“Without faith, there’s no enthusiasm, and without enthusiasm there is no transcendence. The soul withers and one’s vision narrows. Scholarship finds itself mired in trivia and the great goal is forgotten.” Menahem Zulay, Scholar of Jewish poetry, 1938
By HERB KEINON, JPOST— No Israeli government official would dare say it, but a weakened EU is not necessarily a bad thing for Israel diplomatically. Economics might be another issue. The specter of the EU falling apart, and what kind of forces that will unleash, is also a separate matter. But on the very narrow…
By HERB KEINON, JPOST— While it may have huge ramifications for Britain, Europe, and the world’s economy, Britain’s decision on Thursday to leave or remain a part of the 28-state European Union will have little impact on Israel, Yigal Palmor, a veteran diplomat, said on Wednesday. Palmor’s comments followed a statement made on Monday evening…
By Israel Today Staff, Israel Today-— “Moderate” Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday used his opportunity to address to the European Union Parliament in Brussels to screech out wildly unsubstantiated conspiracy theories regarding Israel. In allegations echoing a popular medieval anti-Semitic libel, Abbas charged, “Only a week ago, a number of rabbis in Israel announced,…
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz, Breaking Israel News— Donald Trump‘s Israel adviser, David Friedman, announced that his boss would probably support an Israeli decision to annex all of Judea and Samaria if Israel deemed it necessary. Friedman made this thrilling revelation in an interview with Haaretz News on Thursday. He also stated that Trump would not…
By JTA, JPOST— WASHINGTON — A Jewish political action committee is seeking to get the Republican Party platform to recognize the West Bank as an “indigenous” part of the Jewish homeland. “The Land of Israel is the indigenous homeland of the Jewish people by right and by law and we oppose any measures to force,…
By Kevin Porter , Christian Post Reporter— Wouldn’t it have been amazing to have witnessed a miracle like Moses parting the Red Sea, to have stood among the crowd of thousands fed by Christ using only two fish and five loaves of bread, or to have experienced some similar miracle? Where are today’s jaw-dropping spectacles?…
BY LEONARDO BLAIR , CHRISTIAN POST— NEW YORK — While many of them said they still weren’t ready to endorse him for president, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump appears to have sufficiently convinced a gathering of more than 900 conservative Christian leaders that he is the best choice for protecting religious freedom. At a…
By Caroline B Glick, JPOST— This week MK Michael Oren stood up to his boss in the Kulanu party, Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon, to the political Left, including hundreds of retired security brass, and to the IDF General Staff. The former ambassador to Washington urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to sign the multi-year security…
