The Real Occupiers: Judea, Circa 50 CE
The Occupy Wall Street demonstrations show no sign of abating and the voice of collective dissent now echoes well beyond lower Manhattan. During the past few weeks, the movement has spread nationally, as protesters across the country came together in a leaderless association that rails against corporate greed and social inequality.
The Plan To Establish A Jewish Homeland In America
Though he frankly admitted that he expected to make a fortune on his investment, his primary motive was to create a short-term haven for persecuted Jews.
Nixon’s Haggadah (And Other Notable Haggadot)
Scholars still debate whether he yielded to pressure from his publisher or to pressure from British politicians pursuing a policy of appeasement with Hitler’s Germany.
The Argument Against Zealotry
What defines kana’ut these days? Throwing rocks at passing cars on Shabbos? Burning an Israeli flag on Yom Ha’Atzmaut?
‘And A Little Child Shall Lead Them’
If the eyes are the window to the soul, then children’s eyes are the window to the Almighty Himself.
French Anti-Semitism: Anatomy of an Old/New Phenomenon
Daniel Pipes warns that France offers a preview of what things could look like in the U.S. if there were a substantial increase in the Muslim population here, or if a population outside of the political mainstream were to gain political power.
Why Batman Matters
It’s important to acknowledge this right from the beginning: I love Batman. In fact, no one loves him more than I do. He and I have a history that goes back over four decades.
An American in the IDF
These stories instilled in Matthew a certain character - tough, brash - but not a sense of mission. Not a drive to fight for Israel.
Prerequisites For Peace: The Road Map One Year Later
The virulent propaganda that Abbas has espoused (including equating Zionism with Nazism and denying the Holocaust) is now the hallmark of the Arab world and a primary tool in the global campaign to discredit Israel.
Prophets Of Hope Amid Despair
The Messiah, a descendant of the house of David, will establish a reign of righteousness and truth.
Lies of the Anti-Lobby Lobby
There is a nefarious lobby that controls American policy and subordinates American interests to its own narrow interests.
The Late Great State of Israel
It has been four long, thrilling years since I first arrived as a journalist in the Middle East. I've reported for months on end from the rocket-battered Jewish communities of the Gaza Strip and the war-torn Israeli-Lebanese-Syrian borders. I've stood in the trenches during massive nationalist protests and Israeli evacuations of Jewish homes.
How France Sank The Original Mideast Peace
At the Paris Peace Conference in January 1919, in a flag-bedecked, battle-scarred but victorious Paris, the great top-hatted Allied men of vision and illusion gathered to remake the world and invent the post-Ottoman Middle East.
Exclusive Interview: After D.C. Shooting, NYC’s Antisemitism Czar Announces New Initiatives
There’s criminal aspects of anti-Jewish hate crimes, and I think those are the most chilling because everyone understands that someone’s being attacked because they’re Jewish. The other aspects are bias incidents, discrimination, and subversive antisemitism that exists in language, exists in education, exists in different ways – and that’s a very large focus of the office.
The Early Zionist Celebration Of Tu B’Shevat
The fifteenth day of the month of Shevat was designated for calculating the age of trees both for harvesting and tithing purposes, and this “Jewish Arbor Day” was celebrated at least as far back as Talmudic times.
U.S. Policy On Israel And The Obama-Trump Transition
Resolution 242 does not in itself strengthen the already strong legitimacy in international law for Israel’s claim to the territories. But it is relevant in several respects.
Face to Face With My Potential Killer
Interview with a suicide bomber in training
Israel’s First General, A West Point Alumn
Marcus held a reserve commission as a field artillery officer, but because of his prominent legal career, he was persuaded to transfer to the JAG corps, where he became Judge Advocate of his Army National Guard unit (1940).
The Empty Rage of Jewish ‘Progressives’
In complaining that Rosenfeld is trying to silence Jews who disagree with him, Pogrebin at one point compares him to Brandeis donors who withdrew their support from the university after it invited Jimmy Carter to speak.
Defending Israel’s Right To Secure Borders
Following the Six Day War, UN Resolution 242 called on Israel to withdraw ''from territories occupied in the recent conflict,'' while affirming Israel's ''right to live in peace within secure and recognized boundaries.''
The Cantonists: The Jewish Children's Army
On August 26, 1827, Tsar Nicholas I published the Recruitment Decree calling for conscription of Jewish boys between the ages of twelve and twenty-five.
Al Qaeda’s Neo-Nazi Connections
Although upwards of as many as 500 neo-Nazi mercenaries, formed into a so-called Freedom Corps, were sent to Iraq in 1991, their military effect was negligible at best.
The Multimillionaire Who Remained True to Orthodoxy
In 1924 Harry Fischel had occasion to visit the town of Eishishok in Lithuania.
Milk and Honey
The nightmare visited upon the elderly couple took its toll. Within the year, they both succumbed to the agony of their ordeal, having been unable to withstand the spiritual loss of their one and only child.
‘Say It Ain’t So’… But It Was So
Much of childhood is spent in illusion. We grow up imagining things not as they are, but as we wish them to be.
Left Still Wrong After All These Years: An Interview With Mona Charen
I never thought that our moral legitimacy arises from getting authority from the United Nations to begin with.
Justice Scalia As Talmudic Scholar
“Talmudic sages believed that judges who accepted bribes would be punished by eventually losing all knowledge of the divine law.”
Retail Kings
They can't quite take credit for inventing them, but Jews had a long, colorful, and mostly profitable involvement with the great retail emporiums - the large scale specialty and department stores that came, literally and figuratively, to dominate the landscape of 20th century America.
Venezuela Diary: Fear, Courage, Responsibility
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
As our plane lands in Caracas I think about why we've come. Our objective is to express solidarity; to learn facts on the ground; and to speak with community leaders, rabbis, and clergy of other faiths with the goal of helping to map out future policy.
Henry Siegman, Pro-Palestinian Propagandist
The Middle East, after all, is a volatile region, and accurate predictions are not always so easy. But there is no such excuse for Siegman's all too common errors of fact.
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