Video: The life of Theodor Herzl
Film about Theodor Herzl featuring the important events in his life. The film was made in honor of the centenary of his birth.
Video: The life of Theodor Herzl
Film about Theodor Herzl featuring the important events in his life. The film was made in honor of the centenary of his birth.
What the Evangelicals Give the Jews
By MICHAEL MEDVED, COMMENTARY— Many Jewish voters this November will find themselves at a crossroads: Will they accept their deep disappointment with Barack Obama and vote for his reelection, or will they overcome their own discomfort with Christian evangelicals and vote for the Republican candidate? The irrepressible argument about the appropriate relationship between the Jewish…
Wish I'd said that
“For the circle is perfect and infinite in its nature; but it is fixed for ever in its size; it can never be larger or smaller. But the cross, though it has at its heart a collision and a contradiction, can extend its four arms for ever without altering its shape. Because it has a…
Scripture Reading for May 12, 2012
Torah: Leviticus 25:1 – 26:2, “B’har” (On the mount …) Haftorah: Jeremiah 32:6 – 27 New Testament: II Corinthians 1:18 – 22 Gospel: Luke 4:16 – 21, “Al Natzraat” (To Nazareth …)
When General Grant Expelled the Jews
BY JEFF JACOBY, COMMENTARY— In December 1862, from his military headquarters in Mississippi, Major General Ulysses S. Grant issued a directive expelling “Jews as a class” from the immense war zone known as the Department of the Tennessee. General Orders No. 11 was the most notorious anti-Jewish edict ever issued by an official of the…
Echoes of '67: Israel unites
BY CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER, In May 1967, in brazen violation of previous truce agreements, Egypt ordered U.N. peacekeepers out of the Sinai, marched 120,000 troops to the Israeli border, blockaded the Straits of Tiran (Israel’s southern outlet to the world’s oceans), abruptly signed a military pact with Jordan and, together with Syria, pledged war for the…
The real Palestinian refugee problem
BY CLIFFORD D. MAY, NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE— After World War II, the British left India, which was to be partitioned into two independent nations. One of them would have a Hindu majority, the other a Muslim majority. More than 7 million Muslims moved to the territory that became Pakistan. A similar number of Hindus and…
The miracle of Israel's rebirth
BY EARL COX, JPOST— As it is now time to say Happy 64th Birthday to America’s most valued friend and ally in the Middle East, let us also recall the miracle of Israel that not only makes it among the youngest nations on earth, but also one of the oldest. Some four thousand years ago,…