New Testament in the Knesset

By MICHAEL SELUTIN, ISRAEL TODAY— On Monday morning Knesset members opened their mailboxes and they appaled to find a New Testament inside. It was a leather-bound volume of the “Book of Testaments,” which combines the Old Testament and the New Testament in one. It was printed by the Bible Society-Israel. Some members were shocked and…

Anti-Semitism sweeping France

BY PETER MARTINO, GATESTONE— Early this month, the French weekly magazine Le Nouvel Observateur devoted a cover article and several other articles to the phenomenon of the rising anti-Semitism in France. The magazine referred to several incidents of anti-Jewish violence during the previous weeks. The Council of Jewish Institutions in France (CRIF) keeps track of…

Anarchy surrounds Israel

BY DANIEL PIPES, NRO— Of Israel’s neighbors, Lebanon always stood out by virtue of its weak central government, but for the first twenty years, 1948-68, this did not present difficulties to Israel; only when the Palestinians created a state-within-a-state there did its anarchy became a major challenge to the Jewish state, as symbolized by the…