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The Real Jimmy Carter

By Alan M. Dershowitz FrontPageMagazine.com April 27, 2007 I have known Jimmy Carter for years. I first met him in the spring of 1976 when, as a relatively unknown candidate for president, he sent me a handwritten letter asking for my help in his campaign on issues of...

Your Next Trip

As I read my postings from Israel, I note that most of them have some reference to the wars fought to defend this country and the terrorist attacks that they have endured. I feel I am contributing to the distorted image that Israel is not a safe place to visit.People...

The Taste of Security

From the abandoned old Syrian concrete outpost you can look down to the right and see a field that the Israelis once plowed with armed tractors or military escort. On the horizon to the left is the kibbutz Gadot. Before the 1967 war every home in the kibbutz had been...

Taking Ancient Wisdom Literally

A bus driver in Jerusalem on Yaffa Street notices smoke coming out of a car behind him in his rear view mirror. He stops the bus tries to pull the driver out of the burning car. The driver resists. The bus driver believes he is in shock and struggles to pull him out...

Open for Business

By Henry OlinerGenine was born in Queens, New York. Her parents were holocaust refugees. Hearing of their stories growing up, she saw Israel as the miracle it was; a fulfilled 2000 year old dream in the wake of the Jewish people’s greatest disaster, successfully...