will be delivered on Sunday May 3.  Read More

Two People One Land Anyone with even a modicum of intellectual honesty and critical thinking skills would admit the following: Both the Israelis and the Muslims who call themselves Palestinians have a legitimate historic claim to the land that was once called the British Mandate for Palestine. Both sides (the Israelis and the Muslims who Read More

I am back from my fantastic holiday in Greece. Because of the war (and the consequential shut down of flights from Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv) I ended up driving my car to Eilat (about 4.5 hours from my home in Zichron) and sleeping over in a hotel there before taking a taxi to Read More

We are now in the second month of the war with Iran and the question remains “How does this end?”  Of course, it was obvious all along (perhaps to everyone but Trump and his acolytes) that the Iranian theocracy was not going to simply surrender.  There wasn’t a chance that it would happen merely because Read More