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Yom Kippur Guide for the Perplexed

By The Jerusalem Connection October 6, 2011

BY YORAM ETTINGER 1. Yom Kippur’s central theme is the plea for forgiveness from fellow human-beings, highlighting the most essential attributes of constructive leadership, healthy relationships and family and national cohesion: humility (admitting fallibility), faith, soul-searching, thoughtfulness, being considerate, compassion, accepting responsibility, minimizing personal hostility, magnanimity. In order to penetrate the heart of fellow human-beings,…

Video: Arab Springs vs Israeli democracy

By The Jerusalem Connection October 6, 2011

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The Peace of the Grave

By The Jerusalem Connection October 6, 2011

BY VICTOR SHARPE, FAMILY SECURITY MATTERS— Remember the Roadmap that Condoleezza Rice and President Bush had earlier forced upon Israel? Well it is still alive and the Obama regime and the Quartet continue imposing what history will recall as an insane repetition of failed policies. The endless concessions, imposed only upon Israel, known by the…

The "P" Word

By The Jerusalem Connection October 5, 2011

BY MICHAEL FREUND, JPOST— It is one of the international community’s favorite adjectives to hurl at Israel. Time and again, whenever the Jewish state takes some action of one sort or another, a parade of world leaders turns to their lexicons and reaches for this old, reliable term of censure with which to berate us.…

Video: anti-Semitism on Wall Street

By The Jerusalem Connection October 5, 2011

Glenn Beck played some disturbing audio on radio today of a young protestor shouting anti-Semitic remarks at Wall Street. In the video posted on The Blaze, a young man shouted things like “You’re a bum, Jew!” at a older Jewish man who was in the Financial Distrcit. You can watch the video below: “Nobody is…

The Self-Defeating Statehood Gambit

By The Jerusalem Connection October 5, 2011

BY ASAF ROMIROWSKY, JOINTMEDIA NEWS— Following the 10th anniversary of 9/11, the Palestinian Authority under Mahmoud Abbas has attempted to convince the world and the international community that their quest for statehood is just. Moreover, he would like us to believe that this “state” is responsible and accountable and deserves to be part of the…

Is This a Two State Solution — or a “Final Solution?”

By The Jerusalem Connection October 5, 2011

BY SARAH STERN, EMET— The Palestinian UN statehood bid — statehood without negotiations — which is now before the Security Council, is just the latest step in a never-ceasing effort by the Palestinian leadership to erase the State of Israel. This is the Two State Solution on the way to Hitler’s “Final Solution” — the…

Congress Needs to Investigate Corrupt Palestine Investment Fund

By The Jerusalem Connection October 4, 2011

BY JONATHAN SCHANZER, THE HILL— In a twist that almost certainly violates U.S. law, American taxpayers are unwittingly contributing to a Palestinian sovereign wealth fund controlled in part by the terrorist group Hamas. The entity in question — crying for a congressional inquiry — is the Palestine Investment Fund (PIF), which the Palestinian Authority created…

Jerusalem mayor slams Gilo construction critics

By The Jerusalem Connection October 4, 2011

BY TANI GOLDSTEIN, YNET— Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat on Tuesday stressed the importance of ongoing construction in the city “as the only solution to the housing crisis.” Last week the Jerusalem Planning and Construction Committee approved the construction of 1,100 in the neighborhood of Gilo. The committee dubbed the decision “a nice gift for Rosh…

Cartoon: Yom Kippur

By The Jerusalem Connection October 4, 2011

Will the U.N. actually reward mass murder?

By The Jerusalem Connection October 4, 2011

BY ALAN DERSHOWITZ, JPOST— The Palestinians are in the process of seeking sovereignty from the United Nations, but in doing so, they are asking for more than what was offered them in any prior negotiation with Israel—including during the talks involving then-president Bill Clinton and then-prime minister Ehud Barak in 2000 and 2001. Rather than…

Christians in Israel Observe the Holy Days

By The Jerusalem Connection October 3, 2011

BY NICOLE JANSEZIAN, TRAVELUJAH— This evening ushers in the first of several consecutive Jewish—or biblical—holidays, celebrated in Israel in the autumn in highly festive fashion, beginning with Rosh HaShanah and ending with the Feast of Tabernacles. During this time, residents of the Jewish country partake in the observations of these holy days, but what about…

What Jews should know about Christians

By The Jerusalem Connection October 3, 2011

By BARRY RUBIN, THE RUBIN REPORT– Most Jews today (or should I merely say many?), even the most secular among them, have a tremendous fear of Christians—especially fervent believers of the type represented today by Evangelicals–and conservatives. There is a material basis for this fear based on past Jewish experience. But it is the year…

US scrambles to keep Palestinian aid flowing

By The Jerusalem Connection October 3, 2011

BY REUTERS— The Obama administration is lobbying Congress to unblock $200 million in aid for the Palestinian Authority that was frozen due to its bid for UN recognition of statehood over US and Israeli objections. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said on Monday the administration was in “intensive” discussions with key lawmakers who had put…

Iranian Christian to be executed for being a 'Zionist'

By The Jerusalem Connection October 3, 2011

BY RYAN JONES, ISRAEL TODAY— The international community was furious when it learned that Iran was going to execute a young man for converting to Christianity and wanting to start a church. So Iran on Sunday altered the charges and said it is instead going to execute Youcef Nadarkhani because, among other things, he loves…

Virtual Dead Sea scrolls get more than a million hits in just one week

By The Jerusalem Connection October 3, 2011

BY NIR HASSON, HAARETZ— More than a million people have visited a new website featuring high-resolution photographs of several Dead Sea Scrolls since the site was launched less than a week ago by the Israel Museum and Google Israel. The website provides a detailed view of five of the most complete scrolls, which were found…

New genetic evidence links Spanish Americans of Southwest to Jews

By The Jerusalem Connection October 3, 2011

BY TALIA BLOCH, JTA— In 1995, Demetrio Valdez, his wife, Olive, and some of their neighbors in Conjehos County, Colo., started a kosher food co-op. “We wanted to harvest our own meat, but we couldn’t get a good price for it, so we decided to do it kosher to make more money,” said Valdez, 64,…

Scripture Reading for the week of October 8, 2011

By The Jerusalem Connection October 3, 2011

Torah: Leviticus 16:1 – 34 & Numbers 29:7- 11 “Shacharit” (Morning) Haftorah: Isaiah 57:14 – 58:14 New Testament: Romans 5:21 – 26 & Hebrews 9:13 – 15 Gospel: John 3:16 – 21 “Ko ahav Elohim” (God so loved …)