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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Spot Report: Comfort my People

Think on this: “‘Comfort , yes, comfort my people!’ says your God. Speak to the heart of Jerusalem, and cry out to her, that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned; that she has received from Yahweh’s hand double of all her sins.”… “Praise be to the God and Father of our LORD…

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Hezbollah threatens "tens of thousands" Israeli deaths

By ADAM CREDO, FREE BEACON— The leader of the terror group Hezbollah has vowed to unleash a barrage of missile attacks on Israel, potentially causing “tens of thousands of fatalities” in the Jewish state’s northern region, according to a recently translated interview. Hassan Nasrallah, the terror group’s longtime leader, briefly emerged from hiding late last…

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Time to authorize use of force again

By ELLIOTT ABRAMS, WEEKLY STANDARD— How America can stop what the New York Times calls “Israel’s March to War” is the hot topic this month. The issue—for the Times—is whether Israel is on the verge of bombing Iran’s nuclear sites, or can be persuaded to delay that decision and rely on the United States instead.…

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Making the case for Israel's legality

By DAVID PARSONS, JPOST (Christian Edition) — Howard Grief proves Israel is legally a Jewish state with the San Remo resolution of 1920. — After three decades of extensive research, no one makes a stronger legal case for Israel’s claim to Judea and Samaria than Howard Grief. Born in Montreal and educated in the law…

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Obama's World: Through a Glass Darkly

By VICTOR SHARPE, AMERICAN THINKER— For anyone who has eyes to see and ears to hear, and who is not terminally obtuse, the present incumbent of the Oval Office has deliberately helped engineer Islam’s latest and successful lust for world domination through sharia law and geopolitical contrivance. The Muslim cry of “first the Saturday people…

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Abbas denies the Jewish connection to Jerusalem

By HERB KEINON, JPOST— Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas denied the Jewish connection to Jerusalem on Tuesday, the same day he spoke by phone with both Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s envoy Yitzhak Molcho. Abbas issued a statement Tuesday, marking the 43rd anniversary of an attempt by deranged Australian Christian Denis…

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Israeli archaeologist digs into Nazi death camp

By  AP and ISRAEL HAYOM— When Israeli archaeologist Yoram Haimi decided to investigate his family’s unknown Holocaust history, he turned to the skill he knew best: He began to dig. After learning that two of his uncles were murdered in the infamous Sobibor death camp, he embarked on a landmark excavation project that is shining…

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