By ISI LEIBLER, AISH.com– Robert Wistrich, Hebrew University professor of European and Jewish History and director of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of anti-Semitism has just published his 29th book titled “From Ambivalence to Betrayal: The Left, the Jews and Israel”. It is an impressive tome of over 600 pages and follows…
DetailsBy AARON HELLER, ASSOCIATED PRESS– One of the world’s most decorated Olympians is living quietly in Israel, a country that just wrapped up its participation in the world competition without a single medal. Agnes Keleti, 91 now, won 10 Olympic medals in gymnastics, including five golds, for Hungary in the 1950s before defecting and emigrating…
DetailsBy JONATHAN TOBIN, COMMENTARY— Last week’s terror attack on Egyptian army troops by jihadists whose ultimate aim was to kill Israelis provoked an unexpectedly harsh reaction from Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi. The chaos in the Sinai is the direct result of the revolution that brought down the Mubarak regime. The Hamas government looked to benefit…
DetailsBy JENNIFER LIPMAN, THE JC— The man picked to run for the White House alongside Republican hopeful Mitt Romney has stated that the US has “no better friend in the Middle East than the nation of Israel”. Paul Ryan, the Wisconsin congressman named as Mr Romney’s running mate, is a committed Catholic and considered to…
DetailsBy CHANA YA’AR, ARUTZ 7— The Hizbullah terror leadership claimed Monday that its missiles can now reach all of Israeli territory. Speaking at a ceremony in southern Lebanon, Nabil Ka’uk announced from the podium that “Hizbullah rockets can reach all Israeli settlements,” referring to Israeli towns and cities. The reference by Ka’uk, who is deputy…
DetailsBy MICHAL SHMULOVICH, TIMES OF ISRAEL– Israeli officials issued a withering response Saturday to assurances from the White House that the US would know in good time if Iran was making a “breakout” to a nuclear weapon. The Americans “didn’t see 9/11 coming,” Israel’s Channel 2 news quoted what it said were “sources in Jerusalem”…
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by Daniel McCabe— Temple Mount Teaching on the End of the Age Luke 21:6, “As for these things which you see, the days will come in which not one stone shall be left upon another that shall not be thrown down.” It has had many names over the years—Mount Moriah, the threshing floor of Araunah,…
Detailsby Daniel McCabe— Temple Mount Teaching on the End of the Age Luke 21:6, “As for these things which you see, the days will come in which not one stone shall be left upon another that shall not be thrown down.” It has had many names over the years—Mount Moriah, the threshing floor of Araunah,…
DetailsThink on this: If some of the branches have been broken off, and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root, do not consider yourself to be superior to those other branches. If you do, consider this: You do…
DetailsTorah: Deuteronomy 7:12 – 11:25, “Ekev” (As a result …) Haftorah: Isaiah 49:14 – 51:3) New Testament: Romans 8:31 – 39 Gospel: Luke 11:5 -11, “Bicshu, chapshu, & difchu” (Ask, seek & knock …)
DetailsBy KHALED ABU TOAMEH, GATESTONE— If Muslim fanatics cannot tolerate moderate and secular Muslims, why should they be expected to accept those who belong to other faiths? As all eyes were turned this week toward Sinai, where Muslim fundamentalists killed 16 Egyptian border guards while they were having the Ramadan fast-breaking meal, Christian families were…
DetailsBy HILLEL KUTTLER, NY TIMES— Our family trip to Cleveland for Monday night’s Indians game would ordinarily prompt a historical detour, perhaps to the site of League Park, where the Bill Wambsganss-era Indians played. Instead, I can stomach only a David Berger tour now. “Do you know the name David Berger?” I said to my…
DetailsBY LEONARD GREENE, NYPOST— It wasn’t a gloved-fist salute from the medal stand, but Jewish-American gymnast Aly Raisman made quite a statement yesterday by winning a gold medal and invoking the memory of the Israeli athletes killed 40 years ago in Munich. Raisman finished first in the women’s floor exercise, but she deserves to have…
DetailsBy RYAN JONES, ISRAEL TODAY— Israeli Environmental Protection Minister Gilad Erdan this week questioned why Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has remained mum on the findings of a recently concluded legal commission that concluded Jews do have a legal right to build and live in Judea and Samaria (the so-called “West Bank”). “After years in which,…
DetailsBy ILAN BEN ZION, TIMES OF ISRAEL— Hezbollah MP Walid Sakariya told Lebanese television this week that the nuclear weapon Iran is allegedly developing is intended to annihilate Israel. In a segment recorded and translated by MEMRI (the Middle East Media Research Institute), Sakariya, also a retired general, told his interviewer on Hezbollah’s al-Manar TV…
DetailsBy ZACHARY FISHER, inCONTEXT— Thirty-five masked gunmen in Bedouin attire opened fire Sunday at an Egyptian Army checkpoint near the convergent borders of Egypt, Israel, and the Gaza Strip. Sixteen Egyptian soldiers were killed and seven were injured in the ensuing gun battle. The gunmen then seized two vehicles and headed towards Israel in an…
DetailsBy JONATHAN S. TOBIN, COMMENTARY— Israel is being criticized today in the world press for playing hardball with five of the 12 non-aligned nations that had hoped to gather in Ramallah to formally back the Palestinian Authority’s latest attempt to get the United Nations to back their bid for statehood. The delegations from Algeria, Bangladesh,…
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