My mother was a widow for twelve years. I saw in my own family the sorrow a widow feels when she loses her spouse. I witnessed the loneliness and the ongoing pain as every holiday rolls around. Even though my mother wasn’t destitute, she was emotionally wounded for the rest of her life because she
Continue Reading »In the rugged, mountainous region spreading over parts of northern Iraq, southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran and northernSyria lies Kurdistan, the home of an ancient Iranic people group. Dwelling among them in isolated communities were Jews who had lived there since the Assyrians brought them from the northern kingdom of Israel in the eighth century BC.
Continue Reading »The world has witnessed a different kind of tsunami in the 11 months since Hamas attacked the people of Israel on October 7. This is not a tsunami of ocean waves caused by an earthquake, but a tsunami of hatred—hatred of a nation, Israel and of a people group, the Jews. Logically, we should
Continue Reading »When Hitler implemented the “Final Solution of the Jewish Question,” the Nazis coined a term to describe regions after the entire Jewish population had been deported to extermination camps. They proudly called these locations Judenrein, or “cleansed of Jews.” On September 18, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) took a page from the Nazi
Continue Reading »Just over one year ago, Israel was plunged into the dark night of war. On October 7, 2023, Hamas launched a horrific terror attack, sparking a war that continues to wage on. Nearly one year later, on October 1, 2024, I was in an airplane flying to Israel when Iran fired nearly 200 ballistic
Continue Reading »As rocket sirens screamed across Israel on October 7, 2023, the urgent wail of ambulance sirens joined the cacophony in the south. Dozens of emergency vehicles belonging to Magen David Adom (MDA), Israel’s national ambulance and emergency medical services, responded to the flood of calls from civilians facing Hamas terrorists. International law prohibits targeting
Continue Reading »Kubbeh is a hearty meat-filled semolina dumpling which originated among Jewish communities in the Levant and then brought to Israel by Iraqi Jews coming home after millennia in dispersion. Kubbeh can be eaten on its own as a savory snack or light meal, but in winter, these nuggets are usually simmered in bright red
Continue Reading »Volunteers in Israel have saved agricultural produce valued at US $50 million since the start of the war against Hamas in Gaza, even amid major damage to the country’s agricultural sector. Hundreds of thousands of volunteers from Israel and around the world have helped rescue over 35,000 tons of produce, according to Leket Israel, the
Continue Reading »Tom and I lived in Israel for 33 years. We lived through wars, terror attacks, suicide bombings and terror arson. We ran to bomb shelters with our Israeli neighbors and donned gas masks during the Saddam Hussein era. At one period, suicide bombings in Jerusalem were a common occurrence. Many international workers left in times
Continue Reading »In 2023, the core Jewish population—or the number of people identifying as Jews above all else—was approximately 15.7 million worldwide. That’s a pretty tiny number when you consider there are about 8.2 billion people alive today. Since October 7, 2023, that miniscule Jewish population has garnered a disproportionate share of the world’s hatred. It would
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