Alwayswriteagain: Hate the Hatred: A Survivor’s Guide to Beating Ter...

Alwayswriteagain: Hate the Hatred: A Survivor’s Guide to Beating Ter...: “ Out of millions of people in this world I find myself in ...

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Falling Through the Sky

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Falling Through the Sky: The tradition from which I come insists that nothing is haphazard; that there’s no such thing as ‘co-incidence’. So there must be a good re...

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Israel’s Constant Lover

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Israel’s Constant Lover: One of the most touching displays of loving support for Israel during the current hostilities has surely come from feisty U.K. journalist, J...

Alwayswriteagain: Are There Terror Tunnels On Israel’s Northern Bord...

Alwayswriteagain: Are There Terror Tunnels On Israel’s Northern Bord...: When Karmiel Mayor Adi Eldar addressed a pro-IDF solidarity rally at the entrance to the city on Wednesday, he hinted that there may be ter...

Alwayswriteagain: Hamas and the Tunnels of the Terrorist Mind

Alwayswriteagain: Hamas and the Tunnels of the Terrorist Mind: “ Like a tunnel that you follow to a tunnel of its own … Like the circles that you find in the windmills of your mind  …” Global antisem...

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Choose Life, Choose In Life

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Choose Life, Choose In Life: As Israel’s latest war with its neighbours in Gaza becomes markedly worse I’m bound to say that terrible situations invariably produce the b...

Alwayswriteagain: Everyone’s a ‘Martyr’ in ‘Palestine’

Alwayswriteagain: Everyone’s a ‘Martyr’ in ‘Palestine’: Although even some of the world’s best–known Jewish talking heads would have us believe otherwise, many ordinary Arabs are becoming increas...

PerfectlyWriteFamilyTales: ‘Gaza Beach, July 2014’

PerfectlyWriteFamilyTales: ‘Gaza Beach, July 2014’: The sea’s not calm today. Rough waters have sent the surfers home, leaving the coast clear for marauding zealots who craft their murder  r...

Alwayswriteagain: Not Jewish At Heart?

Alwayswriteagain: Not Jewish At Heart?: Dozens of tributes have been paid these past few days to the late South African Nobel literary laureate, Nadine Gordimer . But while all hav...

PerfectlyWritePoetry: ‘Grandfather Afrika’

PerfectlyWritePoetry: ‘Grandfather Afrika’: The passing this week of Nadine Gordimer ,  South Africa’s Nobel literary laureate,  reminds us that she confined herself largely to writing...

PerfectlyWritePoetry: The Poetry of Pistols

PerfectlyWritePoetry: The Poetry of Pistols: I’d been living in Israel for barely weeks when I spotted a young soldier chuck his machine gun on a car rear-seat like it was a bag of laun...

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Spreading the Love

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Spreading the Love: I anticipate  a lot of criticism for daring to invoke the shade of the late and inordinately great Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook in reference to...

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Clasping Mystery in Your Palm!

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Clasping Mystery in Your Palm!: As Twitter becomes an increasingly important platform for micro-mini creative writing, it’s  no surprise that publishers are  willing – no, ...

Alwayswriteagain: Why All Decent People Condemn This Murder

Alwayswriteagain: Why All Decent People Condemn This Murder: Below, as a matter of extreme urgency, I reproduce as invited, an open letter condemning the murder of 16-year-old Arab, Mohammed Abu Khdeir...

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Where Ireland and Israel May Meet

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Where Ireland and Israel May Meet: The day the Irish literary world plunged into deep mourning on the passing of a favourite son, Israel cheered an honorary degree from Trinit...

PerfectlyWritePoetry: They Were Here But Yesterday

PerfectlyWritePoetry: They Were Here But Yesterday: Three sets of parents are in mourning following the abduction and murder of Israeli Jewish students, Naftali Fraenkel , Gilad Shaar and Eya...