What’s on the news?  Some of my family have moved to alternate news – people who broadcast on the spot.   One is very right wing and he believes in his sources, another reads all around and seems to know everything but he must spend at leastc 12 hours a day gathering pieces here and there and comes to his own conclusions that are much broader based.  Me, I don’t know what to believe.  Here, for example, I feel the remoteness of some of the Arab student population, but this may be because I don’t have the opportunity to get to know them – I only know the students who work with me on advanced degrees or have become friends.  My major friends in the Arabic department have passed away, so I don’t even know what to make of what I see every week.  My conclusion:  No news means you’re hiding out.

But this Passover there are two centers of news in the country – One is the stone throwing from Al Aksa (in the effort to protect the third holy place from the explorations underneath for our first holy place) You tell me what should be done.  Sometimes my thought is we should get the Iranians to bomb both holy places.

The other news is that for this holiday 100,000 Israelis have taken their vacation to Sinai – the heartland of Isis – and are enjoying themselves immensely….