BY CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— In all of our many conversations that took place over the better part of the past decade, I never asked Prof. Benzion Netanyahu what led him to become an historian. Certainly it was a function of his concern for his nation and his recognition that our very existence hung in the…
Torah: Leviticus 25:1 – 26:2, “B’har” (On the mount …) Haftorah: Jeremiah 32:6 – 27 New Testament: II Corinthians 1:18 – 22 Gospel: Luke 4:16 – 21, “Al Natzraat” (To Nazareth …)
Think on this: “Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman: That is detestable.”…”Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for…
BY JEFF JACOBY, COMMENTARY— In December 1862, from his military headquarters in Mississippi, Major General Ulysses S. Grant issued a directive expelling “Jews as a class” from the immense war zone known as the Department of the Tennessee. General Orders No. 11 was the most notorious anti-Jewish edict ever issued by an official of the…
BY CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER, In May 1967, in brazen violation of previous truce agreements, Egypt ordered U.N. peacekeepers out of the Sinai, marched 120,000 troops to the Israeli border, blockaded the Straits of Tiran (Israel’s southern outlet to the world’s oceans), abruptly signed a military pact with Jordan and, together with Syria, pledged war for the…