Kishkushim خربطات קישקושים

BY AMOS If the recent unrest in Jerusalem spirals out of control, the international news media will surely rush to find some symbolic spark...

BY CARMIA The Second Intifida, which began in 2000, has long fizzled out but the memorials remain. Today is the seven-year anniversary of a...

Coin of Herod the Great as seen tonight on Ebay going for $9.95 before tax and shipping. The current issue of National Geographic spotlight...

Earlier, I heard the Gilad Shalit tape that was released by Hamas today. It was painful to listen to him speaking from captivity, and even h...

Sigmund Freud and his daughter Anna (Source: Freudianslip ) I am not sure about Uzi Benziman 's conclusion, citing Anna Freud, that ...

Map of Gaza (May 2005, Perry Castaneda ) The mantra that we are hearing in the wake of Hamas's victory in the Gaza Strip is rather famil...

The Kisufim ("Yearnings") Crossing, marked in orange The thwarted attempt by Palestinian militants to capture an Israeli soldier n...

למען אחי ורעי - אדברה נא שלום בך "For the sake of my brothers' and companions, I will now say 'peace be within you,'" ...

Bitkhonists stirring the Helba Pressure is mounting among the type of " bitkhonists," mentioned previously by Jeha , for the army...

International media would have had a field day with this, if someone had found a similar quotation from an Israeli citizen ( NYT ): Many res...

Sderot synagogue hit by a qassam. The photograph of R. Ovadia Yosef (right) and the painting of the youthful Baba Sali [I think] (left) wer...

Exodus to Be'er Sheva As I said last week , it was only a matter of time before one of the qassam rockets among the barrage fired at the...

"Ugly Fountain," Berkeley (May 2007) In the question and answer session at a lecture that Jimmy Carter gave here in Berkeley on M...

Berkeley's International House, May 2007 The distinguished journalist and historian Tom Segev has been at Berkeley for the past semester...

Olmert plans to ride it out The government passed its first post-Winograd and post-demonstrations challenge with flying colors. In three no-...

Be'er Sheva, not Sderot UPDATE (Monday night) : The IDF has presented its current list of options for responding to the qassam firing. ...

Berkeley students lining up to see President Carter (May 2, 2007) If you put 1,500 college students in a room and make them listen to 30 min...

Cpl. Gilad Shalit There has been quite a bit of speculation recently about the prospects of a deal that would see the release of Corporal Gi...