April 24, 2013 8:59 am A Tale of Two Events: Obama’s Speech vs Natural Wave As seen in Boston this past week, some events grab the public's attention in a way that others do not. For example, take the the near epic response to the...... 1
March 8, 2013 12:41 pm Eli Avidan – One of Israel’s Finest Search on Google for Eliyahu Avidan and about all you will find was that he was taken into custody by Swedish police in March 2002. He was serving as...... 8
February 21, 2013 9:57 pm Tweet for freedom: #FreeHerNow When children first learn the story of Purim, they hear about Queen Esther and how she saved the Jewish people. Two-thousand, five hundred years later, Jewish women are...... 12
January 30, 2013 9:35 am Warning: This story involves a terrorist’s nightmare As new olim and residents of Jerusalem, Israel, we went out one night for a couple of hours to a wedding. Upon returning, we found that our home had...... 50
January 10, 2013 1:08 pm Finally enough snow in Jerusalem My first blog for Times of Israel last year made fun of the hype and the lame amount of snow we had in Jerusalem, Israel. Today things have certainly...... 17
December 4, 2012 10:44 am Pallywood vs. Real World Gee, how nice to read that it was new rockets that boosted morale in Gaza. I needed something to boost my morale, but that sure was not going to...... 16
November 21, 2012 7:46 am Blood is Not for Sale Operation Pillar of Defense - Day 7 and I was in Kiryat Malachi. We visited a building hit by a...... 7
November 18, 2012 10:01 pm Pillar of Defense I woke up this morning to the sound of planes flying overhead. Since Jerusalem, Israel is not on a flight path, hearing planes in the morning means that something...... 19
November 7, 2012 8:32 pm Obama Wins & Jerusalem the Morning After Some Israelis stayed up to see US elections results (and Times of Israel live-Tweeted all night), but most folks like me figured we would go to sleep and see the...... 4
October 25, 2012 7:52 am Hot Palestinian babes and the hasbarista We are bombarded by rockets from Gaza in southern Israel, but there is another front where we have no Iron Dome and, it seems, no defense either: the Internet. In March,...... 34
August 15, 2012 10:14 pm One Getty image gets many more than 1,000 words Yesterday, a large crowd gathered at Ben Gurion Airport to welcome a Nefesh B'Nefesh flight from the US with 351 new immigrants to Israel. Thousands of photos of...... 41
July 30, 2012 7:56 pm Can We Really Trust Romney? The visit of US presidential candidate Mitt Romney to Jerusalem, Israel, has evoked comments and opinions too numerous to list. No question that a visit on a Tisha B'Av, a...... 14
July 17, 2012 5:18 pm Hello Hillary and Good-bye It was hard to resist a press conference with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the end of her short visit to Jerusalem. So I grabbed my camera, press...... 25
May 23, 2012 11:08 pm Jewish American princesses — where have they gone? What a week for Jewish women making headlines! From going undercover at the Asifa, to Chassidic Women not being under covers and stories in Israel of Women at the Wall, Jewish women have been...... 13
May 6, 2012 1:56 pm Arab Women Race Through Jerusalem with Weapons Arab women raced through the center of Jerusalem with weapons? NO... but that would make main stream media news and probably international headlines. Last week the second Susan...... 14