BY FRANK GAFFNEY— As the nation mourns the loss in combat of thirty of its military heroes – including 22 members of the Navy’s elite SEAL Team 6 – in Afghanistan over the weekend, the question inevitably occurs: What are we fighting for that justifies this latest among so much sacrifice in that distant, backwards…
BY JONATHAN SCHANZER, NY POST– Palestinian leaders are publicly calling for nonviolence in massive protests planned for next month — but another intifada may well be in the cards. The Palestinian Authority seeks UN recognition of it as a state — a resolution that America is expected to veto, based on the belief that Palestinian…
The 9th of Av has historically been a tragic day for the Jewish people. However, this day will ultimately become a day of joy and celebration. Yishai Fleisher explores the origin and meaning of the 9th of Av in this original short film. He emphasizes the special hope for the future born in the current…
BY ZE’EV JABOTINSKY, AFSI— As this day of mourning, Tisha B’Av, approaches, it is fitting to read the words of a great prophet and Zionist, Ze’ev Jabotinsky, as he pleaded with the Jews of Poland 73 years ago to save themselves from the certain death that Hitler was planning for them. In addition to seeing…
BY ARUTZ 7— The fast of Tisha B’Av, the “saddest” day in the Jewish calendar, begins Monday evening at sundown and ends Tuesday night. Its name literally means “the ninth day of Av,” the date of some of the gravest tragedies to have befallen the Jewish People. Tisha B’Av is a day of lamentations that…
BY SARA DEBBIE GUTFREUND, AISH— For the past few weeks I have been walking around in a daze. The terrible tragedy of Leiby Kletzky’s death feels like a constant loss wherever I turn. Last Shabbos a neighbor’s nine-year-old boy came to pick up his little sister from our house. And he looked exactly like the…
BY HERB KEINON, JPOST— Israel is prepared to make concessions, but the Palestinians have shown no indication of a willingness on their own for compromise, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Monday to a group of 18 ambassadors to Washington from Asian, European, African and Latin American countries who don’t usually vote for Israel at the UN.…
BY GIL RONEN, ARUTZ 7— Exciting finds, including an intact Roman era sword and a stone “sketch” engraving of the Menorah, have been discovered in archeological digs near the Temple Mount recently, and the Antiquities Authority is making them known for Tisha B’Av – the anniversary of the Temple’s destruction. The Authority has been digging…
BY ISRAEL TODAY— Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Sunday warned that the Palestinian Authority is planning to unleash a new wave of violence against Israel in conjunction with its bid for UN recognition of a Palestinian state at the UN in September. The Palestinian leadership “is planning violence and bloodshed on a scale that…
BY SHEERA FRENKEL, JEWISHWORLDREVIEW— More than a quarter-million Israelis marched Saturday evening against the high cost of housing, though many Israelis said it was a general protest over the struggle to make ends meet. “Every month was the same. We would work and cut coupons and hold off on anything frivolous. Still, we would end…