By STAN GOODENOUGH, JERUSALEM WATCHMAN— “Our enemies are little worms. I saw them at Munich.” – Adolf Hitler, after the Western Powers wilted before his aggressive adamancy at Munich. Instead of sitting like an equal alongside European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Margeret Ashton in Vienna, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Muhammed Zarif should be being…
By SUSAN MICHAEL, ICEJ-USA — A disturbing study guide entitled “Zionism Unsettled” has been published by an arm of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) The publication is filled with distorted facts and a historical narrative so extreme that some Jewish groups are calling it “hate speech.” It vilifies Israel and Zionism while ignoring Palestinian terrorism, calls…
By ISRAEL HAYOM— In the past, anti-Semites boycotted Jewish businesses and today they call for the boycott of the Jewish state, says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu • Finance Minister Yair Lapid: Lack of progress in peace talks would endanger stability of coalition. European calls for a boycott of Israel are “an outrage,” Prime Minister Benjamin…
By SAM SOKOL, JPOST — Jewish leader says organizing a mass boycott of Israel, as civilians are massacred next door in Syria, is explicit anti-Semitism. European leaders need to take a tougher stand against the rise of the nationalist Right, the leader of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations said on Monday.Speaking…
By DR. JOSEPH FRAGER, ARUTZ7 — The Obama administration’s soft approach to Iran’s nuclear program may have done more than simply making a conventional strike more likely. President Obama has had a constant refrain when it comes to Iran – “I’m keeping all options on the table”. The likelihood of President Obama using any kind…
By ISRAEL TODAY— Think the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is winding down? Think again. In 2013 alone, one of Judaism’s holiest sites, the traditional tomb of the biblical matriarch Rachel, was attacked no fewer than 200 times by Palestinian mobs. Rachel’s Tomb, located just inside Bethlehem, is a highly frequented place of prayer for religious Jews. While…
By RABBI STEVEN PRUZANSKY, ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS — “The most charitable way of explaining the election results of 2012 is that Americans voted for the status quo – for the incumbent President and for a divided Congress. They must enjoy gridlock, partisanship, incompetence, economic stagnation and avoidance of responsibility. And fewer people voted. But as…
By KAY WILSON, THE TIMES OF ISRAEL — (The picture at left is Yassar Arafat embraced by the Revd. Dr. Stephen Sizer, Vicar of Christ Church in Virginian Water, UK) Bound, gagged and barefoot with machetes at our throats, we were pushed through the trees to the site of our execution. I whimpered, “Please don’t…
Torah: Exodus 35:1 – 38:20, “Vayakhel” (And he assembled …) Haftorah: I Kings 7:40 – 50 New Testament: Hebrews 9:1 – 15 Gospel: Matthew 5:17 – 20, “Al taakshuv” (Do not think …)
By RUTH KING, ARUTZ 7— Israel’s former Foreign Minister Abba Eban famously referred to the so-called “’67 borders” as “Auschwitz borders,” provocatively expressing the fears of many Israelis that a return to the 1949 Armistice lines would leave them perilously vulnerable to attack in a neighborhood which has proven all too often to be hostile…