By MICHAEL FREUND– Across the long, winding and often painful sweep of Jewish history, the festival of Hanukka has proven to be a reliable companion. Despite the passage of over two millennia, the heroism of the Maccabees and the miracle of the oil, together with the deliverance from foreign occupation and the liberation of the…
DetailsThink on this: “I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed by you.”…”If you listen carefully to to what say and do all that I say, I will be an enemy to your enemies and will oppose those that oppose you.”…”Yahweh…
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By RAFAEL L. BARDAJI, GATESTONE— The agreement reached by the group of countries known as P-5+1½ (that is, the five permanent U.N. Security Council powers plus Germany and the European Union representative) with Iran regarding its nuclear program has been rated by its proponents—President Obama’s followers—as a “historic agreement,” while opponents—primarily Israel and the Gulf…
DetailsBy DEBKAfile Special Report — The former heads of two of the most powerful intelligence agencies in the world, speaking Sunday, Dec. 1, in different parts of the world, were of the same opinion: Iran has reached the point of a nuclear threshold state and can build several nuclear bombs in a matter of weeks. By…
DetailsBy CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST — Israel, he said, “will not be Czechoslovakia.” Sharon was sharply rebuked not only by the White House, but by leading American supporters of Israel. They attacked him for daring to make the comparison. In time, with the US invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, Sharon’s warning was largely forgotten. The question…
DetailsBy VICTOR SHARPE, CANADA FREE PRESS— It was President Carter in 1979 who naively misunderstood the internal politics of Iran and let the Shah, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, be overthrown by Islamists. Carter was overjoyed to let the Ayatollah Khomeini return from his exile in France to take over the Iranian state. Astonishingly as we look…
DetailsBy ISRAEL TODAY— Israeli Jews on Sunday were again denied freedom of religion at Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, of all places, when a near-riot by Muslim worshipers resulted in police closing the holy site to all but the followers of Allah. A Muslim mob became enraged when a small group of visiting Jews began singing songs…
DetailsTorah: Genesis 44:18 – 47:27, “Vayigash” (and he drew near …) Haftorah: Ezekiel 37:15 – 18 New Testament: Ephesians 2:1 – 10 Gospel: Luke 6:9 – 16, “Amar lehem Yeshuah” (Jesus said to them …)
DetailsThink on this: “Do not let anyone deceive you in any way, for the Day of the LORD will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. He will oppose and exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he…
Details“Ten measures of beauty descended to the world, nine were taken by Jerusalem.”-–Talmud: Kiddushin 49b
This is the story of something so tremendously tremendous that it won’t happen again for another 79,000 years.
By CAROLINE GLICK— It isn’t surprising that the US and the other five powers signed a deal with Iran on Saturday. Over the past few weeks, US President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry made it clear that they were committed to signing a deal with Iran as quickly as possible. And it…
DetailsBy ARIEL RUDOLPH, ISRAEL TODAY— As most of us know, Hanukkah commemorates the miracle of the oil. Once the Maccabees restored the Temple to Jewish control, the Temple oil burned for eight days when there was only enough oil to burn for one. One of the traditions of Hanukkah is to eat foods cooked in…
DetailsBy AMBASSADOR (RET.) YORAM ETTINGER— 1. For the first time – and never again – the first day of Chanukah will be celebrated on Thanksgiving, the fourth Thursday in November, November 28, 2013. Since the Jewish calendar is based on a 19 year cycle (when a “leap month” is added – seven times – to…
DetailsBy DAN MARGALIT, ISRAEL HAYOM— A colleague who specializes in modern history remarked to me on Sunday that the deal signed with Iran is not comparable to the disgrace signed in Munich in 1938. In this historian’s eyes, the appropriate comparison is the West’s silence in the face of Hitler’s invasion of the Rhineland in…
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