BY YOCHONON DONN— Despite contrary media reports, Ukrainian Jews remain relatively safe even as the country’s government — still reeling from the stunning downfall of its president, Viktor Yanukovych — begins to rebuild, the country’s chief rabbi told Hamodia, the Daily Newspaper of Torah Jewry in an interview Sunday. Returning from a Manhattan press conference…
DetailsBy DALIT HALEVI and ELAD BENARI, ARUTZ7-— Lawmakers from Hamas on Sunday warned Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas against recognizing Israel as part of the ongoing peace process. The lawmakers said that recognition of Israel as a Jewish state would be a “death sentence” against the PA. Ibrahim Dahbour, one of Hamas’s representative in…
DetailsBy SAM SOKOL, JPOST— Despite the lack of a defined threat against them, representatives of Ukrainian Jewry indicated that they feel a general sense of unease as the pro – tests that shook Kiev for the last three months wind down. There is currently “no information of Jews being targeted, but there is a danger…
DetailsBY LEA SPEYER, BREAKING ISRAEL NEWS— Masked men wearing military uniform paraded down the streets of the West Bank city of Abu Dis this weekend, marking the 45th anniversary of the creation of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP). The DFLP is one of the largest terror organizations associated with the PLO.…
Details“Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!”—Former Prime Minister Golda Meir
By ELAD BENARI, ARUTZ 7— Iran’s President, Hassan Rouhani, on Wednesday said that Jerusalem should “be liberated from the yoke of Israel.” The comments were made during a meeting in Tehran between Rouhani and the Speaker or the Palestinian Authority (PA) parliament, Salim Zanoun, and were reported by the semi-official Fars news agency. During the…
DetailsBy BARRY SHAW, JPOST— You know what the one major problem would be should Israel foolishly agree to surrender territory to an aggressive new Palestinian state? There is no going back. The world will never allow Israel to reconquer any territory. Why should Israel give in to international pressure without a guaranteed right to regain…
DetailsThe Temple Mount, the heart of the Israeli Arab conflict. Cameras had the rare opportunity to film the interior of the Domb of the Rock. Moslems throughout the world relate to the shrine as the symbol of the pan Islamic struggle against Israel. They deny any Jewish links to the site, but the archeological artifacts…
DetailsBy DR. INNA ROGATCHI, ROGATCHI FOUNDATION— The most worrisome and largely overseen factor of the ongoing Ukrainian tragedy, to me, is the mighty presence among the opposition hard-core militants from ultra-right nationalistic parties and movements there. The threat which is posed by those forces shall be not under-estimated, especially in the context of rapidly rising…
DetailsBy STAN GOODENOUGH, JERUSALEM WATCHMAN— “Our enemies are little worms. I saw them at Munich.” – Adolf Hitler, after the Western Powers wilted before his aggressive adamancy at Munich. Instead of sitting like an equal alongside European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Margeret Ashton in Vienna, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Muhammed Zarif should be being…
DetailsBy MICHAEL FREUND— Somewhere, deep in the bowels of hell, Spanish King Ferdinand and his wife Queen Isabella are most assuredly burning with rage. Over five centuries after the wicked monarchs cruelly expelled the country’s Jews in 1492, Spain now finds itself clamoring for their return. In an irony as sweet as it is long…
DetailsThink on this: “The ten horns are ten kings who will come from this kingdom. After them another king will arise, different from the earlier ones; he will subdue three kings. He will speak against the Most High and oppress his holy people and try to change the set times and the laws. The holy…
DetailsBy SUSAN MICHAEL, ICEJ-USA — A disturbing study guide entitled “Zionism Unsettled” has been published by an arm of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) The publication is filled with distorted facts and a historical narrative so extreme that some Jewish groups are calling it “hate speech.” It vilifies Israel and Zionism while ignoring Palestinian terrorism, calls…
DetailsBy ISRAEL HAYOM— In the past, anti-Semites boycotted Jewish businesses and today they call for the boycott of the Jewish state, says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu • Finance Minister Yair Lapid: Lack of progress in peace talks would endanger stability of coalition. European calls for a boycott of Israel are “an outrage,” Prime Minister Benjamin…
DetailsBy SAM SOKOL, JPOST — Jewish leader says organizing a mass boycott of Israel, as civilians are massacred next door in Syria, is explicit anti-Semitism. European leaders need to take a tougher stand against the rise of the nationalist Right, the leader of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations said on Monday.Speaking…
DetailsBy DR. JOSEPH FRAGER, ARUTZ7 — The Obama administration’s soft approach to Iran’s nuclear program may have done more than simply making a conventional strike more likely. President Obama has had a constant refrain when it comes to Iran – “I’m keeping all options on the table”. The likelihood of President Obama using any kind…
DetailsBy ISRAEL TODAY— Think the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is winding down? Think again. In 2013 alone, one of Judaism’s holiest sites, the traditional tomb of the biblical matriarch Rachel, was attacked no fewer than 200 times by Palestinian mobs. Rachel’s Tomb, located just inside Bethlehem, is a highly frequented place of prayer for religious Jews. While…
DetailsBy VICTOR SHARPE— By one of those odd coincidences, I had just finished watching Clint Eastwood’s movie on the rise to power of J. Edgar Hoover when I came across the following commentary, written by J. R. Nyquist in his blog titled, The Time Traveler’s Lesson. It is of an imaginary interrogation by Hoover himself…
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