I don't know how old I was or whether I opened a suspiciously long package tied up in gift wrap one Saturday morning. I don't know if the rod and reel inside that wrap was new or used, if it was old and had been polished by my dad or whether he bought it one night while he moonlighted selling lawnmowers at the Montgomery Ward just up the road from our house. (More)

The terrorist leaders of Hamas in Gaza have reigned 4,000 Kassam rockets in northern Israel since 2005. Image Houston or Seattle being peppered with rockets for three years from across our borders. Charles Krauthammer (Washington Post) wrote, "Look at Gaza today. No Israeli occupation, no settlements, not a single Jew left. The Palestinian response? Unremitting rocket-fire killing and maiming Israeli citizens … the reason for the killing of Israeli citizens is the very existence of Israel. Israel's 'crime' is her insistence in living." What does 15 seconds mean to you? In northern Israel it means after the alarm, a rocket will land near you in 15 seconds. The Hamas Charter states its purpose is the destruction of Israel. Hamas runs four "Paradise Camps" for children, teaching them the ""joy of becoming a suicide-murderer. Palestinian children's textbooks have no maps of Israel and contain anti-Jewish and anti-Christian caricatures," cartoons, and myths. (More)

They say that "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it," and here in South Carolina, we are poor history students. (More)

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For more than 800 years, a prime event has been uniquely celebrated in Jewish homes throughout the world. This is the Passover Seder, remembering the children of Israel’s freedom from slavery in Egypt. (More)