By KARL RITTER — AP– VATICAN CITY (AP) — Like his predecessor, Pope Francis reached out to Rome’s Jewish community at the very start of his pontificate, pledging to continue to strengthen the increasingly close ties between Catholics and Jews. Just hours after he was elected the first non-European pope in history, Francis sent a…
By RON TOROSSIAN — ARUTZ 7 And we thought college was about broadening horizons. College campuses throughout the United States are bastions of racism and anti-Semitism, and for many years that fact has largely been ignored by the mainstream media. In the ‘80’s anti-Semitism was largely dominated by the likes of African-American anti-Semites like Louis…
By GIL RONEN, ARUTZ 7— With less than a week left until U.S. President Barack Obama arrives in Israel for a visit, the Israel Police are preparing a huge force to keep him safe. About 15,000 police, comprising over half of Israel’s total police force, will work 12-hour shifts starting Wednesday, when Obama lands at…
BY MICHAEL JOHNSON, inCONTEXT— Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party announced a new coalition with the secular Yesh Atid party, the far-right Jewish Home party, and the centrist Hatnua. Just two days before the March 16th deadline to form a new government, Israel’s new coalition will control 68 of the Knesset’s 120 seats. Yesh…
By KHALED ABU TOAMEH, GATESTONE— It is hard to find one Palestinian who believes that US President Barack Obama’s upcoming visit to the region will lead to a breakthrough in the Middle East “peace process.” Palestinian Authority officials in Ramallah said they too are not pinning any hopes on Obama’s visit. “The situation is much…
BY REUTERS— The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) along with the World Jewish Congress (WJC) on Wednesday welcomed Cardinal Jorge María Bergoglio, the archbishop of Buenos Aires, on his election as Pope Francis I. Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, said he was “reassured” over the record of the new Pope, stating that Bergoglio was crucial in…
BY ISRAEL TODAY— These days there is no shortage of Christians worldwide who wish to support the Jewish state in any number or ways. But often these Christians hit a brick wall when the Israelis they seek to support are religious Jews wary of Christian aid. The hesitation is understandable given the centuries of Christian…
“He who has not seen Jerusalem in her splendour has never seen a desirable city in his life. He who has not seen the Temple in its full construcion has never seen a glorious building in his life.”—Babylonian Talmud, Tractate of the Tabernacle
The 1920 San Remo resolution answered a fundamental issue that still plagues the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks today: whether Israel has a right to the land… At last the truth has come out. Here is a short history of what happened in San Remo, Italy in 1920 when the powers of the time ( England, France;…
By ISRAEL HAYOM— With the U.S. President Barack Obama’s historic visit fast approaching, a preparatory meeting was held on Sunday at the Prime Minister’s Office attended by representatives of both Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres, as well as officials from the Foreign Ministry, Defense Ministry, Israel Police, Jerusalem municipality and Ben-Gurion International…