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More clashes erupt in Egypt

BY AP– Several hundred Christians pelted police with rocks outside a Cairo hospital Monday in fresh clashes the day after 24 people died in riots that grew out of a Christian protest against a church attack. Sunday’s sectarian violence was the worst in Egypt since the uprising that ousted Hosni Mubarak in February. Egyptian Prime…

Dry Bones: Succot

In the Sukkah

BY YAEL ZOLDEN, AISH— When the air cooled and the leaves turned, we moved into our sukkah. It was a tiny canvas hut, six feet square with nothing to recommend it. No window, no running water, no heater, no proper door to keep the bugs away. It was a terrible inconvenience really, running back and…

Isolation? What isolation?

BY DANNY AYALON— During the past few months, Israel’s purported growing isolation has been the subject of much discussion. It is far from the truth, and it is ironic that this debate has taken place during an effective Israeli challenge to the long-standing paradigm of the Palestinians using the United Nations as a “rubber stamp”…

Occupy Wall Street activist blames 'the Jews'

BY RYAN JONES, ISRAEL TODAY— It was only a matter of time before activists involved in the “Occupy Wall Street” economic demonstrations began to blame “the Jews” for America’s financial woes. A YouTube video making the rounds over the weekend showed one such activist holding up a sign that read “Hitler’s Bankers – Wall St”…

Wish I'd said that

“The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.” —-Former Prime Minister Golda Meir

Israel stops and reflects

BY EMET REPORT— The highest of the High Holidays – Yom Kippur – is to begin on Friday  night, and Jews around the world are completing their last preparations  for the solemn day that ends the Ten Days of Penitence. Yom  Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is a Divinely-designated day that the  Torah explains “will…

'Chrislam': Straight from the pits of hell

BY EARL COX, JPOST— Maybe we should not be too surprised. Maybe we should have seen it coming. Incredible as it seems, it is now a shocking reality. What people would have thought impossible not so long ago is now coming to pass.  While not actually new on the scene, it is relatively new to…

Yom Kippur Guide for the Perplexed

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,…

The "P" Word

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.…