by Liat Collins, JPost If life is a learning experience, the year just ending provided its fair share of interesting lessons. One lesson being that life, indeed, is not fair. Like most years, 5770 was not so much a learning curve as a jagged graph. When we were up, we balanced precariously, and when we…
Detailsby Or Schwartz, JPost More than 13,000 settlement housing units in the West Bank are ready for construction once the building moratorium ends on September 26th and at least 2,000 are ready for immediate construction, according to a report by Peace Now released on Sunday. According to the report, 2,066 units in the West Bank…
Detailsby Carol Platt Liebau, Townhall.com As we remember the radical Islamist attacks of September 11, 2001, say a prayer for those who were lost, those who survived them, and all those who have given their lives in the cause of freedom. And even as we recall, the best way we can honor those who died…
Detailsby Associated Press NEW YORK — A crowd in New York City protested an Islamic center proposed near Ground Zero with chants of “USA, USA” on Saturday following a ceremony in remembrance of the 9/11 terror attacks. Some protesters were wearing hats and T-shirts festooned with the Stars and Stripes. Some were carrying signs including…
Detailsby Bret Stephens, WSJ If you’re a reader of a certain age, you might understand the headline. In May 1977, when Menachem Begin was elected Israel’s prime minister, Time magazine set out to describe the man, beginning with the correct pronunciation of his last name: “Rhymes with Fagin,” the editors explained, invoking the character from…
DetailsSukkot for kidsCheck out the All New and just for Kids Sukkot learning page. This is a great resource to learn about the 40 years of wandering in the desert, the Clouds of Glory, and building the Tabernacle. Get coloring pages, a template for building a model Tabernacle, decorating ideas for your own Sukkah, recipes,…
Detailsby Debkafile Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s remarks Sunday, Sept. 5, that an Israeli-Palestinian peace would not come this year or even in the next generation, infuriated some political circles in Jerusalem. The opposition accused him of breaking ranks with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu ahead of the second round of his direct talks with Palestinian Authority…
Detailsby David Isaac, ShmuelKatz.com In her recent column in The Jerusalem Post, “The New Netanyahu?”, Caroline Glick writes, “The most distressing aspect of Netanyahu’s enthusiastic participation in a process the Israeli public rationally opposes is that it is him doing it.” Caroline Glick, today’s most insightful columnist on the subject of Israel, has been uncharacteristically slow…
Detailsby Joseph Puder, FrontPageMag.com The anti-mosque rally at Ground Zero held in New York City on Sunday, August 22 brought over 12,000 Americans to lower Manhattan. They gathered to express their opposition to the building of a mosque next to the site where the World Trade Center towers once stood. To the thousands of men…
Detailsby Caroline Glick, Jerusalem Post On August 28, Fox News commentator Glenn Beck confounded his colleagues in the media when he brought hundreds of thousands of Americans to the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, DC for a rally he called “Restoring Honor.” While former Alaska governor Sarah Palin was the keynote speaker,…
Detailsby Israel Today Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas clarified for his people on Monday that he intends to make not even one concession or compromise in direct peace negotiations with Israel, and that for a final status peace to be achieved, Israel will have to fully meet all Arab demands and abandon its own conditions. First…
Detailsby AFP Palestinian militants fired a mortar round from the Gaza Strip on Wednesday narrowly missing a kindergarten in a kibbutz in southern Israel, the military said, as Jews prepared to mark their New Year. There were no casualties or damage from the mortar fire against the collective settlement several kilometres (a few miles) from…
Detailsby Binyamin Elon We are ending the Hebrew year of 5770 with troubling news on the diplomatic front. Behind the smiles and the ‘optimism’ that were spread around Washington, DC last week, lies the futile and ever-so-dangerous proposal of establishing a palestinian state – a move that will not only not bring us closer to…
Detailsby Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu, Arutz 7 Iran continues to snub the United Nations and has produced 2.8 tons of enriched uranium, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported Monday. Iran previously enriched uranium to a five percent grade, but increased the purification level to nearly 20 percent last February. U.S. President Obama has claimed that…
Detailsby Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe TALIA AND YITZHAK AMES met as students at Moscow University, as they waited in line one day to register for their classes. They got married in 1985, and had two children by the time they emigrated to Israel in 1991. Four more children followed in the next 19 years, and…
Detailsby Hilary Leila Krieger Israel is offering the Palestinians gestures in place of extending the settlement moratorium in hopes of keeping them in peace negotiations once the freeze expires, Israel’s top US envoy said Friday. Both Israelis and Palestinians are anxious to avoid being blamed for sabotaging direct talks which started just Thursday. Palestinian Authority…
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