P. David Hornik
TEL AVIV — Thirteen years ago when my mother was dying of cancer, her rabbi was a major support figure. The phrase “her rabbi” may imply religiosity, but actually she wasn’t very religious — not interested in God as an…
Lior Dayan is a grandson of Moshe Dayan (1915-1981), the mythic Israeli soldier-kibbutznik who rose to the ranks of chief of staff, defense minister, and foreign minister. Lior is a far cry from his granddad: he got out of the…
With secular Turks fearing a growing Islamic trend in the country, on Friday Turkey’s military — a staunchly secular institution that has saved the country from Islamism a few times in the past — issued a none-too-veiled threat: It should…
Turns out there’s now a baby boom in the Galilee, the part of Israel that was hardest hit — that is, shelled incessantly by Hizballah missiles — in last summer’s war. The medical director of a regional hospital says “the…
Everyone warns you about the heat and humidity, and my reply is just as ritual — I work at home, I always dress comfortable, it doesn’t bother me. And what I say is not just a deflection, but true. Also…
People who celebrated Judge John Jones’s recent ruling that Intelligent Design is a “religious view” and “not science,” so that it is “unconstitutional to teach ID as an alternative to evolution,” are satisfied because religion and science have been kept…
This week the Jerusalem Post published a column by one of its editors, a British immigrant in Israel, lamenting her estrangement from friends back in Britain who keep seeing virtue in Palestinian terrorism. The next day, this letter appeared by…
JERUSALEM — Yet another Qassam rocket fired from Gaza hit Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s ranch in the Negev Desert on Tuesday, WorldNetDaily reports. The rocket, which according to Abu Abir of the Popular Resistance Committees “was intended to kill Sharon,”…
Reuters reports a study by Italian scientists that says falling madly in love is a process linked to a molecule called nerve growth factor (NGF). According to their findings, published in a journal with the reader-unfriendly name Psychoneuroendocrinology, the levels…
JERUSALEM — “‘Let them give us compensation like they gave Nisanit and Elei Sinai, and we’ll leave,’ one resident said recently” — thus reports the Israeli daily Haaretz. Nisanit and Elei Sinai were two of the recently evacuated Gaza communities….
