GOP Convention's Rabbi-in-Chief

By 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…

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Israel warns Iran to choose between nukes and survival

By 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.…

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Ron Jager defends Judea and Samaria's water usage

By 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…

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Roasted pepper and walnut dip

Ingredients 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…

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B'tayavon: Roasted pepper and walnut dip

Ingredients 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…

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Iran forced to backtrack on guided nuclear tour for NAM leaders and Ban

By 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…

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Abbas Denies Jewish Temple and Christian Theology

By 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…

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IDF exercises response to multiple rocket landings

By 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…

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Video: Comfort my people

These 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…

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Minority elites and Israel's Jewish defamers

By 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…

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South African BDS or just BS

By 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…

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Israel and the Jewish Left

By 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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Wish I'd said that

“Civilization hangs suspended, from generation to generation, by the gossamer strand of memory. If only one cohort of mothers and fathers fails to convey to its children what it has learned from its parents, then the great chain of learning and wisdom snaps. If the guardians of human knowledge stumble only one time, in their…

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Israel faces a cynical world

By CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— This week a German doctor in Bavaria filed a criminal complaint against Rabbi David Goldberg. Rabbi Goldberg’s “crime”? He performs ritual circumcisions on Jewish male infants in accordance with Jewish law. The doctor’s complaint came shortly after a ruling by a court in Cologne outlawing the practice of male circumcision. The…

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Video: Dovid Moskovits sings "You raise me up"

From the Jewish Star 2012 winner Dovid Moskovits comes his latest release, Sa’eni Nah. Written by Zvika Bornstein with music by Rolf Lovland, this is the first time that the song “You Raise Me Up” has been covered in Hebrew and the touching lyrics transcend language and culture, speaking words of solace and comfort that…

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The Cordesman Criteria: How to prevent war with Iran

By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER, WASHINGTON POST  — Either Israel is engaged in the most elaborate ruse since the Trojan horse or it is on the cusp of a preemptive strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities. What’s alarming is not just Iran’s increasing store of enriched uranium or the growing sophistication of its rocketry. It’s also the increasingly…

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