BY ALLISON KAPLAN SOMMER, HAARETZ— Elisa Moed, originally from Detroit, immigrated to Israel in 2005. A phone call from the Vatican isn’t a typical source of inspiration for an American Jewish immigrant to Israel. But for Elisa Moed, it was a call from the Israeli representative of the Holy See that sparked her to create…
BY RON BEN-YISHAI, YNET— IDF officials expressed discontent over the last round of fighting in the Gaza Strip, saying that despite calls for a ceasefire by Hamas, the rocket barrages have yet to stop. On Friday, more rockets were fired into Israel, probably by other Gaza organizations. The IAF in turn struck a terrorist cell…
BY CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— You have to hand it to the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood. They know how to play power politics. They know how to acquire power. And they know how to use power. Last Friday, the day before voters by most accounts elected the Brotherhood’s candidate Mohamed Morsy to serve as Egypt’s…
He Who blessed our forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob — may He bless the fighters of the Israel Defense Forces, who stand guard over our land and the cities of our God, from the border of the Lebanon to the desert of Egypt, and from the Great Sea unto the approach of the Aravah, on…
Gracious Father. You have made man for the glory of yourself, and when not an instrument of that glory, he is a thing of nothing; No sin is greater than the sin of unbelief, for if union with Christ is the greatest good, unbelief is the greatest sin, as being cross to your command; I…
Last July, as the threat of the Gaza Flotilla loomed, Shurat HaDin brought a civil action in federal court in Washington, DC seeking to seize all the boats that had been purchased by the extremist groups to breach the IDF’s naval blockade of the Hamas controlled Gaza Strip. The proceeding was brought on behalf of…
BY KHALED ABU TOAMEH, GATESTONE— Jordanian government officials say there are growing signs that the kingdom’s powerful Muslim Brotherhood organization has plans to overthrow the regime. The organization, according to the officials, has succeeded in hijacking the anti-corruption and pro-democracy protests that have swept Jordan over the past year. Today, most of the anti-regime demonstrations…
By ELWOOD MCQUAID, JOST MAG— The US’s reluctance to move its embassy to Jerusalem casts doubt on its support for Israel. It is worth noting that America’s president has, for the third time, delayed moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Mandated in the Jerusalem Embassy Act by an overwhelming declaration…
BY JOSEPH PUDER, FRONTPAGEMAG— Later this month, Russian president Vladimir Putin is scheduled to make a state visit to Israel. It will be Putin’s second visit since 2005 (Obama should take notice). Putin, who began his third term as President of Russia last month, served as Prime Minister in the intervening years. In Israel, Putin…
