Got connected

to the innernut .... just in time for Shabbos:)

If it's not Shabbos for you yet, you should rush to the November issue of COMMENTARY recommended by Rick Richman (who reads more than anyone I've ever come across in my life). It features a symposium of 36 (double chai) thinker-writers ruminating on the Bush Doctrine. Print out the 72 pages for relaxed reading over the weekend.

I've only read a few so far, Victor Davis Hanson, Mark Helprin, Norman Podhoretz... but enough to tell that it's a rare feast of contemporary conservative thought. I only wish they would publish such a dense opus of opinion on Israel After the Expulsion. Maybe it's too soon. And then maybe one day, too, they'll add a few female thinker-writers. Always room for improvement.

Todah rabah -Thank you very much - to all those who have stuck with BtB through our difficulties this past week. I hope next week will be more "normal."

Shabbat shalom,
Yael

An Israeli woman lays a flower at the grave of late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin during a memorial at Mount Hertzl cemetery in Jerusalem, Friday, Nov. 4, 2005. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

UPDATE: News from Israel

Thursday afternoon, a soldier was lightly wounded by shrapnel - the result of an Arab-fired mortar shell at an IDF base just north of Gaza. The IDF responded with artillery fire towards the Gaza area from which the shell was fired.

On Wednesday evening, Palestinian terrorists in Gaza fired a Kassam rocket and mortar shell in the direction of the major city of Ashkelon. The shells knocked out power in Netiv HaAsarah and wounded at least one person. Five others were treated for shock following the attack, and a car and home were damaged.

Another mortar shell fell near Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, halfway between northern Gaza and the Ashkelon power station. The power station serves the entire southern part of the country.

In Jerusalem Wednesday evening, an Arab terrorist stabbed a young woman in Gan HaPa’amon (Liberty Bell Park) in the capital. The victim suffered light-to-moderate wounds. Police arrested a suspect near the Old City's Jaffa Gate who was caught with a knife and fresh bloodstains on his clothing.

In another incident on Wednesday, army sappers neutralized a 25-kilogram (55-pound) bomb near the Karni crossing in northern Gaza. The crossing was opened for three days in honor of the Id El-Fitr holiday, to allow Israeli-Arabs to visit first-degree relatives in Gaza.

Comments

[RR]

You are right about the missing women in COMMENTARY. Where were Ruth Wisse, Midge Decter, Gertrude Himmelfarb, and Mona Charen? Maybe next year they'll consider Kathryn Jean Lopez, Heather MacDonald, Diana West, and Anne Lieberman. It would be a better selection, since there's alot of repetition in the existing crew.