A new, 18-minute mini-documentary follows the journey of Irina, a 23-year-old liberal, Jewish New Yorker who voted for Obama in 2008. Yet as her connection to Israel has grown, and she has learned more about the President’s policies across the Middle East and towards Israel in particular, Irina has come to realize that “when the…
By ELAD BENARI, ARUTZ 7— A senior Iranian foreign ministry official mocked on Sunday Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s over his bomb diagram during his UN speech last week. Addressing a ceremony in Iran’s southern city of Kangan on Sunday, Deputy Foreign Minister for Consular, Parliamentary and Expatriates’ Affairs Hassan Qashqavi said, according to the Fars…
By DANIEL GOLDMAN, JPOST— This week, hundreds of thousands of Jews will ascend to Jerusalem filling its roads, holy sites, and public parks over the festival of Succot. In addition, Jerusalem will be the focus of attention for millions of Jews across the world celebrating the holiday. But in a year when tension between Jews…
By DORE GOLD— PLO Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has again declared his intention to carry out his plan to gain U.N. recognition of a Palestinian state with the opening of the U.N. General Assembly this past week. However, it is not entirely clear how the Palestinians will execute their plan this year, after last year’s effort…
By MICHAEL FREUND, JPOST— With the Palestinian Authority teetering on the brink of financial ruin, an unlikely deliverer has stepped in seeking to save the day. The would-be rescuer is neither a wealthy Gulf Arab sheikh nor a playboy Saudi prince with money to burn, nor even a misguided European government looking to curry favor…
By ISI LEIBLER, ISRAEL HAYOM— The disproportionately high profile of American Jews in the U.S. presidential election contest and the efforts invested by both candidates portraying themselves as supportive of the Jewish state has assumed surrealistic levels. Overall, Israel’s standing in the U.S. today is at an all-time high. Yet, the Democratic convention spotlighted the…
By ILAN BERMAN, WASHINGTON POST— Recent revelations from the International Atomic Energy Agency that Iran has both continued and expanded its uranium enrichment activities have focused attention anew on U.S. policy toward the Islamic Republic — and what more can be done to stop Iran’s march toward the bomb. This is, necessarily, a conversation about…
By RYAN JONES, ISRAEL TODAY— In his much-anticipated address before the UN General Assembly in New York on Wednesday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for a new world order that does not operate in service to “the devil,” which he rather clearly identified as the “Zionist entity.” After complaining about escalating Western sanctions against Iran…
By BILLY HALLOWELL, THE BLAZE— This afternoon, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu addressed the United Nations General Assembly, spending the bulk of his time warning the world against a nuclear-equipped Iran. He challenged global powers to draw a “red line…before Iran completes the second stage of nuclear enrichment to make a nuclear bomb,” and…
America is a relatively safe place. However, a regime halfway around the world could destroy our way of life. From the beginning, the current Iranian regime made it clear that America is public enemy #1. One way to seriously damage America would be a nuke, and one terrifying scenario is a nuclear bomb detonated at…