Haifa Diary

We spent this weekend celebrating the bar mitzvah ( http://www.jewfaq.org/barmitz.htm ) of twins of friends of ours at a village some 20 mil...

A couple of days ago I received an e-mail from a contact in South Africa who thought "we now had a period of calm"!! Really?? From...

The fast of Tisha B'av has just been completed. This fast commemorates many tragedies that have occurred in Jewish history and specifica...

We are now in the middle of the long summer holiday for all the school children. This is the time when grandparents are dragged (well someti...

Two reports below show two faces of the complex problem of education in the Palestinian curricula. I wonder which one will succeed? No prize...

The last few days have been interesting, not necessarily because of what we’ve done, more with the people we have come in contact with. With...

Khaled Abu Toameh, Palestinian, has produced several documentaries on the Palestinians for the BBC and other international networks. The hea...