ADL: Fighting Yesterday’s Battles

By CHARLES JACOBS, Boston Jewish Advocate — The ADL is now caught flatfooted by its own paralysis. Republicans are all over national TV, arguing passionately over which (and whose) approaches – given the sorry state of American society – might best set things right. They know Democrats will use the best barbs they throw at…

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Moshe Dayan’s colossal blunder

By GIULIO MEOTTI, YNET — The World should not allow Arab effort to deny Jewish connection to Jerusalem. It’s the site where humanity received the gift of one God. It’s where God’s “shechina”, or presence, dwelt. Even the secular imagination, Jewish or not, has been shaped by the “Holy of Holies,” the Temple Mount in…

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Mythomaniacs and the Arab-Israel Conflict

BY RICHARD BOOKER— An excited crowd of 5,000 Christian Zionists attending the Feast of Tabernacles in Jerusalem leaped to their feet with thunderous applause when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked them to join Israel in their historic struggle to present the true story of Israel and the Arab world. Israel has certainly been losing the…

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Constraining Iran in the Straight

BY ILAN BERMAN, INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE— The past two weeks have seen a dramatic escalation in Iran’s war of words with the West. Last Wednesday, Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi told Iran’s official news agency, IRNA, that new economic pressure currently being contemplated by the West would come at a steep cost. According to Rahimi,…

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Why US won't be center stage in new Israeli-Arab talks

BY HOWARD LAFRANCHI, CSMONITOR The United States won’t take its usual center-stage position when Israeli and Palestinian negotiators meet today for their first direct talks in more than a year. The talks, set for Amman, Jordan, are designed to explore the potential for a return to formal direct peace negotiations, which collapsed in October 2010.…

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Israel, Palestinian envoys to hold talks in Jordan on Tuesday

BY REUTERS— Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s personal emissary Yitzhak Molcho and chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat will meet in Amman on Tuesday in a bid to restart stalled Middle East peace negotiations. The meeting will be hosted by Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh. Judeh and representatives of the Middle East Quartet – the United States,…

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Hanukkah for Dhimmis

BY BILL LEVINSON— Hanukkah is often called “the Jewish Christmas” because it takes place at about the same time of year. There is in fact a very strong connection between the two holidays; had it not been for the events that Hanukkah commemorates, there would be no Christmas. Hanukkah is about standing up to those…

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The World Council of Churches’ Anti-Israel Policies

By DR. MANFRED GERSTENFELD — ARUTZ7– Christian Media analyst Dexter Van Zile: Only Israel is condemned, while Copts are killed in Egypt, Arab Christians persecuted in Muslim countries. WCC has two bodies working to end the “occupation”. “The World Council of Churches, an umbrella organization for 349 Protestant and Orthodox churches founded in 1948, has…

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Fatah Exposes Plan to Kill Ariel Sharon

BY ELAD BENARI, ARUTZ 7— Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement exposed on Sunday a video which shows the former head of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s military wing, Khalil al-Wazir (who was known as “Abu Jihad”), plotting to kill Ariel Sharon who then served as a Cabinet minister, Channel 2 News reported. According to…

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B'tayavon: Lamb with dried fruit

*Tu B’Shvat (“New Year of the trees”) is one of the minor Jewish holidays. This winter holiday marks when to calculate the agricultural cycle for the purpose of biblical tithes. Each year on Tu B’shvat, Israelis eat a feast of dried fruits in keeping with the “New Year” holiday tradition and celebrating the seasonality of…

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Israel better off without American aid?

BY RYAN JONES, ISRAEL TODAY— As expected, the Israeli-Arab conflict has been a major foreign policy campaign topic in the run-up to the 2012 US presidential election. And of the many Republican candidates vying for the chance to challenge President Barack Obama at the polls, Representative Ron Paul (R-TX) is widely viewed as by far…

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Islam's war on Christmas

BY MARK TAPSON, FRONTPAGEMAG— ‘Twas the night before Christmas and all through Nigeria, not a creature was stirring except for the members of the militant Islamic sect Boko Haram, preparing to bomb Christian churches across the country and setting on fire the cars of worshippers inside a church just outside of Damaturu, the capital of…

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Moving closer to Gaza war

BY RON GILRAN, YNET— Tensions in southern Israel remain high after the Air Force targeted an Islamic Jihad cell Friday as it prepared to fire a rocket into Israel, the latest incident in a string of tit-for-tat attacks in recent days. So far, the Islamic Jihad’s response has been relatively mild. In previous instances, the…

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Lamb with dried fruit

*Tu B’Shvat (“New Year of the trees”) is one of the minor Jewish holidays.  This winter holiday marks when to calculate the agricultural cycle for the purpose of biblical tithes.  Each year on Tu B’shvat, Israelis eat a feast of dried fruits in keeping with the “New Year” holiday tradition and celebrating the seasonality of the fruit tree. This recipe would make…

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B'tayavon: Baklava

Ingredients 24 sheets phyllo dough 1 cup butter, melted for syrup 2 cups sugar 1 cup honey 1 and 1/2 cups water 2 tablespoons lemon juice 5 whole cloves for filling 4 cups pistachio, finely chopped 1/4 cup sugar 1 and 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves Directions 1)Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease…

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