By RON JAGER, DAILY BEAST— Kathleen Peratis’s recent visit to Judea and Samaria, that is those communities located in what she calls the West Bank, has only reinforced the perception that Jewish leaders representing the Liberal left wing of American Jewry visiting Israel will always don their one-dimensional sunglasses upon landing at Ben-Gurion airport. No…
DetailsIngredients 1 cup walnuts, toasted and cooled 12 ounces jarred roasted red peppers, drained and rinsed ⅛ teaspoon cayenne pepper ¼ cup dry bread crumbs 3 tablespoons lemon juice 1 tablespoon molasses 1 teaspoon honey ½ teaspoon ground cumin ¾ teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons olive oil Directions 1) Place all the ingredients in a food…
DetailsIngredients 1 cup walnuts, toasted and cooled 12 ounces jarred roasted red peppers, drained and rinsed ⅛ teaspoon cayenne pepper ¼ cup dry bread crumbs 3 tablespoons lemon juice 1 tablespoon molasses 1 teaspoon honey ½ teaspoon ground cumin ¾ teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons olive oil Directions 1) Place all the ingredients in a food…
DetailsBy DEBKAFILE— Tehran was forced to eat crow and backtrack on its ploy for winning international recognition for its nuclear program by showing Non-Aligned Summit leaders and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon around its nuclear sites. The tour was planned for Wednesday, Aug. 29. It would have been a mockery of US-promoted nuclear diplomacy, International…
DetailsBy TZVI BEN GEDALYAHU, ARUTZ 7— Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas frequently refers to the “alleged” Jewish Temple, but if it was not Jewish, there is no basis for Christian belief, as written in the New Testament in Matthew (21:12), that Jewish “moneychangers” chased Jesus from the Holy Temple. However, Christians so far have not…
DetailsBy YAOV ZITUN, YNET— The Home Front Command on Tuesday launched a first-of-its-kind exercise simulating evacuation and rescue operations from three different rocket landing sites. As part of the wide-scale exercise, hundreds of soldiers from the Home Front Command’s search and rescue Kedem Battalion simulated evacuation of casualties and removal of debris from several locations…
DetailsThese words of comfort are taken from Isaiah and are especially appropriate during the Three Weeks of Mourning for the Temple in Jerusalem. With her heartfelt voice, Neshama Carlebach sings in Hebrew these words taken from the Bible. The photos were taken in Israel of recent tragedies and remind us how greatly we need God’s…
DetailsBy KENNETH LEVIN, FRONTPAGEMAG— In a 1977 Supreme Court opinion, Thurgood Marshall, the court’s first African-American justice, observed, “Social scientists agree that members of minority groups frequently respond to discrimination and prejudice by attempting to disassociate themselves from the group, even to the point of adopting the majority’s negative attitudes towards the minority.” Marshall further…
DetailsBy SHOSHANA BRYEN, AMERICAN THINKER— The government of South Africa has defined the State of Israel as not including Beersheva, Yad Mordechai, Acco, Afula, and Nahariya. It creates an “Arab Enclave” in Jaffa not governed by Israel. It reduces the borders of Israel in two places to points on a map — one in the…
DetailsTorah: Deuteronomy 21:10 – 25:19 “Ki Tetse” (When you go out …) Haftorah: Isaiah 54:1 – 10 New Testament: I Corinthians 5:1 – 5 Gospel: Matthew 9:18 – 26 “Bichnaf bigdoe: (the hem of his garment …)
DetailsBy DAVID RUBINSTEIN, JPOST— Jewish support for the enemies of Israel represents the triumph of leftism over Jewishness. — Among its many critics, there is a startling number of Jews who calumniate Israel and, in some cases, champion those threatening its existence. Noam Chomsky heads this list, but he is hardly alone. Norman Finkelstein, Ilan…
DetailsO Yahweh my God, You have helped me to see, that whatever good be in honor and rejoicing, how good is He who gives them, and can withdraw them; that blessedness does not lie so much in receiving good from and in you, but in holding forth your glory and virtue: that it is an…
Details“Civilization hangs suspended, from generation to generation, by the gossamer strand of memory. If only one cohort of mothers and fathers fails to convey to its children what it has learned from its parents, then the great chain of learning and wisdom snaps. If the guardians of human knowledge stumble only one time, in their…
DetailsBy CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— This week a German doctor in Bavaria filed a criminal complaint against Rabbi David Goldberg. Rabbi Goldberg’s “crime”? He performs ritual circumcisions on Jewish male infants in accordance with Jewish law. The doctor’s complaint came shortly after a ruling by a court in Cologne outlawing the practice of male circumcision. The…
DetailsFrom the Jewish Star 2012 winner Dovid Moskovits comes his latest release, Sa’eni Nah. Written by Zvika Bornstein with music by Rolf Lovland, this is the first time that the song “You Raise Me Up” has been covered in Hebrew and the touching lyrics transcend language and culture, speaking words of solace and comfort that…
DetailsBy CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER, WASHINGTON POST — Either Israel is engaged in the most elaborate ruse since the Trojan horse or it is on the cusp of a preemptive strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities. What’s alarming is not just Iran’s increasing store of enriched uranium or the growing sophistication of its rocketry. It’s also the increasingly…
DetailsThink on this: “‘Comfort , yes, comfort my people!’ says your God. Speak to the heart of Jerusalem, and cry out to her, that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned; that she has received from Yahweh’s hand double of all her sins.”… “Praise be to the God and Father of our LORD…
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