These words of comfort are taken from Isaiah and are especially appropriate during the Three Weeks of Mourning for the Temple in Jerusalem. With her heartfelt voice, Neshama Carlebach sings in Hebrew these words taken from the Bible. The photos were taken in Israel of recent tragedies and remind us how greatly we need God’s…
By KENNETH LEVIN, FRONTPAGEMAG— In a 1977 Supreme Court opinion, Thurgood Marshall, the court’s first African-American justice, observed, “Social scientists agree that members of minority groups frequently respond to discrimination and prejudice by attempting to disassociate themselves from the group, even to the point of adopting the majority’s negative attitudes towards the minority.” Marshall further…
By SHOSHANA BRYEN, AMERICAN THINKER— The government of South Africa has defined the State of Israel as not including Beersheva, Yad Mordechai, Acco, Afula, and Nahariya. It creates an “Arab Enclave” in Jaffa not governed by Israel. It reduces the borders of Israel in two places to points on a map — one in the…
Torah: Deuteronomy 21:10 – 25:19 “Ki Tetse” (When you go out …) Haftorah: Isaiah 54:1 – 10 New Testament: I Corinthians 5:1 – 5 Gospel: Matthew 9:18 – 26 “Bichnaf bigdoe: (the hem of his garment …)
By DAVID RUBINSTEIN, JPOST— Jewish support for the enemies of Israel represents the triumph of leftism over Jewishness. — Among its many critics, there is a startling number of Jews who calumniate Israel and, in some cases, champion those threatening its existence. Noam Chomsky heads this list, but he is hardly alone. Norman Finkelstein, Ilan…
“Civilization hangs suspended, from generation to generation, by the gossamer strand of memory. If only one cohort of mothers and fathers fails to convey to its children what it has learned from its parents, then the great chain of learning and wisdom snaps. If the guardians of human knowledge stumble only one time, in their…
By CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— This week a German doctor in Bavaria filed a criminal complaint against Rabbi David Goldberg. Rabbi Goldberg’s “crime”? He performs ritual circumcisions on Jewish male infants in accordance with Jewish law. The doctor’s complaint came shortly after a ruling by a court in Cologne outlawing the practice of male circumcision. The…
From the Jewish Star 2012 winner Dovid Moskovits comes his latest release, Sa’eni Nah. Written by Zvika Bornstein with music by Rolf Lovland, this is the first time that the song “You Raise Me Up” has been covered in Hebrew and the touching lyrics transcend language and culture, speaking words of solace and comfort that…
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER, WASHINGTON POST — Either Israel is engaged in the most elaborate ruse since the Trojan horse or it is on the cusp of a preemptive strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities. What’s alarming is not just Iran’s increasing store of enriched uranium or the growing sophistication of its rocketry. It’s also the increasingly…
