I'm in Jerusalem for what God willing will be my last time as a "visitor." I've spent the vast majority of my time here in meetings for Rabbis for Human Rights, having carved out one day to look at apartments and do other aliyah related stuff. Everyone here talks about how expensive Jerusalem is,...
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Would the world be better off without religion? I have secular friends who look at what’s going on in the world around us – Shiite Muslims and Sunni Muslims killing each other in Iraq, Jews and Muslims killing each other in Israel and the Palestinian Territories, riots breaking out and people losing their lives...
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The most recent news out of Israel is very encouraging. On Sunday a cease-fire went into effect between Israel and all of the major Palestinian terror organizations; the cease-fire has even has the support of exiled Hamas leader Khaled Meshal, which is crucial in making it stick. Meshal first said he would give the...
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(photo of Reb Barry in front of a Gaza settler's home, July 2005) I had an op-ed piece published in the Toledo Blade last Saturday regarding Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon and Gaza; the intro follows, or you can click here to go straight to the piece in the Blade. On a completely unrelated topic,...
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I VERY rarely "cross-post" something, which is to say simply post to my blog or send to my email list something I pick up from somewhere else. I figure everyone gets enough email traffic themselves. I'm making an exception for the following, which was forwarded to me by Rabbi Mauricio Balter, who is the...
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On June 25 Hamas terrorists killed 2 IDF soldiers and captured a third, Gilad Shalit. On June 28 the IDF went into Gaza looking for him, and they have been there ever since, not just hunting for Shalit, but also working to destroy the terrorist infrastructure in Gaza. Besides freeing Shalit, Israel needs to...
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