Yom Yerushalayim

BY STAN GOODENOUGH— Israel is today celebrating Yom Yerushalayim – Jerusalem Day – the return to Jewish sovereignty of the 3000-year plus capital of the Jewish people.* Since Independence Day on May 9, Jerusalem has been literally swarming with Jews from around the country and around the world. They have been hiking its streets, descending…

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Holy Travel newsletter: Israel opera, Return to Zion

Spot Report: Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem As Israel marks the miraculous prophesied reunification of Jerusalem under Jewish sovereignty, Christians should remember the biblical command to pray for the city’s peace and contentment. Shavuot for Kids Shavuot-also known as the Feast of Weeks or Pentecost-is a Jewish holiday celebrating the giving of the Ten…

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Jerusalem Day T-shirt available

Today is Yom Yerushalayim(Jerusalem Day), commemorating the reunification of Jerusalem in 1967.  Jerusalem is more than the eternal capital of Israel: it is THE heart and soul of the Jewish people. Now the world wants appeasement by dividing the city. Should Israel agree? Wear your support for Israel’s eternal capital! For a suggested donation of…

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Why — and whose — Jerusalem?

BY RABBI DOV FISCHER, JWREVIEW— Several covens of Jew-haters, ranging from the Middle East to the more troubled and confused of American campuses like those at the University of California at Irvine (UCI), recently marked their “Nakba Day” to protest that a Jewish country ever was created in the Middle East. Today, Jerusalem Day, is…

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Wish I'd Said That

“In Judea and Samaria, the Jewish people are not foreign occupiers. We are not the British in India. We are not the Belgians in the Congo.  This is the land of our forefathers, the Land of Israel, to which Abraham brought the idea of one God, where David set out to confront Goliath, and where…

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Disabled Travel in Israel

BY NICOLE JANSEZIAN, TRAVELUJAH— Israel’s cobblestone streets, landmark churches, Roman amphitheaters and ancient cisterns may be enticing to many tourists, but can be daunting to someone in a wheelchair. This prospect, however, did not dissuade Rick Huntress and a group of 17 – five of whom were in wheelchairs – from visiting the Holy Land.…

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Where Obama is leading Israel

BY CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— In the aftermath of US President Barack Obama’s May 19 speech on the Middle East, his supporters argued that the policy toward Israel and the Palestinians that Obama outlined in that speech was not anti-Israel. As they presented it, Obama’s assertion that peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians must be…

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Sharansky: Don't wait to fight terror

BY BOAZ FYLER, YNETNEWS— The war on terror must not be delayed by “even one day,” Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky said Monday at a ceremony marking 10 years to the Dolphinarium discotheque bombing. The Tel Aviv terror attack claimed the lives of 21 people, almost all of them teenagers, after a suicide bomber detonated…

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In prayer, Jews face Jerusalem but Muslims face Mecca

BY VICTOR SHARPE, CANADA FREE PRESS— Jerusalem Unification Day has again been celebrated in Israel and throughout the world with the exception of that 7th century alternate universe: the Muslim world. It marks 44 years since the amazing and miraculous event took place when the Jewish people’s 3,000 year old capital city was restored to…

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PM: We can't stop Palestinian statehood declaration in UN

BY JPOST— Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Monday said that there is no way to stop the United Nations General Assembly from recognizing Palestinian statehood in September. In the General Assembly, he remarked, “it would be possible to get a resolution saying the world is flat,” speaking at a Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee…

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Where fear and blindness dominate

BY BARRY RUBIN— In September, the leaves will start falling in the West. And so will the policies toward the Middle East. That month, Egypt will likely elect a radical and largely Islamist parliament. That parliament will then probably write a radical and largely Islamist constitution. The new government will follow a radical and at…

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Police preparing for wide-scale rioting in September

BY YAAKOV LAPIN, JPOST— The Israel Police are in the midst of preparing for the possibility of wide-scale rioting this September, when Palestinians are expected to unilaterally declare statehood, newly appointed police commissioner Insp.-Gen. Yochanan Danino said in a speech before the Israel Bar Association in Eilat on Sunday. “The Israel Police is currently preparing for…

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Much ado about Bibi and Barack

BY JEFF JACOBY, BOSTON GLOBE— WHEN ALL WAS SAID AND DONE, much more was said than done during Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s high-profile visit to Washington. But once all the words were spoken, what was left behind? For the better part of a week, Netanyahu and President Barack Obama engaged in a fraught pas…

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