Libi BaMizrach

Just a few weeks ago, I wrote an essay describing what is happening in Israel.  I maintained that the mass protests were not really about "Standing up for Democracy" or protesting the Judicial reform but rather about the anger of the Left that they lost the elections, were out of power, and were likely to stay that way.  Since then, the mobs have been whipped up into ever greater frenzies by their leaders, and the country is now at a frightening level of division and hate, and many fear that a real civil war will soon explode.  The leaders of the Left have no bounds of responsibility for what they are causing in their self-righteous hypocrisy, with former Prime Ministers Lapid, Barak, and Olmert, together with many of their leaders, literally calling for War against the current government, while continuing to spout lies and distortion about their true aims. The truth is, as I argued in that essay – and as anyone examining the proposals of Judicial Reform may plainly se...

משנכנס אדר מרבין בשמחה !  The month of Adar ushers in a time of happiness and joy . . . but it sure does not feel like it this year.  There have been too many tragedies and difficulties have occurred in the Jewish world in the past few weeks.  Three sets of brothers – Paley in Yerushalayim, Yaniv in the Shomron, and Boyer in Phoenix – perished in terrible ways.  Moreover, in Israel, storm clouds continue to gather as we face a dangerous split in society that is threatening to tear apart the country as never before, with their ideological counterparts in the Diaspora joining the fracas with the New Israel Fund is pouring millions of dollars into the well-funded protests. ...   I don't know what Heavenly message was communicated when three sets of brothers perished one after the other, but it seems plain to me that we are being told something about not valuing our brotherhood enough.  At the time of Esther's Purim message — "Gather all the Jews together...