By YAAKOV LAPIN, JPOST— Israel is set to pay tribute to 23,169 casualties of war and terrorism who have fallen since 1860. On Sunday evening, events marking the Day of Remembrance for the Fallen Soldiers of Israel and Victims of Terrorism will be held around the country. The Defense Ministry said 57 newly fallen had…
“If men of wisdom and knowledge, of moderation and temperance, of patience, fortitude and perseverance, of sobriety and true republican simplicity of manners, of zeal for the honour of the Supreme Being and the welfare of the commonwealth; if men possessed of these other excellent qualities are chosen to fill the seats of government, we…
By SAM SOKOL, JPOST— Immigration to Israel increased by 2 percent in 2013, with over 16,000 olim arriving, the Central Bureau of Statistics announced on Tuesday. Of the 16,884 immigrants who arrived last year, 43% came from the former Soviet Union, primarily Russia and Ukraine, 17% came from France, 13% from the United States and…
Torah: Leviticus 21:1 – 24:23, “Emor” (Say …) Haftorah:Ezekiel 44: 15 – 31 New Testament: I Peter 2:4 – 10 Gospel: John 18:33 – 37, “Shaani Melek” (I am a King … )
By CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— Anti-Semitism is not a simple bigotry. It is a complex neurosis. It involves assigning malign intent to Jews where none exists on the one hand, and rejecting reason as a basis for understanding the world and operating within it on the other hand. John Kerry’s recent use of the term “Apartheid”…
By EARL COX, JPOST — It was a sting, a slap in the face! A leading Israeli scholar labeled it grave and akin to family betrayal. It is saddening that such a thing would occur in the United States. The Palestinian BDS movement (Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions), after a 10-year history with some European success,…
By ISRAEL TODAY— Christy Anastas, a young Palestinian Christian woman from Bethlehem, has bravely released a compilation video in which she, in several different venues, confronts the joint lies that Israel is responsible for the suffering of the Palestinians and for the flight of fellow Christians from the city of Jesus’ birth. The Anastas family…
By CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— It’s hard not to admire Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s brazenness. Two weeks ago, Abbas signed on to 15 international agreements that among other things require the PA to respect human rights and punish war criminals. And this week, he signed a unity deal with two genocidal terror groups all of…
By DAVID RUBIN— Economy Minister Naftali Bennett has taken a step in the right direction with his plan endorsing an Israeli declaration of sovereignty over “Area C”, the 60% of Judea and Samaria (the so-called West Bank), in which most of its approximately 350,000 Jewish citizens live. He goes on to say that Israel should…
