BY JEFF JACOBY, BOSTON GLOBE— THE GOLDSTONE REPORT was a blood libel. Issued in September 2009 by a UN “fact-finding mission” headed by the South African jurist Richard Goldstone, the 450-page document was an indictment of Israel’s conduct during the brief war it launched in Gaza at the end of 2008 to end the intolerable…
DetailsA short film by the David Horowitz Freedom Center that uncovers the lies of “Israel Apartheid Week”
BY DEBKAFILE— After nearly two months of rising tension, Israel and Hamas have taken a step towards a full-blown military confrontation: Before dawn Saturday, April 2, an Israeli air strike killed three senior Hamas Izz al-Din Qassam Brigades gunmen in the Gaza Strip in an operation described by an Israeli army spokesman as pre-empting a…
DetailsBY CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— Richard Goldstone’s repudiation of the eponymous blood libel he authored in 2009 provides a number of lessons about the nature of the political war against the Jewish state and how we must act if we are to defeat it. Learning these lessons is an urgent task as we approach the next…
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BY JONATHAN TOBIN, COMMENTARY MAG— In what must be considered as shocking a turnaround as any we have seen in recent years, Richard Goldstone, the chair of the United Nations Human Rights Commission’s fact-finding commission about the conflict in Gaza, has retracted his claim that Israel deliberately sought to target and kill Palestinian civilians. A…
DetailsMy gracious God, I bless you that you have given me the eye of faith, to see you as Father, to know your name as Yahweh, to experience your love planted in me; For faith is the grace of union by which I spell out my entitlement to you: Faith casts my anchor upwards where…
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 VICTOR SHARPE— Millions, perhaps billions, of the world’s population do not know the meaning of the towering festival of freedom and liberty known as Passover; a festival recognizing an event that has blessed the world for some 3,300 years. The festival begins on April 18th of this year and always on the 15th day…
DetailsBY VICTOR SHARPE— Millions, perhaps billions, of the world’s population do not know the meaning of the towering festival of freedom and liberty known as Passover; a festival recognizing an event that has blessed the world for some 3,300 years. The festival begins on April 18th of this year and always on the 15th day…
DetailsBy MICHAEL ANBAR, PhD, Professor Emeritus at Un. of Buffalo — The Muslim Student Association (MSA) at the University at Buffalo (UB) is sponsoring a talk by Norman Finkelstein, the notorious Jewish-born, anti-Jewish and anti-Israeli Holocaust denier, who was denied a tenured academic appointment at DePaul University in 2007, after having been fired by NYU…
DetailsDear Friends, Praise the Lord, the Spanish translation of the most popular issue of our magazine, The Sephardic Jews, is finally complete, printing and all. Copies are available on our website or at the office – by single copy or multiples. I called one Hispanic Leader in Arizona who networks with other Hispanics and he…
DetailsBY ELAD BENARI, ARUTZ SHEVA— The coming month will mark the ninth anniversary of a deadly 2002 terror attack in the Samaria community of Elon Moreh. The attack occurred when a Hamas terrorist entered the home of the Gavish family, gunning down the parents, Rachel and David, and their son, 25-year-old Avraham, who was home…
DetailsBY ASSOCIATED PRESS— Israel’s vital tourism industry has been surprisingly resilient in the face of regional turmoil that has dried up visits to neighboring Arab countries, tourism officials say. In contrast to Egypt and Jordan, the number of tourists visiting Israel appears to be holding steady, according to tourism experts. “Tour operator bookings indicate a…
DetailsBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS– Jordan’s archaeology chief says he has a solid legal case to press for the return of 70 ancient lead books stolen and smuggled into Israel. Ziad al-Saad says the relics could be the earliest Christian writing in existence. If authenticated, he says they would be the most significant find in Christian…
DetailsBY HERB KEINON, JPOST The current Egyptian leadership – as well as the leading candidates for the country’s leadership – recognize the strategic importance of the peace treaty with Israel, Maj.-Gen. Aviv Kochavi, the head of military intelligence, told the weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday. Kochavi’s rather sanguine assessment of how the future leadership in…
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