From The New Republic Online, a brief looking ahead at what the end of the war in Lebanon is likely to do to Israeli discourse, and the critical role of leadership in the next phase of the Israel domestic "conversation." In some ways, a continuation of some of the issues I raised in "Coming Together, Coming Apart."

An Op Ed written for the New York Times, on Yom Ha-Shoah and on the day that thriteen Israeli soldiers were killed in an ambush in Jenin. This piece was subsequently read into the Congressional Record.

E-mail dispatches written from October 1998-September 2001. These email excerpts appeared in the New York Times Magazine. The final entry was written immediately after the attack on the World Trade Center. A more complete collection of the emails was subsequently published in three books (see Books page):

** If a Place Can Make You Cry
** Home to Stay
** Coming Together, Coming Apart

In the wake of the loss of the second Lebanon War, a look a why a drive through the State of Israel restores perspective and renews a sense of hope for a better future.

How the departure from Gaza is seen one year later, in the midst of the Lebanon War, and what it might mean for Israelis when the fighting stops.