By Gil Hoffman, Jerusalem Post US President Barack Obama’s chief of staff Rahm Emanuel announced with great fanfare at the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America in Washington last year that he would come to Israel on America’s Memorial Day Weekend at the end of May to celebrate the bar mitzvas…
DetailsBy Israel Today Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas indicated in his meeting with US envoy George Mitchell that he has a problem with Israel behaving like a democracy when it comes to the land-for-peace process. Details of the meeting provided over the weekend to Ha’aretz revealed that Abbas pressed Mitchell to in turn press Israel to…
DetailsThis is an archival print by Pat Mercer Hutchens, one of a series being offered through TJCI to remember and honor those who perished in the Holocaust. Pat is particularly zooming in on the women and the children. Click here to find the print available in our online store. From the artist: “These Jewish women…
Detailsby Victor Sharpe I once wrote an earlier article, which was titled: Lies, damned lies, and Palestinian propaganda in descending order. That title paraphrased British Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli’s, 19th century aphorism: Lies, damned lies, and statistics. Few have mastered the art of dissimilitude more than long time Palestinian Arab spokesman, Saeb Erakat, who continues…
DetailsBy Isi Leibler, Jerusalem Post US proclamations of support for Israel are welcome, but sadly there’s no proof of any change in policy toward the Jewish state. We are currently being subjected to a chorus of proclamations by government spokesmen, American Jewish leaders and Obama administration representatives reassuring us that Israeli-US relations are back on…
DetailsBy israel Today John Brennan, assistant to US President Barack Obama for homeland security and counterterrorism, told a Washington conference on Tuesday that Lebanese terrorist militia Hizballah has evolved significantly over the years, and cannot today be defined as a purely hostile and evil entity. Reuters quoted Brennan as telling conference participants that Hizballah is…
DetailsShavuot for Kids: Shavuot – also known as the Feast of Weeks or Pentecost – is a Jewish holiday celebrating the giving of the Ten Commandments and the Torah (the first five books of the Bible). How to Receive God’s Blessing: A benediction is “the invocation of blessing, especially at the end of a worship…
DetailsBy Dore Gold – www.dore-gold.com In rejecting, the proposal for a Palestinian state with temporary borders, that Haaretz reported last Friday, Abu Mazen insisted that the only basis for any future political arrangements with Israel is “the 1967 borders”. He is not the only one today talking about the 1967 lines. President Carter’s, national security…
DetailsBy Ralph Peters, NY Post “It’s those damned Jews.” That’s the muffled message I hear when, pretending to represent our national interest, voices call for the abandonment of Israel. We’ve heard it from agenda-driven scholars who write that our alliance with Israel is responsible for our problems in the Middle East. More worrisome still, I’ve…
DetailsBy Palestinian Media Watch During this week’s PA TV children’s program Katakit (“Chicks”) the children in the studio told of their visits to places in Israel – Jaffa, Haifa and the Sea of Galilee. However, following the common PA teaching, Israel’s existence was not mentioned and the PA TV host included those places as all…
DetailsBy Herb Keinon, Jerusalem Post The stated goal of the nascent diplomatic process should be a historic reconciliation between Jews and Arabs, and not just a two-state solution, Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon said Sunday, on the eve of US Middle East envoy George Mitchell’s next visit to mediate indirect talks. Ayalon, speaking to…
DetailsBy Barry Rubin, JPost.com Russia’s bid for renewed power in the Mideast as a rival to the US is one more thing that US policy is unprepared to cope with, nor even recognize. If America’s Middle East position collapses in the forest will anyone hear it? The answer is either ‘no,’ or ‘just barely.’ As…
DetailsBy Ron Kampeas, JTA.org If you tell the rabbis, they will spread the word. That was the thinking behind two intimate White House meetings — the second of which took place on May 13 — with a carefully selected slate of 15 rabbis from across the country and representing the Orthodox, Reform and Conservative streams.…
DetailsBy The Israel Project Modern Israel is the renewal of the Jewish State in the Land of Israel, the birthplace of the Jewish people. Archaeological evidence shows that the Jewish people began developing its distinctive religion and culture some 4,000 years ago in Israel. For millennia, the Jewish people have had an unbroken physical presence—whether…
DetailsBy Caroline Glick, Jerusalem Post Forty-three years after the Jewish people liberated Jerusalem, our capital has never been under greater assault. But it has also never been more energetically defended by an indignant Jewish people – in Israel and throughout the world. Last week, Makor Rishon reported that US diplomats have been “showing interest” in…
Details“Proximity” talks are the answer. So asserts President Obama’s Middle East Envoy dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, former Senator George Mitchell. Mitchell said “there is no such thing as a conflict that can’t be ended.” Obviously, this is the mindset as the “Proximity” talks begin between Israel and the Palestinians. However, the whole notion of “Proximity”…
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