You Can't be Pro-Obama and Pro-Israel

By NEIL SNYDER, The American Thinker — Since the day he took office, President Obama has been anti-Israel. Barack Obama has failed to achieve the bipartisan results that he promised to seek while running for office. In fact, he has created a chasm between the political left and right in this country that is wider…

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B'tayavon: Sweet potato latkes

*Sweet glorious Hanukkah. Who wouldn’t love a holiday that requires you to eat fried food? The normally forbidden donut or French fry is all the sudden–for eight glorious days–the food of the righteous. I can assure you that I remember the Hanukkah miracle better when I really really concentrate on that first bite into a…

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Rasberry squares

Ingredients 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour 1 ¼ cups quick cooking oats 1/3 cup sugar 1/3 cup light brown sugar ¼ teaspoon baking soda ¼ teaspoon salt ½ cup chopped pecans 1 and ½ sticks unsalted butter, softened 1 cup rasberry preserves Directions 1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.  Grease a 9 inch square…

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Hanukkah for Kids

What is Hanukkah? Hanukkah is the eight day Jewish holiday known as the “festival of lights” or “feast of dedication.”  Each year the holiday falls sometime between late November and the end of December.  In 2011, Hanukkah will last from December 20th to the 28th. Hanukkah is the celebration of a miracle that happened over 2,100…

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B'tayavon: Roasted moroccan stew

*Moroccans are the largest group of immigrants in Israel from an Arab country. Between the years 1962 and 1964, 80,000 Jews left Morocco to make Aliya in Israel. Many of these immigrants moved to the Negev, giving Beer Sheva and other Negev areas a distinctive Moroccan finesse. During our years living in Beer Sheva, I…

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American tax dollars won't change radical Islam

BY EARL COX— With all the sudden uprisings sweeping like a firestorm across the Muslim countries in the Middle East, a significant question comes to mind. Why is the United States government continuing to send hard-earned American tax dollars to Arab and Muslim countries that have an anti-American, anti-Christian and anti-Semitic agenda? Each year, millions…

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What the storming of the British embassy in Tehran tells us

BY MICHAEL RUBIN, FOX NEWS— Hardline Iranian students stormed the British embassy in Tehran this morning, smashing windows and burning the British flag. The students, protesting the latest British sanctions imposed on the Islamic Republic as a result of its nuclear defiance, demanded Tehran break relations with London. Rather than protect the embassy, Iranian security…

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Awash in rumors of war

BY STAN GOODENOUGH— ‘Mysterious explosion rocks Iranian city of Isfahan’ – The Jerusalem Post, November 28, 2011, 19:30 For weeks Israelis have been greeted – almost every day – with headlines sounding the ticking clock that is measuring the minutes toward war. Other things – for us, relative trivia, but indicative of growing global chaos…

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Peres holds secret meeting with Jordan's king

BY ELIOR LEVY, YNETNEWS— President Shimon Peres held a secret visit to Jordan and meeting on Monday, the Jordanian official news agency report. The President’s Residence has yet to comment on the matter. According to the report, Peres and Abdullah discussed the resumption of the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians. The king apparently…

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Iranian FM says Israel would be attacked by 150,000 missiles

BY YNET— Iranian Defense Minister General Ahmad Vahidi said Israel would be attacked with 150,000 missiles if it launches any military action against the Islamic Republic, the Iran Independent News Service reported Sunday. Speaking before 50,000 army volunteers in Bushehr, the minister said “Iran is not Iraq or Afghanistan, if the Americans make the mistake…

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Saboteurs blow up Egypt gas pipeline to Israel in Sinai

BY REUTERS— Saboteurs blew up Egypt’s gas pipeline to Jordan and Israel on Monday, witnesses and security sources said, a few hours before the country holds its first free election since president Hosni Mubarak was toppled in February. The explosion was set off west of El-Arish in Sinai, witnesses said. There was a second consecutive…

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An ever darkening world

BY VICTOR SHARPE— In the first volume of my trilogy, Politicide: The attempted murder of the Jewish state, I ended the conclusion page as follows: “I for one realize that Islam will never accept a non-Islamic state in lands once conquered in the name of Allah … Therefore I will no longer end my articles…

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