Yom Hazikaron
It was Yom Kippur, October 6th, 1973, when we first heard the news: Egypt and Syria had attacked Israel, unprovoked…
This past Shavuot, Yona Baumel, eighty-one, returned his soul to his Creator, without his son Zecharya having been returned to…
During Israel’s War of Independence, the construction of the Burma Road, a bypass to Jerusalem through the mountains, was an…
“We gratefully thank You… for Your miracles that accompany us daily.” (Shemoneh Esrei, Siddur) The first of the Ten Commandments,…
Yom Hazikaron (Israel’s Memorial Day) and Yom Ha’atzmaut (Israel’s Independence Day), two consecutive days in May, dramatize both the pain…
On March 21, 2002, a suicide bombing on Rechov King George in Jerusalem killed three people and injured eighty-seven. Though…
In the winter of 2001, David Rubin and his three-year-old son Reuven (“Ruby”) were driving on Patriarch’s Road from Jerusalem…
You will not enjoy reading Mourning Under Glass. And that is exactly why you should read it. It is not…
