Israel is our home no matter where we were born. To others images of Israel are only what they see. To us they are visions of a dream of our ancestors.

Jews from Morocco built Sderot.  They came here in the early years of Israel’s statehood.  So it’s no surprise that Moroccan culture is part of living in Sderot. The Karaoke Guy, for example, sings Mizrahi songs with the familiar high pitched nasal quality of North African tastes. In this neighborhood, even when the Karaoke Guy [...]

Speakers at the rally roused up the crowd with rhetoric not about President Obama’s policies but about President Obama himself. More on that later, but for now — well, those speakers were wrong… I mean plain WRONG! for more than one reason.