הנביא מתאבל על כך שאין לירושלים אנשים שמתעניינים בה ושואלים לשלומה. זה נכון באופן כללי לגבי מדינת ישראל וירושלים היום. בעולם היום יש הרבה עניין ב"פלשתינאים" ובמאבק שלהם לשים קץ למדינה היהודית כך או אחרת. טענות... READ MORE →
The prophet bemoans that Jerusalem lacks people who are interested and inquire after her welfare. In a general sense that is the case regarding the State of Israel and Jerusalem today. There is a lot of interest in the world today regarding the Palestinians and their cause, of ending the existence of the Jewish state, one way or another. The presentation of the historic and justified... READ MORE →
In matters of faith and religion there always is a struggle between the actualities of life that we physically see and experience and the beliefs that are mostly unable to be seen and proven empirically. To further complicate this matter, one generation’s miracle often turns out to be a different generation’s science. See Mark Twain’s devastating satire of a book “A Connecticut Yankee in... READ MORE →
This summer, as usual, Destiny Foundation conducted its annual weekend retreat at Kibbutz Lavi in the Lower Galilee section of Israel. Being the city dweller that I currently am, I must admit that I rarely leave Jerusalem and thus do not get to see and appreciate the natural beauty and wonders of our wondrous country. But the journey to and from Jerusalem-Lavi-Jerusalem (and by different routes)... READ MORE →
הקיץ ערכה קרן דסטני, כהרגלה, את מפגש סוף השבוע השנתי שלה בקיבוץ לביא שבגליל התחתון. כעירוני, מה שהנני כעת, אני מוכרח להודות שרק לעתים נדירות אני יוצא את ירושלים, ולכן לא יוצא לי להעריך את היופי הטבעי ואת נפלאות ארצנו... READ MORE →
המהפכה האחרונה במצרים, שסילקה את האחים המוסלמים מהשלטון (זמנית?) משקפת את חוסר היציבות המתמשך ואת הסערות שמאפיינות את העולם הערבי. המערב וארצות הברית הופתעו ונדהמו, כרגיל, מאירוע ולא היו מסוגלים להשפיע על... READ MORE →
The recent revolution in Egypt that removed the Moslem Brotherhood from power (is it only temporarily?) reflects the ongoing instability and cross- currents that dominate the Arab world. As usual, the Western world and the United States were surprised and overwhelmed by the event and completely impotent in attempting to influence this outcome. The mindset of the West, proven over and over... READ MORE →
One of my most beloved grandchildren (all of my grandchildren are most beloved but…) wrote to me last week and in the letter made a wonderful comparison between the frustrations of being a loyal baseball fan – almost a rabid supporter – of a bad and losing baseball team and reading and listening to the news reported from Israel about the quarrels, divisions and scandals that currently... READ MORE →
It is a well-known and almost instinctive response to attack the messenger when one feels that the message being delivered is incorrect, unwanted or unfair. The poor messenger usually finds one’s self in a hapless and hopeless predicament. It then becomes a contest of personalities and not of ideas, a shouting match instead of a reasoned debate. A seasoned American political leader once... READ MORE →
History has recorded for us great powers, ideas, faiths and societies that though apparently successful for periods of time, even long centuries, have turned eventually into monumental failures. The twentieth century was witness to the immense failure of fascism and of communism as examples of promised social panaceas that eventually collapsed due to false ideals and dogmatic ineptitude. ... READ MORE →
