BY RABBI DR. GERALD MEISTER, TRAVELUJAH— In the liturgical narrative of the Seder of Passover night, we are solemnly instructed that “in every generation each must regard himself as though personally coming out of Egypt.” The exodus from Egypt, the Passover, is not a one- time event, but the beginning of a continuing process even…
DetailsBY RON JAGER— The past two weeks will go down as the worst weeks of the Obama presidency. Obama managed to embarrass himself abroad, humiliate himself at home, reinforcing the underlying feeling that he shouldn’t have been elected in the first place, let alone be re-elected later this year. To begin with Obama responded to…
DetailsBY HERB KEINON, JPOST— Senior Quartet representatives will meet in Washington on Wednesday amid little expectation that they will have more luck this time kick-starting direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, UN Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon and…
DetailsBY LEO RENNERT, AMERICAN THINKER— There it is above the fold on the front page of the Sunday, April 8, New York Times, a tale of a long friendship between GOP presidential aspirant Mitt Romney and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with insinuations aplenty that it could become an unprecedented and worrisome Israeli influence conduit…
DetailsBY MICHAEL BARBARO, NY TIMES— The two young men had woefully little in common: one was a wealthy Mormon from Michigan, the other a middle-class Jew from Israel. But in 1976, the lives of Mitt Romney and Benjamin Netanyahu intersected, briefly but indelibly, in the 16th-floor offices of the Boston Consulting Group, where both had…
DetailsThe lyrics to traditional passover song Dayenu, meaning “It would have been sufficient…” If He had brought us out from Egypt, and had not carried out judgments against them Dayenu, it would have sufficed us! If He had carried out judgments against them, and not against their idols Dayenu, it would have sufficed us! If…
DetailsBY JPOST— At least 70,000 people from Israel and abroad gathered at the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City on Monday for the traditional priestly blessing. The blessing is held at the Kotel – the Hebrew name for the Western Wall – during the intermediate days of Passover and Sukkot, and also on Shavuot, and…
DetailsBY HAARETZ— No country would dare attack Iran, a top officer in the country’s elite Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) said on Monday, adding that Iranian forces planned to engage in more military drills in order to preserve their combat vigilance. The comments by Mohammad Pakpour, the head of the IRGC’s ground forces, came as Cmdr. Amy…
DetailsThink on this: “I dispersed them among the nations, and they were scattered thought the countries; I judged them according to their conduct and their actions…. It is not for your sake, people of Israel, that I am going to do these things, but for the sake of my holy name….I will show the holiness…
DetailsBY CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— Hamas terror boss Fathi Hamad is a notable figure. Hamad is both the director of Hamas’s al-Aksa television station and the terror group’s “minister” of the interior and national security. His double portfolio is a clear expression of the much ignored fact that for terrorists, propaganda is inseparable from violence. Hamad’s…
DetailsBY HELEN GRAY, KANSAS CITY STAR— This Friday, members of two religions will commemorate events from their faiths at the same time and the same place. St. Thomas the Apostle Episcopal Church in Overland Park will observe Good Friday at 7 p.m. in the sanctuary, where Jesus’ suffering on the cross will be remembered. And…
DetailsBY HELEN GRAY, KANSAS CITY STAR— This Friday, members of two religions will commemorate events from their faiths at the same time and the same place. St. Thomas the Apostle Episcopal Church in Overland Park will observe Good Friday at 7 p.m. in the sanctuary, where Jesus’ suffering on the cross will be remembered. And…
DetailsIt takes a little thought and creativity to come up with good desert options that are kosher for Passover. But these macaroons will take away any sense of deprivation. Ingredients 3 ½ cups whole pecans 2 tablespoons pure maple syrup 1 ⅓ cup packed brown sugar 2 cup unsweetened shredded coconut 1 teaspoon almond extract…
DetailsIt takes a little thought and creativity to come up with good desert options that are kosher for Passover. But these macaroons will take away any sense of deprivation. Ingredients 3 ½ cups whole pecans 2 tablespoons pure maple syrup 1 ⅓ cup packed brown sugar 2 cup unsweetened shredded coconut 1 teaspoon almond extract…
DetailsSouth Africa Chief Rabbi Dr Warren Goldstein, and Jewish recording artist Yaakov Shwekey have created a YouTube Sensation that has spread to every corner of the Jewish world. In a few short minutes, the video shows the miraculous sweep of Jewish destiny, from ancient Egypt to nuclear Iran, helping us to understand our world today.
BY SAMARA GREENBERG, inCONTEXT— The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), headed by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, honored former White House correspondent Helen Thomas in an award ceremony on Sunday. Maen Erekat, the PLO representative in Washington, hosted a dinner at his residence in an event that recognized Thomas for her “stand against the occupation” and “long…
DetailsBY JONATHAN TOBIN, COMMENTARY— The campaign of administration leaks aimed at undermining Israel’s position on Iran has been widely noted. But according to Robert Satloff, the respected head of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, the White House isn’t satisfied with blaming Israel for the chance that Americans might be killed in the event…
DetailsBY RYAN JONES, TRAVELUJAH— More and more Christians are celebrating Passover and the other biblical feasts as they become increasingly aware of their own faith’s Jewish background. And more and more of those Christians are choosing to celebrate Passover in the Holy Land. Doing so is significant for two reasons. First, Passover is a pilgrimage…
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