B'tayavon: Shavuot mini cheesecakes

*These tiny desserts are wonderful topped with fruit or jelly. This recipe makes 12 mini cheesecakes. Is there anything better than a holiday that requires you to eat cheesecake? Ingredients 2/3 cup graham cracker crumbs 2 tablespoons sugar 2 tablespoons margarine, melted 2 (8 ounce) packages of cream cheese, softened 1/2 cup sugar 3 teaspoons…

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Obama's war on Jerusalem

By Jonathan Tobin, Commentary Magazine The Israeli government is walking a fine line as it tries holding out against the Obama administration’s demand for a building freeze while simultaneously fending off charges that it is not interested in making peace with the Palestinians. The predictable result is confusion. The Netanyahu government’s defiance of the American…

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Responding to the top 10 anti-Israel lies

By Rabbi Marvin Hier, JewishJournal.com It’s no secret to anyone that relations between the United States and Israel reflect a new reality and are not what they once were. The last few months have seen a worldwide frenzy of intimidation and threats directed against Israel that has backed its supporters into a corner. Very few…

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US Targets Israel as Anti-Nuke Conference Begins

By Hillel Fendel, Israelnationalnews.com The United States is working with both Egypt and Russia to rid Israel of its nuclear weapons, as part of a comprehensive plan to neutralize Iran’s nuclear power. Reports of this nature are being reported in various news media. The Guardian (London) reports that the US and Russia have drafted an…

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Get Ready for a Nuclear Iran

By John Bolton, Wall Street Journal Negotiations grind on toward a fourth U.N. Security Council sanctions resolution against Iran’s nuclear weapons program, even as President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrives in New York to address the Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference. Sanctions advocates acknowledge that the Security Council’s ultimate product will do no more than marginally impede Iran’s…

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JINSA Flag & General Officers Ad

JINSA Report #: 976 Editor’s Note: When U.S.-Israel relations hit a rough patch, there are those who quickly blame Israel for America’s difficulties abroad. Israel has outrageously been blamed for endangering American soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq, and erroneously been blamed for preventing the formation of an Arab coalition to work with the US to…

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Does Jerusalem get it?

By Yoram Ettinger, Ynetnews.com Congress has power to produce change in Obama’s Mideast policy The assumption that Israel is facing an imperial and an omnipotent American president, who supposedly benefits from a health reform-driven political tailwind, is refuted by the April 21-22, 2010 Quinnipiac University Polling Institute findings. The Institute is quoted often by the…

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Mossad T-shirts Available

January 19, 2010. Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh, a notorious Hamas leader is found dead in his hotel room in Dubai. The Dubai government reveals that the 18 suspects used fake passports some of which originally belonged to Israeli citizens- but by now the hit team is long gone. Fingers are pointed at the Mossad. Assassination squads, stolen…

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Never Again is Now!

NEVER AGAIN IS NOW is petitioning Congress to take the necessary steps to ensure that the words of the Declaration below are  adopted as the new Foreign Policy of the United States towards Israel.   Rev. Dr. John Lupoli, President of the World Council of Independent Christian Churches, representing 380,000 churches and 44 million congregants…

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Faith Lessons: The Sea of Galilee

by Daniel McCabe The Stilling of the Storm Psalm 89:8-9, “O LORD God of hosts, who is mighty like You, O LORD? Your faithfulness also surrounds you. You rule the raging of the sea; when its waves rise, You still them.” The boat builders, tanners and fishermen that lived along the pebbled shores of a…

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Faith Lessons: Chorazin

by Daniel McCabe Condemnation and Invitation Matthew 11:21, 28, “Woe to you . . . . Come to Me.” From the yellow sands of the Judean wilderness to the verdant hills below Mt. Hermon. From the rocky pastures of Bethlehem to the pebbled shores of Galilee. Jesus knew them all—his hometown of Nazareth and the…

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My Peace Plan: An Israeli Victory

By Daniel Pipes, National Post This month, Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak declared that Israel must withdraw from Palestinian territories. “The world isn’t willing to accept — and we won’t change that in 2010 — the expectation that Israel will rule another people for decades more,” he said. “It’s something that doesn’t exist anywhere else…

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How Hamas tortures Gaza

By Joseph Klein, Frontpagemag.com John Ging, the Director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) Operations in Gaza, briefed correspondents at the United Nations headquarters in New York last week on the humanitarian plight of the people in Gaza. He said that the Palestinian people in…

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Poll: Israelis views on Obama

Israelis oppose freeze, blame Obama for tension, think Obama turning to Arabs at expense of Israel Dr. Aaron Lerner – IMRA Poll carried out by Shvakim Panorama for Israel Television Channel 1 of a representative sample of adult Israelis (apparently includes Israeli Arabs) broadcast on the evening of 23 April as published in Yisrael Hayom…

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