Arab-Israeli Conflict

I still remember arriving the first day. I'd just received my uniform and put it on. After collecting my equipment, I received my M-16; I turned to the commander leading me through all of this and asked, "What do I do with this?"

The Arab birth rate continues to outstrip the Jewish rate--and the government continues to discourage large families. How are we ever going to ensure that this place remains the Jewish homeland?

Bibi's address has left a lot of people unhappy. Did Bibi blink by accepting a (sort of) Palestinian State? But I think that the question posed to me this past week is perhaps the most germane of all...

The murder of others, even if they are the oppressors, seemingly amounts to a glorification of war... Prayer, I am told, is an act of enlightenment. Am I to pray for the brutal demise of the enemy?

As the only Jew in my office, I face a daily barrage of questions about Israel's actions in Gaza. What do I say?

In vain, you attempt to squelch the dooming thoughts ablaze in your mind...the horrors of what could happen...what might be the terrifying end result.

As the settlers kept pressing forward, a policeman would sometimes lose control of himself and start hitting someone particularly hard and begin yelling at him. Person after person was either arrested or beaten...

Question: I am writing to your organization to express my thoughts and feelings about the recent attacks that took place in Mumbai. I am not a Jewish person, I have never even been to a synagogue. I feel it is terrible that this rabbi and his wife were mu...

Despite the fact that every single move a settler makes is recorded and watched, they feel unheard. Even though they live in the Holy Land, they feel hated by their own people... They feel alone...

Despite the distance of a few feet between us, we are worlds apart. A few meters away, ominous even at rest, sits a parked bulldozer. It casts an enormous shadow over the playground. I look at the mother, the bulldozer. The mother. The bulldozer...