BY JPOST— Senior Fatah Central Committee member Nabil Shaath on Tuesday estimated that the Palestinian Authority will be able to gain recognition for a Palestinian state from two-thirds of United Nations member states before September 2011. PA President Mahmoud Abbas was expected to travel to France on Wednesday to meet with French President Nicolas Sarkozy…
DetailsBY YAAKOV LAPPIN, JPOST— The Gaza Strip is not suffering from a humanitarian crisis, the deputy head of the Red Cross in Gaza said this week. Mathilde Redmatn, who had been assigned to Congo and Colombia in the past, said that the “fabric of life” in the region was problematic. “There are two peoples, one…
DetailsBY ISRAEL TODAY— The US Senate on Tuesday formally and unanimously passed a resolution demanding that the UN Human Rights Council rescind the Goldstone Report, which falsely accused Israel of committing war crimes in its 2009 invasion of the Gaza Strip. Israel launched the month-long incursion in order to curb terrorist rocket fire on southern…
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DetailsBY DOROTHY BERMAN , JPOST In early November 1947, Dorothy (Devora) Berman of Glasgow, aged 20, set sail for Palestine to participate in the “Machon LeMadrichei Chul” (Institute for Diaspora Youth Leadership) training program of the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem. The program was held in conjunction with the Jewish National Fund. This was one of the…
DetailsBY AVIGAIL SHARER, AISH— Egypt: land of the sphinx, the pyramids, the Nile, and – until their sudden expulsion – the home of my mother-in-law and her family. In the early 20th century, 175,000 Jews lived in Egypt; most had been there for generations, serving as lawyers, doctors, and businessman. They lived in affluence undreamed…
DetailsBY MICHAEL ANBAR— Intimidation and demoralization of an enemy before a deadly assault has been a war tactic from the dawn of history and before. It also exists in the animal kingdom. Successful intimidation eventually ends with a death blow. The attack on the USS Cole, the bombing of US embassies in Africa, and the…
DetailsBY TZVI BEN GEDALYAHU, ARUTZ 7— The first and seventh days of Passover are marked as Sabbath-like holy days (Yom Tov) in which work is forbidden. Jews outside of Israel, and those visiting Israel only for the holiday, observe an additional day in both the beginning and end of Pesach, which lasts eight days for them.…
DetailsBy PAT HUTCHENS, A rework of Imitation of Messiah by Thomas A. Kempis— God speaks: Keep this in mind. Love of self is more harmful than love for anything else in the world. To the degree you center your love on self, to that degree you are hindered and everything cleaves to you. Love for…
DetailsBY TZVI BEN GEDALYAHU, ARUTZ 7— Passover (Pesach) will take place this year between sunset on Monday, 18 April, and sunset on Monday, 25 April. The first and seventh days are marked as Sabbath-like holy days (Yom Tov) in which work is forbidden. Jews outside of Israel, and those visiting Israel only for the holiday,…
DetailsBY NICOLE JANSEZIAN, TRAVELUJAH— Why is this Passover night different from all the rest? Mainly because more and more Christians, both in Israel and overseas, will be partaking in some observance of Passover, a phenomenon that is catching on among many Christians, evangelical and otherwise. Erev Pesach (Passover Eve) begins at sunset on Monday night…
DetailsBY RABBI SHRAGA SIMMONS, AISH— Passover (Pesach in Hebrew) is known as the “holiday of freedom,” commemorating the Jewish Exodus from Egypt following 210 years of slavery. Passover is regarded as the “birth” of the Jewish nation, and its lessons of struggle and identity continue to form the basis of Jewish consciousness 3,300 years after…
DetailsBY TOVAH LAZAROFF AND GREER FAY CASHMAN, JPOST— Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday appointed David Meidan to replace Hagai Hadas in efforts to broker a deal with Hamas and gain the release of captive soldier Gilad Schalit, who has been held in Gaza for almost five years. Netanyahu informed Schalit’s parents, Noam and Aviva,…
DetailsBY ISRAEL TODAY— The Jewish online media scene is abuzz with a story published by Israel’s Ynet news portal concerning a group of 1,000 American Christians who want to join the Israeli army and build a new settlement in Samaria. According to the article, the group has signed a document stating its intentions, and its…
DetailsBY THE ISRAEL PROJECT— Passover begins this year on the evening of April 18 and lasts eight days outside of Israel, and seven days in Israel. Easter falls on April 24 in both Western and Orthodox Christianity, with Good Friday occurring two days earlier. The week encompassing those days, which also includes Palm Sunday –…
DetailsBY CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— Today’s Turkey is a cautionary tale for the West. But Western leaders are loath to consider its lessons. Ever since Turkey’s Islamist Justice and Peace AKP party under Recip Tayip Erdogan won the November 2002 elections, Western officials have upheld the AKP, Erdogan and his colleagues as proof that political Islam…
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