But Zion said, “LORD has forsaken me, and Lord has forgotten me.”



“Can a woman forget her nursing child and have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, but I will not forget you. Behold, I have inscribed you on the palms; your walls are continually before Me. Your children hurry; your destroyers and devastators will depart from you."

Yeshayahu 49:14-17





These words are read in public as words… Continue

Then Barak said to her, "If you will go with me, then I will go; but if you will not go with me, I will not go."

She said, "I will surely go with you; nevertheless, the honor shall not be yours on the journey that you are about to take…"

(Shofetim 4:8-9)



These verses have been echoing through my mind for a week now. That's how long we've officially known that Illinois Senator Barack Obama will be the Democratic nominee for… Continue

It's been a while since I spent "A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney." 60 Minutes isn't a big draw in Israel (a lot of us are still bitter about Bob Simon's Middle East coverage), and we barely get one station on our TV. But now that it's available in podcast form, I have renewed my acquaintance with Andy, Morley… actually, they're the only old-timers left. Little did I expect that a three-minute segment—which, on the face of it, had nothing to do with… Continue

"It wasn't in a skanky way… I mean I had a blanket on. And I thought, 'This looks pretty, and really natural.' I think it's really artsy."

That was Miley “Hannah Montana” Cyrus’s original view of her provocative photo shoot with Annie Leibovitz for Vanity Fair. Eventually, she backtracked and issued an apology, but the damage had already been done—not so much to the 15-year-old Disney star’s career, but to her image she presents for her tween… Continue

“…from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into a holiday”—that’s the famous line from Ester (9:22), but last night it was the reverse. On Rosh Chodesh Adar Sheni 5768, our gladness turned to sorrow and our holiday into mourning with the horrific news of the massacre at Yeshivat Merkaz HaRav. 8 young students, all but one of whom were teenagers, were mercilessly gunned down by an Arab from East Jerusalem who had worked as a driver for the yeshiva.… Continue