By Victor Sharpe— The Jewish prophet Jeremiah said those words millennia ago and it is telling when applied to peace between Israel and the Arab aggressors, yet still the hope for a true and lasting peace is resurrected again and again. But is it a case of “blessed are the peacemakers” or just another attempt…
By Adam Dershowitz, Gatestone Institute—- Imagine if the New York Times cartoon that depicted Israel’s Prime Minister as a dog had, instead, depicted the leader of another ethnic or gender group in a similar manner? If you think that is hard to imagine, you are absolutely right. It would be inconceivable for a Times editor…
BY Omri Nahmias, JPost— President Trump addressed Sunday the continuing rocket attacks by Hamas and Islamic Jihad against Israel, and tweeted words of support for the Jewish state. “Once again, Israel faces a barrage of deadly rocket attacks by terrorist groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad,” the president tweeted. “We support Israel 100% in its defense…
By Yochanan Visser, Israel Today— Israel came to a standstill on Thursday morning 10 AM in commemoration of the Holocaust during World War II. The annual memorial of six million Jews who were brutally murdered by the Nazis came after a shocking anti-Semitic event involving the world’s largest newspaper The New York Times. The paper…
By Lela Gilbert, Jerusalem Post— One summer day in 2016, I was having lunch with a French friend in Jerusalem. Because of my interest in religious freedom, she was telling me about persistent disturbances in France’s Catholic Churches – vandalism, arson and obscene desecration of sanctuaries. That evening, to further explain, she sent me links…
By Judy Siegel-Itzkovich, Breaking Israel News— Almost 75 years after Hitler’s downfall, antisemitism in various parts of the world – from the US and Western Europe to South America and the Muslim world – is flourishing. On Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day (Holocaust Memorial Day), Tel Aviv University’s Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary…
By Clarion Project—- The New York Times came to the defense of the Muslim Brotherhood in the wake of the news that the Trump Administration was planning to designate the group as a terrorist organization. In a breathtakingly disingenuous article, the Times omits fact after fact in its claim the Brotherhood is a “missionary” group…
By Ari Feldman, The Forward—- Saturday was the last day of Passover — one of the four times during the yearly cycle of holidays that Jews recite Yizkor, the prayer for the dead and for martyrs. There were several dozen people in attendance for the service at the Chabad of Poway, the only Orthodox synagogue…
By AP and DEBRA KAMIN, Times of Israel— San Diego police said Sunday that the gunman who opened fire on a crowded synagogue on Passover, killing one person and wounding three others, was apparently acting alone and not part of an organized group. The suspect, 19-year-old John Earnest, has been booked into custody on one…
By Inna Rogatchi— After a wonderful week of the Passover celebration, the Jewish world in Israel and the world did awake to two grim news: racist shooting in San-Diego and Nazi cartoon in The New York Times. We are back to our realities. Heroic 60-year old woman who thrown herself to protect the rabbi during…