By KHALED ABU TOAMEH, GATESTONE— If the Egyptian army succeeds in demolishing the underground smuggling tunnels that keep Hamas running, it could mark the end of the Islamists’ rule over the Gaza Strip. But if Egypt’s new president, Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood tie the hands of the Egyptian army’s generals and keep them…
DetailsBy GIULIO MEOTTI, ARUTZ 7— The century of Joseph Goebbels has taught all of us that a lie starts as a very small one, but if it is not corrected, it festers like a virus destroying truth. A few days ago, the United Church of Canada, the country’s largest Protestant denomination, and South Africa’s government…
DetailsBY SHELLEY NEESE— I am a Christian. And I am a Zionist. But it took me years of being both to realize that I’m a Christian Zionist. Though I consider myself a strong Christian and a committed lover of Israel, out of college I was leery of calling myself a Christian Zionist. My definition of…
DetailsIngredients 2 tablespoons olive oil ¼ teaspoon cumin pinch of cinnamon pinch of cayenne pepper 1 red onion, sliced thin ½ cup lemon juice, fresh ½ salt, divided 1 ½ lemons, seeded and the flesh chopped in chunks 6 dates, cut into thin slivers 4 large oranges, peeled and sliced thin Directions 1) For the…
DetailsBy YAIR ROSENBERG, TABLET— With all the speculation in recent weeks over whether Mitt Romney would tap a fellow Mormon to deliver a prayer at the Republican National Convention, one never would have guessed that the opening invocation would be delivered by a rabbi. But on Tuesday afternoon, when the convention makes its belated beginning…
DetailsBy ISRAEL HAYOM— The “dictatorial, evil, and bloodthirsty” Iranian regime must be immediately placed in a position in which it needs to choose between developing nuclear weapons and its own survival, Vice Prime Minister Moshe Ya’alon said on Tuesday at a memorial ceremony in Bulgaria for the victims of last month’s terrorist attack in Burgas.…
DetailsBy 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…
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