By RON JAGER— In recent weeks and months, public leaders and leading journalists affiliated with the settlement movement have called for annexing and incorporating all of Judea and Samaria into Israel. In response to the chaos and weakness of the Arab nations surrounding Israel and the preoccupation of the Western world with the ongoing genocide…
By RON JAGER— Recent events in the Middle East suggest that 20 years of uncertainty about Israel’s strategic value to American interests may be ending. During the past two decades when the Cold War more or less ended and America was no longer competing with the Soviet Union for strategic control of the Middle East,…
By RON JAGER— When all else fails, lean on Israel which in today’s political environment means unilateralism. Now that Secretary of State Kerry has come and gone back home with little to show for his efforts as far as resuscitating negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Arabs, we have been inundated with expectations to initiate…
By RON JAGER— President Obama in his speech on “The War on Terror” has shown once and for all that he does not consider Islamic terror to be a strategic threat on the United States. Despite the City of Boston still reeling from the effects of a major Islamic terror attack only weeks ago, and…
By RON JAGER— Winston Churchill has been quoted as saying “Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are beyond question the most formidable and the most remarkable race which has ever appeared in the world.” A huge proportion of shapers of the modern…
By RON JAGER,— “Who has made us Jews different from all other people? Who has allowed us to suffer so terribly up until now? It is G-d who has made us as we are, but it will be God, too, who will raise us up again. Who knows it might even be our religion from…
By RON JAGER— This past week, a friend caught me in shul and shared with me the following gem, “If you want to know how the Messiah will be welcomed in Israel, then this past week is a good indication.” The welcome given to President Obama, very much in the tradition of Hollywood’s amazing ability…
By RON JAGER— The celebration of the Jewish festival of Purim, whose observance began Saturday night, has always been linked to Persia, which is known today as the nation of Iran. Purim, has also been for most Jews a reminder of the blind hatred and never-ending desire to rid the world of Jews, a kind…
By RON JAGER— In recent weeks, I have been somewhat surprised by the many voices that have been raised by American Jews calling on Israel and the Israeli public to protest against Obama’s expected visit to the State of Israel next month. Even Abe Lincoln has been enlisted to impel Israel to revolt against the…
by RON JAGER— The Ides of March was a date on the Roman calendar corresponding with our date of March 15. It was a fateful date, the chosen day for the assassination of Julius Caesar. Before Caesar went to the theater of Pompey to attend the Senate meeting, he had been given advice not to…