Why We are Bullish about Yavniel?
Many people like to be where the ‘action’ is. The museums, restaurants, bistros, nightlife, etc, of the cosmopolitan city of Tel Aviv come with unbelievably high real estate prices. Sale and rental prices for apartments are sky high for very small units. Jerusalem, the capital city of the Jewish People, has seen its prices rise […]
This Land is My Land, This Land is Your Land
In Chapter 23 in Genesis (Bereishit), G-d promises Abraham, ““The entire land that you see, I will give to you and your descendants forever . . . Arise and traverse the land, in its length and in its breadth, for to you I shall give it” (Genesis 13: 15-17). Sixty years later, in chapter 23 of Genesis, we learn […]
Rosh Hashana 5781 A Light Unto The Nations
When historians will look back at this past year, they will judge it as a very significant one. The great Empire of our times, the United States of America, is teetering, with its future existence being questioned for the very first time. Western Europe, day by day is becoming less Christian dominated, as the […]
Israeli Real Estate: The Can’t Miss Investment
I visited Israel in the summer of 1993 and I was flush with some available investment capital. While staying in the home of my late wife’s aunt in the Jerusalem suburb of Neve Yakov, I inquired how much their modest attached house with a tiny yard (garden) was selling for? I thought it was very […]
Why Jewish Labor Must Be Supported
Yesterday, a bunch of us went out to an agricultural field in Rosh Pina which is located in Israel’s Upper Galilee. We brought shovels and the necessary tools to dig holes. After a few hours of sweaty labor we had dug 130 holes and filled them with 130 Olive trees. Our group consisted of teachers, […]