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Mourning Under Glass: Reflections on a Son’s Murder
Mourning Under Glass: Reflections on a Son’s Murder By Naftali Moses 2011 198 pages Reviewed by Yitzchok Adlerstein You will not enjoy reading Mourning Under Glass. And that is exactly why you should...
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God, Israel, & Shiloh: Returning to the Land
God, Israel, & Shiloh: Returning to the Land By David Rubin Mazo Publishers Jerusalem, 2007 185 pages In the winter of 2001, David Rubin and his three-year-old son Reuven (“Ruby”) were driving on...
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Feeling the Hand of God
On March 21, 2002, a suicide bombing on Rechov King George in Jerusalem killed three people and injured eighty-seven. Though our apartment’s proximity to downtown Jerusalem is such that I recall...
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On and Off the Beaten Track in … Gush Etzion
There is no area in Israel that more symbolizes the flow of Jewish history than the Gush Etzion region, situated just fifteen minutes south of Jerusalem. And as Israel prepares to celebrate its...
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My Sister, My Home, My Life: The Story of Ruthi Cohen
“We gratefully thank You… for Your miracles that accompany us daily.” (Shemoneh Esrei, Siddur) The first of the Ten Commandments, “I am your God,” is more of a statement than a command. With it, God...
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On and Off the Beaten Track in…the Har’el Lookout
During Israel’s War of Independence, the construction of the Burma Road, a bypass to Jerusalem through the mountains, was an extraordinary feat that allowed Jewish soldiers to avoid the dangers of the...
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Yona Baumel, Man of Faith
This past Shavuot, Yona Baumel, eighty-one, returned his soul to his Creator, without his son Zecharya having been returned to him. Zecharya and five other soldiers were missing after the chaotic...
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The Yom Kippur War : An American Volunteer Remembers
By Irwin H. Krasna It was Yom Kippur, October 6th, 1973, when we first heard the news: Egypt and Syria had attacked Israel, unprovoked and without warning. Before we even broke our fast, we tuned in...
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