Iran boasts U.S. has abandoned Israel

BY REZA KAHLILI, WND— Iranian outlets have been claiming recently the United States has been forced to bow before Iran on its nuclear program, demonstrating the West’s abandonment of Israel and paving the way for the Islamic regime to annihilate the Jewish state. While restating that Iran will demand ever more in the upcoming second…

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Shavuot for Kids

What is Shavuot? Shavuot—also known as the Feast of Weeks or Pentecost—is a Jewish holiday celebrating the giving of the Ten Commandments and the Torah (the first five books of the Bible). When God delivered the Hebrews out of slavery in Egypt he brought them into the wilderness to camp.  During this time God provided for…

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Christians, Jews to unite against Islam

BY GIULIO MEOTTI, YNET— The Coliseum, where thousands upon thousands of “Judaeis” have been massacred by the Roman emperors, became for one night an arena for alliance between Christians and Jews against “odium fidei,” or religious hatred. Last Wednesday in Rome, Jewish leaders for the first time rallied alongside Christians in a candlelit vigil to…

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What the Evangelicals Give the Jews

By MICHAEL MEDVED, COMMENTARY— Many Jewish voters this November will find themselves at a crossroads: Will they accept their deep disappointment with Barack Obama and vote for his reelection, or will they overcome their own discomfort with Christian evangelicals and vote for the Republican candidate? The irrepressible argument about the appropriate relationship between the Jewish…

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Professor Netanyahu's lessons

BY CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— In all of our many conversations that took place over the better part of the past decade, I never asked Prof. Benzion Netanyahu what led him to become an historian. Certainly it was a function of his concern for his nation and his recognition that our very existence hung in the…

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Spot Report: Obama declares war on God

Think on this: “Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman: That is detestable.”…”Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for…

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When General Grant Expelled the Jews

BY JEFF JACOBY, COMMENTARY— In December 1862, from his military headquarters in Mississippi, Major General Ulysses S. Grant issued a directive expelling “Jews as a class” from the immense war zone known as the Department of the Tennessee. General Orders No. 11 was the most notorious anti-Jewish edict ever issued by an official of the…

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Echoes of '67: Israel unites

BY CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER, In May 1967, in brazen violation of previous truce agreements, Egypt ordered U.N. peacekeepers out of the Sinai, marched 120,000 troops to the Israeli border, blockaded the Straits of Tiran (Israel’s southern outlet to the world’s oceans), abruptly signed a military pact with Jordan and, together with Syria, pledged war for the…

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B'tayavon: Falafel

*The first time I tried falafel I thought it was the best thing I ever put in my mouth. After four years in Israel, however, I grew a little falafel-weary. A falafel stand is as common in Beer Sheva as a crawfish drive-thru in Louisiana. I took this chickpea delicacy (also known as Israel’s national…

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Netanyahu on victory day over Nazi Germany

BY ISRAEL MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS— Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today (Wednesday), 9 May 2012, met with the leaders of Red Army veterans, on the occasion of Victory Day over Nazi Germany, and received from them a Red Army victory ribbon, one of the Red Army’s highest decorations for bravery. Prime Minister Netanyahu said, “You…

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The real Palestinian refugee problem

BY CLIFFORD D. MAY, NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE— After World War II, the British left India, which was to be partitioned into two independent nations. One of them would have a Hindu majority, the other a Muslim majority. More than 7 million Muslims moved to the territory that became Pakistan. A similar number of Hindus and…

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