*Tu Bishvat is a Jewish minor holiday, usually falling around January. I always liked when this holiday came around because my classmates brought dried fruits and nuts to class. Finally a holiday with a healthy theme! I always gained a couple pounds during Hannukah when you’re supposed to eat donuts. Consider this recipe kosher for Tu Bishvat. Ingredients 1 chicken (3-4 lbs),…
DetailsIngredients 1/4 cup onion, minced 1 red bell pepper, thinly sliced 3 tablespoons butter or margarine 1 and 1/2 teaspoon curry powder 3 tablespoons flour 3/4 teaspoon salt 4 tablespoons sugar 1/8 teaspoon ground ginger 1 cup vegetable broth 1 cup milk 1/2 teaspoon lemon juice 1 can chickpeas, rinsed and drained Directions 1) Melt butter in a…
Details*You’ll just have to trust me that Jerusalem artichokes taste much better than they look. Ingredients 2 medium onions, chopped 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 clove garlic, minced 1 and 1/2 pounds Jerusalem Artichokes, scrubbed and quartered 4 cups chicken broth juice of 1/2 lemon salt, pepper to taste Directions 1) Slowly saute onion in…
DetailsIngredients 6 cups water 2 16 oz cans stewed, chopped tomatoes 1 lb washed lentils 2 bay leaves 1 tbsp salt Pepper to taste 1 cup carrots, chopped 1 medium onion, chopped 1 cup celery, chopped 2 garlic cloves, minced Directions 1) In a large saucepan, combine lentils, water, tomatoes, bay leaves, salt and pepper.…
DetailsBy the Emet Report The IDF announced on Sunday that the number of young Bedouin Arab men joining the Israeli military has increased by almost 200 percent over the past year. The news is encouraging for Israel, which has watched with growing unease the increased radicalization of Bedouin youth, particularly in the Negev where several…
Detailsby Jonathan Schanzer, National Post Earlier this year, the government of Canada announced it would discontinue its long-standing financial contributions to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and redirect those funds to strengthen the Palestinian Authority. It made the move in recognition of a difficult reality: UNRWA has perpetuated the Palestinian refugee problem,…
DetailsBy Caroline Glick, Jerusalem Post Courtesy of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on Thursday Israel will again be the target of a jihadist-leftist propaganda assault. A flotilla of nine ships which set sail for Gaza from Cyprus earlier this week is scheduled to arrive at our doorstep. The expressed aim of the flotilla’s organizers…
Detailsby Mark Tooley, IRD.org Leftist church prelates in the United States continue to rally on behalf of the Kairos Palestinian Document of 2009. The document was crafted by Palestinian Christians bemoaning the Nakba (“catastrophe”) of Israel’s founding and condemning the West for not recognizing Hamas. At the same time, the document calls Israel’s so-called occupation…
DetailsBy Mort Zuckerman, U.S. News and World Report America’s peace broker in the Middle East, George Mitchell, has a hot summer ahead. He will shuttle the few miles between the offices of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. He’s already begun what looks to be a long, niggling process of shuttle…
DetailsBy Charles Krauthammer, Townhall It is perfectly obvious that Iran’s latest uranium maneuver, brokered by Brazil and Turkey, is a ruse. Iran retains more than enough enriched uranium to make a bomb. And it continues enriching at an accelerated pace and to a greater purity (20 percent). Which is why the French foreign ministry immediately…
Detailsby Ryan Mauro, Frontpagemag.com Both Turkey and Brazil have grown much closer to Iran in recent years and have voiced their opposition to further sanctions. So it is not surprising that they have now come to the Islamic Republic’s rescue, handing it a lifeline on its nuclear program just as the Obama administration, after a…
DetailsBy 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…
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