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Category Archives: News
Special Edition
This post, like most of my posts in recent months, was supposed to be about my trip up north last week with Yad Ben Zvi to Second Temple era sites around the Kinneret (Sea of Galilee). But the events of … Continue reading
A Little Fresh Air
I can hardly believe it has been almost two months since I last posted! At the time, I wrote that music is my only refuge from the insanity all around me – but that isn’t quite true. I find it’s … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, History, News, Uncategorized
Tagged Caesarea, Herod, Judaea, Rabbi Akiva, Roman Aqueducts, Second Temple, The Apostle Paul
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Music in the Desert
Bombarded as I am – as we all are – by news reports from all sides, I am often so angry, I burn to write and share my feelings with readers of this blog. For example, I promised to write … Continue reading
Posted in Daily Life, Music, News, Uncategorized
Tagged Israel-Gaza War, Music in the Desert Festival, Rachel Bluwstein-Sela
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We Have No Unknown Soldiers
“The IDF has authorised the publication…”How I have come to dread those words, which open the first news broadcast of the morning, and often the last bulletin of the evening, almost every day now. They presage the announcement of the … Continue reading
Posted in Daily Life, News, Uncategorized
Tagged Battalion 13, Golani Brigade, Israel-Gaza War, Tomer Greenberg
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Looking for a Light in the Darkness
This evening is the first night of Hanukkah, the 8-day Jewish festival which celebrates the victory of the Maccabees over the occupying Greco-Syrian army and the Miracle of the Oil which, though sufficient for one day only, burned for 8 … Continue reading
Posted in Music, News, Uncategorized
Tagged Hanukkah, Israel-Hamas war, Rachel the Poetess, Sounds of Music in the Desert
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Evil All Around Us
I was going to write today about the war in Gaza, but the news this morning opened with a terrorist shooting attack right here in Jerusalem, for which Hamas has claimed responsibility. The vermin who perpetrated the attack are two … Continue reading
How Many Deaths? A New Method of “Crunching the Numbers”
Last week, I mentioned the media rush to condemn Israel for its so-called “disproportionate” response to Hamas’s barbaric and bloodthirsty massacre of Israeli men, women and children on October 7th. I explained the legal definition of “proportionality” – a very … Continue reading
When the Numbers Become Names
Sometimes the magnitude of a tragedy is so great, it is almost impossible to comprehend. When 1,400 human beings, men, women and children, are slaughtered within the space of a few hours, in a well-planned, cowardly attack, all one can … Continue reading
Posted in News, Uncategorized
Tagged Hamas, Hetzroni family, Kibbutz Be'eri, October 7th massacre
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Journalistic “Integrity” – AP, Reuters, CNN and New York Times Style
I have written many times in the past, about the blatant anti-Israel bias of certain (unaccountably) respected media outlets, such as the New York Times, the BBC, CNN, Reuters, Associated Press, the Guardian, etc. A new exposé by the media … Continue reading
Posted in News, Uncategorized
Tagged 7th October massacre, Gaza, Hamas, Honest Reporting, Israel, Journalistic bias
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We Will Remember
Israel was still reeling from the brutal massacre carried out by Hamas and Islamic Jihad vermin from Gaza, the Israel Air Force had not yet sent one plane to attack the Hamas rocket launch pads embedded in the residential areas … Continue reading
THE VIEW FROM THE PALACE 