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…
DetailsBY 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 –…
DetailsBY 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…
DetailsIngredients 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)…
DetailsIngredients 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,…
DetailsBY 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…
DetailsBY 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…
DetailsBY 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…
DetailsSponsored 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…
DetailsIngredients 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…
DetailsIngredients 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)…
DetailsBY 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.…
DetailsBY ERIC BARGER, TAKE A STAND— Chrislam, which purports to join Islam and Christianity into one harmonious, synthesized religion, is fast becoming a rallying point in some American church circles. Under the leadership of something called “Faith Shared,” two organizations, Interfaith Alliance and Human Rights First, spearheaded an event loosely called “Chrislam Sunday” on June…
DetailsThink on this: “Then the king called together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. He went up to the temple of the LORD with the people of Judah, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the priests and the prophets—all the people from the least to the greatest. He read in their hearing all the words of…
DetailsBY NIV ELIS, JPOST— US President Barack Obama courted Jewish voters and defended his record on Israel in a fiery keynote address to the Union for Reform Judaism outside Washington, DC on Friday. “No US administration has done more in support of Israel’s security than ours. None. Don’t let anybody tell you otherwise. It is…
DetailsBY CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— On Monday night, hooligans identified with the national religious camp staged three unlawful, and in at least one case violent, protests against the IDF. First, several dozen people surrounded by hundreds of reporters pretended to set up a new settlement along the border with Jordan. Their aim was to protest Jordan’s…
DetailsBY RON JAGER– ARUTZ 7— “Uncle” Tom Friedman has done it again in the New York Times; he has proven that you can be a useful idiot and a Jewish anti-Semite all in one. Evidently, the means justify the ends, Friedman, who has always used his Jewish identity to infer that he is “one of…
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