About Batya

I don't know if I'll have time to blog again before Shabbat, so I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you for inviting me to blog here.  I guess I'm not your usual blogger, certainly not your usual anything. … Read More

Bibi, Running Scared Next week will be the Likud Primaries for top spot, head of party. It looks like Bibi Netanyahu is getting nervous, very nervous. He set high expectations of a "landslide," and the polls are predicting something else … Read More

Yesterday, August 9, was my father's 87th birthday. I've never checked out the Hebrew date for him; though my husband and I celebrate our kids' (and our own) according to the Jewish Calendar. My father's father didn't live long enough … Read More

Here's the map.  I live in Shiloh. It's north of Jerusalm in Samaria. You may be wondering about that wall, which is being built.  It's not near shiloh at all. Yes, I knkow that there are spelling problems in the … Read More

One of the great things about Shabbat is the basic concept, cessation of melachot, 39 specific categories of work;  It's not work in the classic, linguistic sense. They are the creative, in the change ot another form of matter, used … Read More

America has strict laws about discrimination.  No town or building can forbid a person to live there according to his color or religion.  Yes, you agree; don't you? Jews can live in Hebron, Nebraska, or Jericho, New York.  So why … Read More

These are Arab homes in Samaria, right near Shiloh.  No Jew lives in such luxury.

Loehmann's isn't Loehmann's anymore Loehmann's sure isn't. And I'm not referring to the fact that not only is there a dressing room, so one doesn't have to try on between the racks, like it was originally, nor the fact that … Read More

Nu? What did they expect? The Americans are moaning and ranting about the rash epidemic of suicide bombers in Iraq. Why should they be surprised? It's the Arab mentality Did the Iraqis actually invite the United States armed forces into … Read More

The only "tourist" thing I do when in New York is go to museums. On previous visits, besides a traditional evening with a cousin in the Jewish Museum on Fifth Avenue, the museums I see are MOMA, Natural History and … Read More