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“We shall fight, every Jew in the homeland will fight. The God of Israel, the Lord of Hosts, will aid us. There will be no retreat. Freedom or Death!”–-Former Israeli Prime Minister Menacham Begin
Would the Maccabees be proud?
BY MICHAEL FREUND, JPOST— As Jews around the world gather to celebrate Hanukka, the festival of lights, it is only natural that we look back with pride at what our ancestors were able to accomplish. Over two millennia ago a small band of freedom fighters rose up against the Seleucid tyrant Antiochus and his despotism,…
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'US, Israel on same page'
BY JPOST AND REUTERS— The United States understands the true military threat posed by Iran’s nuclear program and is on the same page with Israel regarding the severity of the issue, Home Front Defense Minister Matan Vilnai said Wednesday, according to Channel 10 news. “The Americans are aware of the true intelligence and they understand…
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Video: 8 days of donuts
Every Hannukah, Israelis stop counting calories long enough to buy about 24 million mouth-watering, sweet and gooey, deep-fried sufganiyot. An estimated 24 million filled donuts (sufganiyot in Hebrew) are sold in Israel each Hannukah season. That adds up to $13 million in sales and 10.8 billion calories, at an average 450 per fried treat –…
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Book of Maccabees
BY RABBIN DAVID EBSTEN, TRAVELUJAH— Growing up as a young boy on the south side of Chicago, I loved sports and Hebrew school. I hesitate to call my self a Hebrew school junkie, but I loved going there. Learning Hebrew was a new world for me that I loved exploring, and studying the fascinating stories…
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'Tis the season for the Church to support Israel
BY ANDREW TUCKER, JPOST— Christians worldwide are gearing up to celebrate Christmas. Christmas trees are being erected, presents purchased and the turkeys prepared for the oven. Millions of church services will be held on December 25 to mark the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. The tragedy is, most of us have no idea why. We…
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Israel hopes death of North Korean leader will damage ties with Iran
BY AMIR OREN, HAARETZ— 2011 has been a bad year for dictators, whether those, like Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak, whose stay in power was convenient for Israel or those, like Syria’s Bashar Assad, who are Israel’s enemies. Now that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has died, the transfer of power to the third generation –…
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Obama and Barak discuss dwindling anti-Iran strike options as the US exits Iraq
BY DEBKAFILE— US President Barack Obama’s half-hour tête-a- tête with Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak in Washington Friday, Dec. 16, was vitally concerned with the coming steps in the Syrian showdown and the latest developments in the controversy over Iran’s nuclear weapons program, debkafile’s Washington and intelligence sources report. Their conference was urgent because key…
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Easy Sufganiyot (no yeast)
Ingredients 3 cups of unbleached flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 2 tablespoons sugar 2 eggs 2 cups sour cream 3 cups of vegetable oil for frying 1 cup of favorite seedless jam Powdered sugar Directions 1) In a large bowl combine the flour, baking powder, sugar, eggs and sour cream. Mix until well blended. 2)…
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Sufganiyot
Ingredients 2 tablespoons active dry yeast 1/2 cup warm water 1/4 cup plus 1 teaspoon sugar 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 2 large eggs 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature 1/2 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg 2 teaspoons salt 3 cups vegetable oil 1 cup of your favorite jam (seedless) Powdered sugar Directions 1) In a small bowl,…
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Video: North Korea Was and Is Connected to Terror Against Israel
BY ELAD BENARI AND YONI KEMPINSKI, ARUTZ 7— While the death of North Korea’s leader in the past 17 years, Kim Jong Il, may seem like it is not connected to Israel, Attorney Nitzana Darshan-Leitner who heads the Shurat HaDin organization, reminded on Monday of the connection between North Korea and terrorism in the Middle…
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North Korea's coming power struggle and the Mid-East nuclear race
BY DEBKAFILE— The sudden death of Kim Jong II, of a heart attack aged 69, Monday, Dec. 19 – even though his youngest son Kim Jong-un was hailed as successor – confronts the world for the first time since the Cold War with a leaderless nuclear power about which it knows almost nothing. Though anointed…
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Speaker Gingrich’s “Newtonian” logic
BY VICTOR SHARPE— The more things change, the more they stay the same. Nothing could attest to that fact more than the Israel-Arab conflict, which in reality is the Israel-Islamist conflict. This is not a territorial dispute between Israel and those Arabs who call themselves Palestinians, though it is framed as such. No, the stark…
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A Proclamation for Truth in the Mid-East Conflict
Sponsored by The Jerusalem Connection, Int’l EMET (Endowment for Middle East Truth) Whether or not you support the candidacy of Newt Gingrich, one must applaud him for having the courage to say it like it is regarding the so called, “Palestinians”, when he said “we have invented the Palestinian people, who are in fact Arabs…
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B'tayavon: Sufganiyot
Ingredients 2 tablespoons active dry yeast 1/2 cup warm water 1/4 cup plus 1 teaspoon sugar 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 2 large eggs 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature 1/2 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg 2 teaspoons salt 3 cups vegetable oil 1 cup of your favorite jam (seedless) Powdered sugar Directions 1) In a…
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B'tayavon: Easy Sufganiyot (no yeast)
Ingredients 3 cups of unbleached flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 2 tablespoons sugar 2 eggs 2 cups sour cream 3 cups of vegetable oil for frying 1 cup of favorite seedless jam Powdered sugar Directions 1) In a large bowl combine the flour, baking powder, sugar, eggs and sour cream. Mix until well blended. 2)…
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550 Palestinians released completing Schalit deal
BY YAAKOV LAPIN, JPOST The inmates, most of whom had already served most of their sentences, were transferred in convoys of Prisons Service buses, guarded by police escorts. The 544 men were gathered at Ayalon Prison in Ramle, and were joined by the six women from Sharon Prison. They were taken to four release points.…
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