We Gave Them A Home

It began with text messages, all sorts of baffled messages, one chasing the other, about a shootout in Nachmani St. Who could even think it was in our Aguda1. And then came another message. And another one. And suddenly the cold thought piercing through the mind all the way to the heart: Saturday night, Barnoar2, [...]

The writing was plastered all over the wall, signed by Rabbis

Two other posts about the Attack on Gay Israeli youth were recently published on this blog: by Or Bareket and by Maital Rozenboim

A grave thing happened in Israel last night. A terrible thing happened, in Tel-Aviv of all places. It was vile, but not particularly surprising. Tel-Aviv is considered a gay-friendly city, and that is [...]

A Different Kind of Terror

Something happened in Tel-Aviv tonight, a milestone in the delicate relationship between minority and majority, left and right, and whatever other classifications you may wish to use here. Tonight a man, and I use this word in its broader sense, walked into a basement room in Nahmani street in Tel-Aviv, a years-old location for [...]