Beneath the Wings

      You note in your recent statement that all innocents are valued equally, and that the price of  war can not be destruction of "al...

     The ravaging impact of the attack a week ago in Israel’s south has hit me, and every other Israeli, hard. Virtually every Israeli knows...

  I know that once Israel invades GAZA, the destruction and inevitable civilian deaths that will occur, even people who were shocked by Hama...

  The week before last (last week’s album) the 52 frames photo challenge theme was “Lamp”. (I have been doing this weekly for 360 weeks.)...

      [photo:  a glass paperweight of a dove, and a collage of same piece. Photo is mine; do not copy!] Well, it’s early January, and the tr...

     (Photo is mine, all rights reserved) Do you feel a bit like these figurines? A bit trapped by bad habits, and wondering how in the worl...

 Let's face it-we are living in a time of historic challenges, and just about EVERYTHING seems "topsy-turvey".     But we nee...

We all have a tendency to be hard on ourselves- to be aware of our own failings       “I didn’t exercise over vacation”      “I ate WA...

Last night I had occasion to see Netflix's new movie "One of Us".  This movie follows fragments in the lives of a few individu...

    I haven’t been posting here in quite a while. And when I do it generally isn’t about politics. There is a lot involved in the political...

    One thing over the last week has rankled many Israelis over the last week.   While we also showed our support for France after the last...

     I have done a fair amount of hiking in my life, a lot of it in the Rocky Mountains. There, on the trail, it is quite common to give a ...

   Last night a foreign worker was mistaken for a terrorist and was basically lynched .  I remember how in a previous terrorist attack a sep...

   There is a lot of accusations flying around about the video showing the Arab youth bleeding while passer-by curse him.  First, let it be ...

   I saw a post on the NBC news site today. While I am used to a lot of slanted reporting, I must say that NBC outdid themselves. Some sam...

 Yesterday (Wednesday)  a terrorist stabbed a man at the bus stop (in Petach Tikva)next to a mall that I occasionally go to. Also buses in ...