B'tayavon: Almond Baklava

While not technically one of the seven species, almonds (shaked in Hebrew) have become a sort of unofficial eighth species due to their close association with Tu B’Shvat. Almond trees grow all over Israel today and they tend to bloom right around the time that Tu B’Shvat usually occurs. Look for cardamom in your spice…

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Almond Baklava

While not technically one of the seven species, almonds (shaked in Hebrew) have become a sort of unofficial eighth species due to their close association with Tu B’Shvat. Almond trees grow all over Israel today and they tend to bloom right around the time that Tu B’Shvat usually occurs. Look for cardamom in your spice…

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Chapter 8 – The Danger of Over Familiarity

By PAT HUTCHENS, A rework of Imitation of Messiah by Thomas A. Kempis— Open not your heart to everyone, but keep your inmost thoughts only for wise people who fear God. Young people need time and strangers are a risk. Do not flatter the rich nor set out to make friends with people in high…

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Sending a message to Iran

BY ILAN BERMAN, FORBES— Of late, as the political debate in the United States and Europe has shifted to talk of the need for military action to stop Iran’s march toward the bomb, a funny thing has happened: the economic pressure being levied by the West has begun to have serious effect. That is the…

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Israel: A Priceless Strategic Military Asset for the US

BY MARK LANGFAN, ARUTZ 7— After Hitler invaded Poland in 1939, in America, there were Hitler enablers like the American hero Charles Lindbergh who publicly championed– the Big Lie– that England was a strategic liability to the US, was the cause of world war, and, that England needed to be dumped. Today, there is a…

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The myth of occupied East Jerusalem

BY RICHARD BOOKER, PART 7 of MYTHOMANIACS— When the highly paid professionals at Myth News Network report the latest happenings in Israel, they invariably talk about “occupied Arab East Jerusalem.” They usually mean the Old City and its surroundings. The idea planted in our minds is that the Arabs have been living in East Jerusalem…

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Video: Crossing the Line

Crossing the Line:  The Intifada Comes to Campus, produced by acclaimed filmmaker Raphael Shore and directed by Wayne Kopping, explores the proliferation of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic incidents on North American college campuses.  In particular, the film explores the rapid growth of such incidents following the launch of Operation Cast Lead by Israel’s military into Gaza in late December 2008…

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US cuts Israel missle aid

BY GLOBES— The Obama administration’s budget proposal for the 2013 fiscal year, which begins in October 2012, includes reductions in US aid for Israel’s Arrow and Iron Dome anti-missile programs for the second consecutive year. The budget proposal increases regular military aid to $3.15 billion from $3 billion this year, in line with the 2007…

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Krauthammer: Israel 'will strike Iran' to prevent a second Holocaust

On Friday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel, Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer doubled down on an assertion he made last week about the inevitability of an Israeli strike on Iran to limit the Islamic republic’s nuclear capabilities. Krauthammer referred to a Washington Post column in which David Ignatius indicated, generally, when Defense Secretary…

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Anti-Semitism has become Politically Correct

BY RON JAGER— We really shouldn’t be surprised that Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei only recently released a new doctrine explaining why it would be ‘legally and morally justified’ to commit genocide and wipe Israel off the map. “Israel is a cancerous tumor in the Middle East,” Khameini wrote for the ultraconservative Farsi-language Alef…

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A tale of two wars

BY DANIEL GREENFIELD, SULTAN KNISH— There are two possible conflicts on the table in Washington. One is with Iran and the other with Syria. The Iran conflict is the one that Washington doesn’t want. Its most likely trigger at this stage is an Israeli assault on Iran’s nuclear program. Like most of the wars centering…

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Abbas: We won't recognize Israel as a Jewish state

BY ELAD BENARI, ARUTZ 7— Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said on Sunday that the PA will not meet Israel’s demand that it recognize Israel as the Jewish State, Kol Yisrael radio reported. According to the report, Abbas explained this statement using the reasoning that once that the PA agrees to this requirement, there would…

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Netanyahu: Iran responsible for attacks on Israeli embassies

BY MORAN AZULAY, YNET— Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Iran and Hezbollah of being behind Monday’s double terror attack on the Israeli embassies in India and Georgia. Earlier, an explosion hit an Israeli diplomatic car near the embassy in New Delhi, injuring the wife of a diplomat stationed with the Defense Ministry’s mission in India.…

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Video: That whoever believes in me

No matter who you are or how you’ve lived your life to this point, God will receive you into His family. He will change you and make you complete. Trust Him, as these people and millions of others have done. “I am the LORD, the God of all mankind. Is anything too hard for me?”…

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Spot Report: The coming (inevitable) conflict

Think on this! “When these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.” He told them this parable: “Look at the fig tree and all the trees.  When they sprout leaves, you can see for yourselves and know that summer is near. Even so, when…

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The Global War on Christians in the Muslim World

By AYAAN HIRSI ALI, NEWSWEEK— We hear so often about Muslims as victims of abuse in the West and combatants in the Arab Spring’s fight against tyranny. But, in fact, a wholly different kind of war is underway—an unrecognized battle costing thousands of lives. Christians are being killed in the Islamic world because of their religion. It is…

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(How) should Israel attack Iran?

BY BRET STEPHENS, WSJ— Can Israel attack Iran? If it can, will it? If it will, when? If when, how? And what happens after that? On Sunday with Matt Lauer, President Obama said “I don’t think that Israel has made a decision on what they need to do.” That didn’t square with the view of…

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