By Abe Selig, Jerusalem Post While tensions continue to simmer around the Temple Mount after riots in and around the capital’s Old City earlier this month, a new campaign calling for the construction of the Third Temple atop the holy site has made its way to the sides of 200 Egged buses in the city,…
By Jonathan Tobin, Jewishworldreview.com Some 19 years ago, the first president Bush earned the enmity of American Jews with his rant about being “one lone guy” standing up against the horde of AIPAC activists exercising their constitutional right to petition Congress. Bush’s statement symbolized the intolerance and enmity that his administration felt toward Israel and…
By Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought” 1. “Next year in the reconstructed Jerusalem” concludes the annual reciting of the Passover Saga. How pertinent in March 2010?! 2. How central is Passover in Judaism and in the context of Judeo-Christian values? “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out…
By Dennis Prager Many Americans find it difficult to understand why Jews on the Left — including many who would call themselves “liberal” rather than “Left” — continued to enthusiastically support President Obama after the revelations about the anti-Israel and anti-Jewish views of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the religious mentor and close friend of Obama.…
by Victor Sharpe It has thus come to this. Jerusalem may well be on the way to being re-divided. History will not look kindly upon those in this generation who have fallen into the trap of media distortion, Arab untruths, peace at any price and sheer apathy. The Jewish Talmud and Midrash tell us from…
By Bill Mehlman and Kim Johnson “O Israel hope in the Lord For with the Lord there is mercy And with Him is plenteous redemption And He will redeem Israel…” Thus ends Psalm 130, a cry from the depths of a soul whose yearning for the sight of God is as that of the “watchman…
327 Representatives were signatories to the letter. 102 were non-signers: 94 were Democrats and 8 were Republican. Dear Secretary Clinton: We are writing to reaffirm our commitment to the unbreakable bond that exists between our country and the State of Israel and to express to you our deep concern over recent tension. In every important…