By GIULIO MEOTTI, ARUTZ 7— Anti-Semitism no longer shocks people. When legions of “Palestinian martyrs” started blowing themselves up in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Afula and Karnei Shomron, the British daily Guardian ran an editorial titled “Israel Has No Right to Exist”. Now that Iran’s nuclear facilities are close to manufacturing a new Hiroshima’s bomb, the…
DetailsBy ISRAEL HAYOM— President Shimon Peres will meet with the new head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis, next week, during a state visit to Italy. Peres will leave for Rome on Monday, for a visit that also includes meetings with Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, newly elected Prime Minister Enrico Letta, and local Jewish leaders.…
DetailsBy ISI LEIBLER — JPOST — CANDIDLY SPEAKING: Many consider it a wake-up call and believe that alarm bells should be ringing at major Jewish organizations. Visiting New York this week, I sought to assess the broader implications of the recent “International Peace Award” bestowed on former president Jimmy Carter by Yeshiva University’s Cardozo Law…
DetailsBy MICHAEL WILNER, JPOST— The last man to see the Tsarnaev brothers together alive was the unlucky owner of the Mercedes-Benz SUV they car-jacked. The victim told authorities that the two perpetrators of last week’s Boston Marathon bombings wanted to drive his car to New York, where they would continue their assault with a remaining…
DetailsBy EARL COX, JPOST— The ugly head of Muslim terrorism has risen again and this time with the recent bombing at the Boston Marathon. At least three people were killed and more than 150 maimed or wounded in that horrifying, inhumane bomb attack. You have to wonder how anyone could be so evil minded to…
DetailsBy AVIEL SCHNEIDER, ISRAEL TODAY— Last week, the laying of the cornerstone of the new “Palestinian Museum” made headlines worldwide. The museum is a private initiative that aims to tell a 200-year-old Palestinian history. Established adjacent to Birzeit University near Ramallah, the museum will be build in two stages and eventually encompass an area of…
DetailsBy VICTOR SHARPE, AMERICAN THINKER— Mahatma Gandhi is quoted in the book, Gandhi: The Power of Pacifism, by Catherine Clement, as follows: “While Hindus, Sikhs, Christians, Parsees and Jews, along with several million adherents of an animistic religion, all coexisted in relative harmony, one religion that would not accept compromise stood out from the rest:…
Details“The day is short, the task is abundant, the laborers are lazy, the wage is great and the Master of the house is insistent.”—Pirkei Avot 2:20 (Chapters of the Fathers)
By MICHAEL MUKASEY, WALL STREET JOURNAL— If your concern about the threat posed by the Tsarnaev brothers is limited to assuring that they will never be in a position to repeat their grisly acts, rest easy. The elder, Tamerlan—apparently named for the 14th-century Muslim conqueror famous for building pyramids of his victims’ skulls to commemorate…
DetailsBy AFP– A major US arms deal with Israel sends Iran a “very clear signal” that military action remains an option to stop it from going nuclear, US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel said in Tel Aviv on Sunday. Hagel’s remarks were made shortly before his arrival in the Jewish state at the start of a…
DetailsBy CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— As Independence Day celebrations were winding down Tuesday night, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu made a guest appearance on Channel 2’s left-wing satire show Eretz Nehederet. One of the final questions that the show’s host Eyal Kitzis asked the premier was how he would like to be remembered after he leaves office.…
DetailsThink on this: “You are my servant; I have chosen you and not rejected you. So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed , for I am you God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. … For I am Yahweh…
DetailsTorah: Leviticus 21:1 — 24:23, “Emor” (I say …) Haftorah: Ezekiel 44:15 — 31 New Testament: I Peter 2:4 — 10 Gospel: John 15:9 — 17, “Keshem shehaav” (Just as the Father…)
DetailsThink on this: “These men blaspheme in matters of which they are ignorant. They are like brute beasts, irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like beasts they too will perish. They will be paid back with suffering for the suffering they have caused.” (II Peter 2:24) Pray on…
DetailsThis text, by an anonymous author who lived sometime in late antiquity (4-7 CE) somewhere in the Byzantine Empire, is a strange and bold description of God. Mystical “travelers” would ascent to the heavens and describe the wondrous visions experienced there. Maimonides’ hated these texts, but it is the experience behind them which animates traditional…
DetailsEgyptian Salafi Cleric Murgan Salem told the Tahrir Square audience the Boston Bombing was meant to deliver a message. He admits that he has no idea who carried out the bombing but on his own analysis the bombing was too “amateur” to be the work of Al-Qaeda. He says that whoever did it was sending…
DetailsBy RAYMOND IBRAHIM, FRONTPAGE— While it is easy to confuse the recent jihadi attack on Egypt’s St. Mark Cathedral in Cairo as just more of the usual, this attack has great symbolic significance, and in many ways bodes great evil for Egypt’s millions of Christians. Consider some facts: St. Mark Cathedral—named after the author of…
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