Clifford Sobin: Bringing the evacuated northern communities alive

Clifford Sobin writes: “Every time I head up that steep, twisting road that always takes far longer to navigate than anticipated, I look to my right two-thirds of the way up. There, a rough track leads through the trees to the first site of [Kibbutz] Hanita. My mind drifts, imagining what it must have felt […]

Northern Israel: Why is this not called a war yet?

On the morning of our Shavuot holiday, I was happily sitting at my crafts table doing some macrame and listening to a lecture by Einat Wilf on Zionism and anti-Zionism (to be written up at some later time). My mood was suddenly disrupted by red alerts flashing across the top of my smartphone screen along […]

What we need to know about Hezbollah (but are afraid to know)

War-time-scrambled-Waze put my location somewhere in Beirut. But that is not what made my drive from Kibbutz Lohamei Hageta’ot back home to Haifa yesterday difficult. After all, I had driven those roads for years and needed no help getting around. What made the trip home hard was because my head was filled with the unpleasantries […]