Dance With the Moon by Jerry Waxman What makes you dance? Does music make you dance? When you hear your favorite song on the radio, do you automatically stand up and dance? Sometimes – many times in his life – a man just feels like dancing. And he uses the music in the supermarket or [...]

Leaves of Hope by Jerry Waxman Sometimes it seems Sderot has no life. I was walking around the other day, just observing things. I saw three dogs playing on a lawn and went closer to watch. Why? Seeing dogs play is a rare thing, believe it or not. Most dogs in Sderot wander around kind [...]

Of Fears, Scams and a Song by Jerry Waxman Sderot is known mostly for the kassams, the rocket attacks on a civilian population by Arab extremists in Gaza over the past 9 years. I have a thing about over-exploitation of victimhood. It doesn’t sit well with me that every visitor to Sderot is treated to [...]

Hide and Seek and the Ice Cube Air-Con by Jerry Waxman A few clouds graced the blue desert sky today. Most have left, but a few have stayed to lend the night an essence of aesthetic peacefulness. The moon is still new – only a sliver now – and a reminder that our Islamic neighbors [...]

even here in Sderot, we’ve heard about the “Beer Summit” while the visit of President Arroyo got no press at all. Your “beer summit” came about after a misunderstanding. As you said, your words about the incident were not calibrated well,

Every night the neighborhood is serenaded by “the karaoke guy.” He practices his favorite Mizrahi tunes for hours on end.

The little guy who peers at me from under the chair is not long for this world.  I have studied these matters, and in years past, I’ve invented an arsenal for taking care of these critters. This arsenal has never been used – just invented in case it is needed. The first weapon is a [...]

It’s a quiet night in Sderot. It’s been quiet for some time now. It’s easy to forget that there have been times intermittently that kassams came raining down on this city every day.  But for several weeks, it’s been quiet.  And I, for one do not miss the rockets. Here it is 2 AM, and [...]

The civilian population of Sderot deals constantly with the attack of the Kassam rockets send into their homes by militant Islam from Gaza. The really horrific part of this is the Militants of Hizzbollah revel in their evil deeds. They know no humanity only evil deeds. Duration : 0:7:16 addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sderotisrael.com%2F15%2Fsderot-israel%2F’; addthis_title = ‘Sderot%2C+Israel’; [...]

by Jerry Waxman In response to the article in: The New Republic, April 15, 2009 edition Washington Diarist: At The Window by Leon Wieseltier Here are a few excerpts from Wieseltier’s article: “Of three or four in a room there is always one who stands at the window. He must see the injustice among the [...]