My Right Word

My uncle, Arthur D. Bachner, “Bucky”, died this week and the funeral is today. He was two days past his 97 th birthday.  Despite his age, i...

Did the idea that "Palestine" for the Arabs was not really thought of as a separate c ountry a 'Zionist plot'? Or...? Pag...

How important was it for Jordan to keep Jews from the Western Wall is perhaps a long question. The short answer is here : Instead of fulfill...

I found a clip  showing some dancing at the wedding of the grandson of the Williamsburg Satmar Rebbe, Zalman , the other one, not Aharon  of...

See my previous post on the book, "The Pilgrimage of Arnold von Harff / Knight / from Cologne, through Italy, Syria, Egypt, Arabia, Et...

I wondered: how more more books have been published since this review article of mine  that appeared in 2008. Well, there's Temple Mount...

From The Pilgrimage of Arnold von Harff / Knight / from Cologne, through Italy, Syria, Egypt, Arabia, Ethiopia, Nubia, Palestine, Turkey, Fr...

When we lived in the Old City, a 90-second walk away was the Chabad Synagogue in which Rav Moshe Segal lived in the first year after the 196...

Yossi published over at TOI this :  To the students who walked out on Palestinian-Israeli dialogue I  c o mmented: To: "You can’t cance...

I attended the opening of a new exhibition at the Israel Museumm this past week: Painting a Pilgrimage: A 14th Century Hebrew Scroll Unveile...

Always pay attention to the use of words and terms as part of the semantic wars. For example: Settler attacks on Palestinian spike, reflecti...

Originally published at the +972 site (and republished by the PLO 's Department of Culture and Information which found it worthy), Shau...

The Maronite expatriates from Lebanon were quite a c tive in the Detroit area of the United States. I re c all hearing about their strong an...

In a recent mailing sent out by  Kares Shapiro and Mark Gold of " Partners for Progressive Israel " on the issue of Sheikh Jarrah,...

I am excerpting from "The Silent Zionist Prayers - Containment Instead of Confrontation" by Ahmed Samir Quneita, published on O c ...

I see that in the new issue , my letter does not appear (not that I expe cted it). An extract from a review of  Tom Segev's biography of...

Jerusalem Post Weekend Magazine, Otober 29, 2021 Jeremy Sharon’s excellent overview of the Temple Mount situation at present should have re...

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Visiting the offices of the Israel Resource Center , I found another set of Mandate of Palestine maps in this 1948 book : which even the NYT...