Posts Tagged: Jewish people
Knesset Member Demands Turkish Apology for Struma Sinking
Amid the continuing aftermath of Israel's apology to Turkey for the May 2010 Gaza flotilla incident, Likud Member of Knesset Moshe Feiglin demanded on Sunday...
A Fighter for Jewish Freedom: In Praise of Ronnie Fraser
I first met Ronnie Fraser, director of Academic Friends of Israel, in 2011 at the Big Tent for Israel conference in Manchester. He attended...
Flags to be Waved Throughout Israel to Mark Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Schools throughout Israel this month will wave Israeli flags at precisely the same time as part of a special ceremony commemorating the 70th anniversary of...
Full Transcript: Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu Welcomes President Obama to Israel
Below is the full transcript of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's speech welcoming U.S. President Obama on his first trip to Israel as U.S. president....
Between Destiny and Chance
The third book of the Torah is known in English as "Leviticus", a word deriving from Greek and Latin, meaning, "pertaining to the ...
American Patriotism and Service in the IDF
I met with a group from the American military last week. After thanking them for their gallant service, one of them inquired about my daughter...
Little Moons
Veteran or novice, whom do you choose? Say you are the coach of a sports team and you have accomplished stars but they may be...
Three Types of Community
A long drama had taken place. Moses had led the people from slavery to the beginning of the road to freedom. The people themselves...
Penny Waga – My Mother, My Hero
My mother, Penny Waga passed away this week after a long illness. As someone who loved - and was loved - by her more than...
Two Types of Religious Encounter
Framing the epic events of this week's sedra (Bible portion) are two objects - the two sets of tablets, the first given before, the...
Response to Judith Butler at Brooklyn College
The ironic and the disingenuous are kin. Their commonality resides in a gap, which is the distance between what is said and something else. With...
The Building of the Tabernacle and the Jewish Ethnogenesis
As soon as we read the opening lines of Terumah we begin the massive shift from the intense drama of the exodus with its...
Netanyahu: Middle East Threats “Will Not Stop During the Formation of the Government” (VIDEO)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stressed that the threats and challenges faced daily by the Jewish state are unceasing, and that they would not be...
Israel’s Emphatic Response to Obama’s Thinly Veiled Threat
There is much to be said about Bloomberg Columnist Jeffrey Goldberg's recent report on President Obama's current attitude towards Israel, where he claimed that the...
