by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik An Arab refugee in Lebanon described in an interview on Palestinian Authority TV how he and other Arabs left for Lebanon from Israel during the 1948 war, after Arab leaders said their absence would be temporary: “They said: ‘A week, two weeks, approximately, and you’ll return to Palestine,’”…
Detailsby Ilan Berman and Robert C. McFarlane Los Angeles Times What can the Obama administration do about Iran’s drive to develop nuclear weapons? The president’s informal year-end deadline for a diplomatic resolution to the nuclear impasse with Iran has come and gone. Iran recently announced that it plans to build 10 nuclear fuel plants and…
DetailsBy Caroline Glick, Jerusalem Post US President Barack Obama is an inept, incompetent leader. More than his failure to pass his domestic agenda on health care and global warming despite his Democratic Party’s control over both houses of Congress, Iran’s announcement on Thursday that it is a nuclear power and has the capacity to produce…
DetailsBy Barry Rubin Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has issued a nominally routine communiqué after her meeting with Tony Blair, former prime minister of Great Britain and now messenger of the Quartet on matters Israel-Palestinian. Does this two-paragraph document of February 11, 2010, indicate the new direction of U.S. policy on Israel-Palestinian/Arab-Israeli conflict issues? First…
DetailsBy Ilan Evyatar, Jerusalem Post She’s 178 cm. with red hair and blue eyes, a former supermodel with a figure to die for and the owner, founder and CEO of a $1.4 billion lifestyle business: Kathy Ireland might just be Israel’s perfect public diplomacy ambassador. “I love Israel, it’s very close to my heart,” says…
DetailsBy Herb Geduld Throughout history, Jews have had great friends and mortal enemies as rulers in the countries in which they lived. Perhaps no American president has been a greater friend of the Jewish people than Abraham Lincoln, whose birthday we celebrate today. Lincoln was the first American president to become officially involved in questions…
DetailsBy PAT HUTCHENS, A rework of Imitation of Messiah by Thomas A. Kempis— Open not your heart to everyone, but keep your inmost thoughts only for wise people who fear God. Young people need time and strangers are a risk. Do not flatter the rich nor set out to make friends with people in high…
DetailsBy PAT HUTCHENS, A rework of Imitation of Messiah by Thomas A. Kempis— Vain and useless is the life of a person who puts his trust and confidence in people or things. Only the Creator deserves trust. Do not be ashamed to serve others out of your love for God and his Messiah Jesus. And…
DetailsO my Father, I hang on you; I see, believe, live, when your will, not mine, is done; I can plead nothing in myself in regard of any worthiness and grace, in regard of your providence and promises, but only your good pleasure. If your mercy makes me poor and vile, blessed are you! Prayers…
DetailsBy PAT HUTCHENS, A rework of Imitation of Messiah by Thomas A. Kempis— Vain and useless is the life of a person who puts his trust and confidence in people or things. Only the Creator deserves trust. Do not be ashamed to serve others out of your love for God and his Messiah Jesus. And…
DetailsBy Victor Sharpe From the earliest Biblical days the boundaries of the ancestral Jewish homeland expanded and shrank time and time again. But even during periods when the homeland was under alien occupation, the Jews managed to sustain, in whatever numbers they could, a physical presence. For Jews in the Diaspora the land remained forever…
Detailsby WorldNetDaily.com When scientists revealed in 2008 that an analysis of rings on stalagmite from a cave near Jerusalem showed the climate of the region got drier shortly after the Roman dispersion of the Jews in A.D. 70, it was no surprise to Rabbi Menachem Kohen of Brooklyn. In his book, “Prophecies for the Era…
DetailsExodus 21:1-24:18 P. Mishpatim The juxtaposition of this reading portion, dealing primarily with civil and tort law with the Ten Commandments and the laws of the Altar provide a startling insight into Judaism. To God, there is no realm of “religion” in the colloquial sense of the word. Most people think of the religion as…
DetailsBy David Parsons, www.ICEJUSA.org Israel marked the 62nd anniversary of the United Nations vote to accept the Partition Plan for Mandate Palestine on 29 November 1947. This decision paved the way for the declaration of an independent Jewish State some six months later. In marking this historic occasion, it is proper to also recall some…
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