As Donald Trump’s administration began to take shape, most of its initial appointments and pronouncements portended disaster for the likelihood of Israel forging peace with the
Recently I attended a program of Manhattan’s Temple Emanu-El Skirball Center on Golda Meir, a presentation that concluded a four-part series led by Meir biographer Elinor Burkett.
Almost a year ago, I was in Israel with strangers who quickly became friends, as Israel trips always go. We were sitting in our hotel
On the evening of Nov. 14, I attended a screening of the new documentary film, “Disturbing the Peace,” and a post-screening panel discussion. It relates the story of
A little over a week ago I stood in Rabin Square with tens of thousands of Israelis, remembering Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin z’l, gathering with
New York University’s Taub Center for Israel Studies sponsored a talk by Tzipi Livni on September 21. A former minister of both justice and foreign affairs
Yesterday I woke up at 5:30 a.m. and drove an hour to a crossing between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. I called a Palestinian man
The death of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Shimon Peres at 93, on September 27, marked the passing of Israel’s founding generation of leaders. He is
Living in Manhattan, then and now, my experience of the attack that day (although never directly threatened) remains a profound memory, which I wrote about here, last
“Israeli Salad” is how these women refer to themselves – women from the Periphery [from the outlying areas, the northern and southern parts of the
