BY DEBKAFILE— The sudden death of Kim Jong II, of a heart attack aged 69, Monday, Dec. 19 – even though his youngest son Kim Jong-un was hailed as successor – confronts the world for the first time since the Cold War with a leaderless nuclear power about which it knows almost nothing. Though anointed…
BY YAAKOV LAPIN, JPOST The inmates, most of whom had already served most of their sentences, were transferred in convoys of Prisons Service buses, guarded by police escorts. The 544 men were gathered at Ayalon Prison in Ramle, and were joined by the six women from Sharon Prison. They were taken to four release points.…
BY ERIC BARGER, TAKE A STAND— Chrislam, which purports to join Islam and Christianity into one harmonious, synthesized religion, is fast becoming a rallying point in some American church circles. Under the leadership of something called “Faith Shared,” two organizations, Interfaith Alliance and Human Rights First, spearheaded an event loosely called “Chrislam Sunday” on June…
BY NIV ELIS, JPOST— US President Barack Obama courted Jewish voters and defended his record on Israel in a fiery keynote address to the Union for Reform Judaism outside Washington, DC on Friday. “No US administration has done more in support of Israel’s security than ours. None. Don’t let anybody tell you otherwise. It is…
BY CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— On Monday night, hooligans identified with the national religious camp staged three unlawful, and in at least one case violent, protests against the IDF. First, several dozen people surrounded by hundreds of reporters pretended to set up a new settlement along the border with Jordan. Their aim was to protest Jordan’s…
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The U.S. Commission of International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) is scheduled to close for good tomorrow. Created in 1998, the USCIRF provides recommendations to the State Department and acts as a watch dog on international religious freedom. “…f you eliminate USCIRF, you send a terrible signal internationally that we are less concerned about religious freedom,” Chris…
BY DAN CALIC, YNET— “Don’t ask me nothing about nothing about nothing, I just might tell you the truth.” The iconic song writer Bob Dylan penned these lyrics in the mid 1960s. In light of the recent comments by presidential candidate Newt Gingrich regarding the “Palestinians,” Mr. Gingrich might feel inclined to invoke Dylan’s lyric…
BY ELAD BENARI, ARUTZ 7— U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday said that Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich’s remarks about Palestinian Authority Arabs were “unhelpful.” Gingrich told The Jewish Channel last week that the claim of Palestinian Authority Arabs to be “a people” is not legitimate. The former Speaker of the House of…
BY MICHAEL FREUND, JEWISH PRESS— What a remarkable breath of fresh air. For the first time in recent memory, a prominent American politician has had the courage to speak some unvarnished truths about the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. In video footage released on December 9, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich told the Jewish…