Scripture reading for August 10, 2013
Torah: Deuteronomy 16:18 – 21:9, “Shofteem” (Judges …) Haftorah: Isaiah 51:12 – 52:12 New Testament: Acts 3:22 – 23 Gospel: John 1:19 – 27, “Adutoe” (Testimony …)
Impossibility of a Two State Solution
By WARREN MANISON, UCI— The proposed Two State solution to the Israel/Palestinian impasse is an impossibility. Separate states for Jews and Palestinian Arabs, living side by side in peace in the Holy Land, have been proposed and rejected by Arabs in recent history. When one fails to learn from history, one is doomed to repeat…
Hating Jews: A global study
By BRUCE BAWER, FRONTPAGEMAG— “The study of antisemitism,” admits Bruno Chaouat, a professor of French in Minnesota, “can be tedious.” This admirably candid confession appears relatively early in the pages of Resurgent Antisemitism: Global Perspectives, a collection of nineteen new essays edited by Alvin H. Rosenfeld, the distinguished director of Indiana University’s Institute for the…
Devil’s test
BY AMNON ABRAMOVICH, YNET— Nine months from now the Israeli government, guided by the US and with the help of God, is expected sign a peace agreement with the Palestinians. In the event that such a deal is reached, will it include the release from prison of Hakim and Amjad Awad? Some two years ago…
Devil's test
BY AMNON ABRAMOVICH, YNET— Nine months from now the Israeli government, guided by the US and with the help of God, is expected sign a peace agreement with the Palestinians. In the event that such a deal is reached, will it include the release from prison of Hakim and Amjad Awad? Some two years ago…
Netanyahu One-Liner Sums Up Conflict
By GIL RONEN, ARUTZ 7— The Knesset can be a tough crowd for any Prime Minister. The fierce debate often forces the Knesset speaker to intervene and even discipline MKs who are deemed too disruptive. So PM Netanyahu must have been quite pleased at requiring the speaker to call the legislature to order for a…
Israelis called to mass Temple Mount protest
By RYAN JONES, ISRAEL TODAY— Israelis are growing increasingly fed up with the lack of religious freedom for Jews on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, Judaism’s most holy site, because of ongoing fear over a Muslim backlash. For years already, unofficial restrictions bar Jews and Christians from praying atop the Temple Mount or carrying a Bible to…
Wish I'd said that
“No two cities have counted more with mankind than Athens and Jerusalem.”—Winston Churchill
A triumph for terror
By MICHAEL FREUND, JPOST— They murdered men and women because they were Jewish, stabbed 13-year-old kids and firebombed Israeli buses and cars. They hurled grenades at Israeli civilians, kidnapped, tortured and killed young soldiers, and assaulted and slew the elderly, including a Holocaust survivor. These are just a few of the 104 Palestinian prisoners the…