By: Ted Belman, Israpundit— The bombing of a pro-Kurdish rally in Ankara highlights the ‘dangerous cocktail’ brewing in Turkey which killed 98 Kurds US Shifts to Helping Kurds in Syria LONDON (CBS) — U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter says the America’s failed program to train Syrian rebels will be replaced with a more ‘strategic approach.’ The…
Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs— On Tuesday, 13 October 2015, the first ever official Knesset Caucus for the Reconnection with the Descendants of Spanish and Portuguese Jewish Communities (otherwise known as Bnei Anusim, Marranos and Conversos) will be held. Patio of the Inquisition – Portugal As a result of forced conversions, expulsions and persecution by…
“The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.” Martin Luther King Jr.
By: Prof. Paul Eidelberg— Introduction In The Dream Palace of the Arabs, the renowned Lebanese-born scholar, Fouad Ajami of Johns Hopkins University, portrays the thoughts of the most prominent of literati of the Arab-Islamic world who sorrowfully behold the “death of Arab civilization.” He himself writes that “Arab society had run through most of its myths,…
By: Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu, Israpundit— Syrian rebels, the Islamic State (ISIS) and the Assad regime, and today that means Russia, now have another reason to capture the Golan Heights – oil. Drilling that began more than a year ago has exposed a huge find of billions of barrels of oil, but it is too early to…
By: Fred Maroun, Times of Israel— I have long resisted saying this, but the ongoing Arab violence in Jerusalem has pushed Arab idiocy beyond my capacity for tolerance. I now need to say it and to say it publicly: I am embarrassed to be an Arab. From the start, we have refused to accept the…
Torah: Genesis 1:1 – 6:8, “Beresheet” (In the beginning …) Haftorah: Isaiah 42:5 – 43:11 New Testament: Colossians 1:15 – 17 Gospel: John 1:1 – 14, “Beresheet” (In the beginning … )
By: Elliott Abrams, Council on Foreign Nations— When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to the U.N. General Assembly this week, neither U.S. Secretary of State Kerry nor even U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power were present. Why not? The State Department has said Kerry was involved in some kind of conference call or video…
By: Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz, Breaking Israel News— An important Hassidic rabbinical leader recently offered a surprising Biblical interpretation of the War of Gog and Magog. At the festive meal that concluded the holiday of Simchat Torah earlier this week, Rabbi Sholom Berger, also know as the Mishkolitz Rebbe, spoke about the imminent arrival of the…
By: Caroline Glick, JPOST— All the Palestinian terrorist attacks that have been carried out in recent weeks share one common feature. All the terrorists believe that by attacking Jews they are protecting the Temple Mount from destruction. And why shouldn’t they believe this obscenity? Everywhere they go, every time they turn on their televisions, read…