BY NICOLE JANSEZIAN, TRAVELUJAH— It wasn’t your everyday sight at the Western Wall, the holiest site in Judaism: dozens of motorcyclists in black leather vests, tattoos and army-green bandanas gathered at the plaza in a culmination of their journey across the country, broke bread together and honored the Israeli army with a prayer and a…
Ryan Jones — ISRAEL TODAY A senior American military official on Friday told CNN that the Obama Administration is “absolutely concerned” that Israel may soon strike Iran’s nuclear facilities. The official insisted that the US itself has no intention of attacking Iran (though other reports suggest otherwise), and said there is no guarantee Israel will…
By CAROLINE B. GLICK — JPost — The only way to defeat those who deny our rights to our land, our nationhood and our history is to expose their corruption, and their hateful intentions towards the Jewish people. You have to hand it to the Palestinians. They decided to abandon the…
“We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon – no alternative.”— Golda Meir
Perhaps this is why Joe Lieberman said “The way this Occupy Wall Street is expressing itself is not reflective of the majority of people in our country”–is not embracing the protesters: This is a protest aimed at bankers with a certain element who perversely want to blame the Jews for all of this country’s problems.…
BY YARON BROOK AND ALEX EPSTEIN, THE OBJECTIVE STANDARD— This essay is partially based on a lecture, “The Morality of War,” delivered by Yaron Brook at numerous venues across the country. This article is very long and it was written six years ago but it is the best article I’ve ever read on Just War…
Torah: Genesis 21:1 – 17:23, “Lekh Lekha” (Go forth yourself …) Haftorah: Isaiah 40:27 – 41:10 New Testament: Romans 4:1 – 25 Gospels: John 8:48 – 59, “Ani Hu” (I am …)
BY HAARETZ Amidst a flurry of recent reports regarding a possible Israeli attack against Iran, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Monday that he and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have not already decided that Israel will conduct such a strike. “It does not take a genius to understand that in Israel in 2011 two people…
BY ELWOOD MCQUAID, JPOST— Israel has long been like the canary in the mineshaft. If the canary succumbs to the odorless, lethal gases of the depths below, the miners know it’s time to get out of the mine. Anti-Semitic militancy, like the canary in the mine, warns the rest of the world of what lies…
