By THE ISRAEL PROJECT— Jerusalem, Sep. 16 – As the Jewish New Year 5773 is set to begin at sundown on Sunday, here is a timeline of some of the significant events that occurred during the Hebrew calendar year of 5772: September 29, 2011: New Year 5772 in the Hebrew calendar begins. October 11, 2011:…
DetailsBy JOSEPH PUDER, FRONTPAGE-— President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) may very well have told Jewish leaders who came to him pleading for his help in the rescue of the trapped Jews of Europe in the early 1940s something similar to what was uttered by President Barack Obama last March at the AIPAC conference in Washington:…
DetailsBy RYAN JONES, ISRAEL TODAY— US presidential candidate Mitt Romney recently suggested that if he wins the current race for the White House, he will significantly alter the degree and manner of America’s involvement in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Likening the situation to the ongoing tug-of-war between China and Taiwan, Romney told a room of…
DetailsBy JONAH GOLDBERG, TOWNHALL— The Obama administration’s omnibus answer to why the Middle East (and now much of the Muslim world) is in near open rebellion against the United States: The video did it. The follow-up question no one seems to be asking is: “What if the administration’s explanation is true?” White House Press Secretary…
DetailsBy BOAZ BISMUTH, ISRAEL HAYOM— In his book “The Clash of Civilizations,” Professor Samuel Huntington addresses the Islamic and Chinese conflicts with the West. Huntington prophesied that cultural and religious identities would be the primary source of conflict in the post-Cold War world. Recent events in the Middle East and around the Pacific Ocean attest…
DetailsBy HAARETZ— Amid what has already been labeled a new low in U.S.-Israeli relations over drawing “red lines” on Iran, the New York Times published an article on Tuesday depicting the Israeli Ambassador to the U.S., Michael Oren, as the official who’s task is to maintain contact between two administrations whose positions are “adversarial.” In…
DetailsTorah: Deuteronomy 31:1 – 30, “VaYelech” (and he went …) Haftorah: Isaiah 55:6 – 56:8 New Testament: Romans 7:7 – 12 Gospel: Matthew 22:34 – 40, “Shamu HaPeruseem” (The Pharisees heard … )
DetailsBy CHRISTOPHER COLLINS, EXAMINER— Charles Krauthammer, Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist, political commentator, and physician appeared on Special Report with Bret Braier and spoke about the State Department’s response to the protests in Cairo. Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.comKrauthammer said, “It looks as though the administration thinks about what has just happened.” He agreed…
DetailsBy MICHAEL BARONE, TOWNHALL— In Libya, U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three colleagues were murdered Tuesday. Earlier that day, protesters in Egypt stormed the U.S. embassy and tore down the American flag. It was “the day the roof fell in,” proclaimed blogger and historian Walter Russell Mead. Barack Obama’s “efforts to reconcile the U.S. and…
DetailsBy REUTERS— Supporters of the Shi’ite terrorist group Hezbollah are set to hit the streets of Beirut on Monday after its leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah called for protests against a film that portrays the Prophet Mohammad as a womanizer and a fool. Lebanon has already seen protests over the Internet video in the mainly Sunni…
DetailsBy MICHAEL FREUND, JPOST— With the onset of Rosh Hashana, it is difficult to recall the last time that the High Holy Day season seemed as rife with so much uncertainty. Indeed, the coming months promise to be fateful ones, as Israel grapples on several fronts with momentous strategic and diplomatic challenges whose repercussions will…
Details“Tzimmes” in Yiddish means “big deal” but don’t let that scare you because actually this dish is difficult to mess up. Tzimmes are often served during the Jewish high holidays, particularly during Rosh Hashanah since honey is the holiday’s grand symbol for a sweet new year. They are also useful at Passover since they are…
Details“Tzimmes” in Yiddish means “big deal” but don’t let that scare you because actually this dish is difficult to mess up. Tzimmes are often served during the Jewish high holidays, particularly during Rosh Hashanah since honey is the holiday’s grand symbol for a sweet new year. They are also useful at Passover since they are…
DetailsBy CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— As he suffocated to death at the US Consulate in Benghazi on the 11th anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the US, did US Ambassador Christopher Stevens understand why he and his fellow Americans were being murdered? From what we have learned of this man since he was killed, it…
DetailsBy REUTERS— A platoon of US Marines from with the fleet anti-terrorism security team have been sent to Yemen to bolster security at the embassy and are now on the ground in Sanaa, the Pentagon said on Friday. Elsewhere in the region, protesters against a film denigrating the Prophet Mohammad breached embassy walls in Tunisia…
Details“Israel matters in American politics like almost no other country on earth. Well beyond the American Jewish and the Protestant fundamentalist communities, the people and the story of Israel stir some of the deepest and most mysterious reaches of the American soul. The idea of Jewish and Israeli exceptionalism is profoundly tied to the idea…
DetailsTorah: Deuteronomy 29:10 – 30:20, “Nitsavim” (You are standing …) Haftorah: Isaiah 61:10 – 63:9 New Testament: Romans 10:1 – 13 Gospel: John 3:1 -21 “Hafruseem Nockdemus” (A Pharisee, Nicodemus …)
DetailsBy RON JAGER— “The emperor has no clothes!” That was the cry of a small child in the Hans Christian Andersen tale as the emperor made his way past, entirely unclothed, while no one had the nerve to speak up. There is much in common between Andersen’s emperor and President Obama; both have no real…
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