By CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— As he suffocated to death at the US Consulate in Benghazi on the 11th anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the US, did US Ambassador Christopher Stevens understand why he and his fellow Americans were being murdered? From what we have learned of this man since he was killed, it…
By REUTERS— A platoon of US Marines from with the fleet anti-terrorism security team have been sent to Yemen to bolster security at the embassy and are now on the ground in Sanaa, the Pentagon said on Friday. Elsewhere in the region, protesters against a film denigrating the Prophet Mohammad breached embassy walls in Tunisia…
“Israel matters in American politics like almost no other country on earth. Well beyond the American Jewish and the Protestant fundamentalist communities, the people and the story of Israel stir some of the deepest and most mysterious reaches of the American soul. The idea of Jewish and Israeli exceptionalism is profoundly tied to the idea…
Torah: Deuteronomy 29:10 – 30:20, “Nitsavim” (You are standing …) Haftorah: Isaiah 61:10 – 63:9 New Testament: Romans 10:1 – 13 Gospel: John 3:1 -21 “Hafruseem Nockdemus” (A Pharisee, Nicodemus …)
By RON JAGER— “The emperor has no clothes!” That was the cry of a small child in the Hans Christian Andersen tale as the emperor made his way past, entirely unclothed, while no one had the nerve to speak up. There is much in common between Andersen’s emperor and President Obama; both have no real…
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz extends his best wishes for Rosh Hashanah to the Jewish people in Israel and around the world.
By MARK LANDLER and HELEN COOPER, NY TIMES— President Obama on Tuesday rejected an appeal by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel to spell out a specific “red line” that Iran could not cross in its nuclear program, a senior administration official said, deepening the divide between the allies over how to deal with Iran’s…
By RYAN JONES, ISRAEL TODAY— Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday conveyed Israel’s condolences to the United States over this week’s murders of four consular staff members at the American diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, noting that no nation knows better than Israel what it is like to deal with such brutal acts of…
By YORAM ETTINGER, 1. Rosh Hashanah and the Shofar (ritual ram’s horn) symbolize and commemorate: *The annual reaffirmation of faith in God; *The first human-being, Adam, was created on Rosh Hashanah, the sixth day of Creation, the first day of the Jewish month of Tishrey; *The opening of Noah’s Ark following the flood; *The almost-sacrifice…
By DANIEL GREENFIELD, GATESTONE— “When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature, they will like the strong horse,” Osama Bin Laden famously said. The deceased mass murderer had a point, even if it wasn’t a very original one. Sentimentalists may admire the horse that lets other horses win so they don’t…