Posts Tagged: Jewish people
Jonathan Freedland’s Illusions About the Nature of Modern Antisemitism
Jonathan Freedland is one of the more decent and reasonable Guardian journalists. It's sad that, at the Guardian, being a Zionist who takes anti-Jewish racism seriously warrants...
Religion’s Most Repellent Idea
The most dangerous and offensive of all religious ideas is that innocent people suffer because of their sins. This notion, so easily abused, makes...
Accessing The Bible With 21st Century Technology
The Bible, the best-selling book in history, is transitioning into the 21st century. An online project which intends to produce the first grassroots Bible, Tanakh...
Netanyahu to Ambassadors: Palestinians Must Declare Conflict Over for Peace Accord
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, lecturing to Israeli ambassadors about regional concerns at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, said Palestinian claims of a "right of return"...
The Greatness of Growth and Change
The sequence from Bereishit (Genesis) 37 to 50 is the longest unbroken narrative in the Torah (Bible), and there can be no doubt who its...
Sandy Hook Massacre: Learning to Value The Lives of Children
When I became an uncle at 14 I bought all the kids in my Yeshiva a bar of ice cream to celebrate. The feeling was...
Netanyahu Must Double Down on Jerusalem Construction
An amazing thing happened this week. European Foreign Ministers gathered in Brussels Monday to express their strong disapproval of, and to concoct new schemes by which...
Chanukah Diarist: Antisemitism and the Flight of the ‘Progressives’
As my wife and I lit our Chanukah candles last night, and we sang Ma'oz Tzur (מעוז צור), my mind darkly drifted back to a query...
Build, Bibi, Build
In recent days, Israel has been subjected to what Israeli daily Yediot Ahronot termed a "diplomatic tsunami." Frantic efforts to halt Israel's operation Pillar of Defense...
Palestine is Jewish
51 member countries - the entire League of Nations [Today's UN] - unanimously declared on July 24, 1922: "Whereas recognition has been given to the historical connection of...
Judaism is a Gentile Friendly Religion
This article was originally published by the Jewish Chronicle. 'Chas, we can save you!' When I received messages on my blog making this thrilling...
The United Nations Does Not Create States
The passage of U.N. General Assembly Resolution 181, also known as the Partition Plan, on Nov. 29, 1947, marked an enormous moral victory for the...
Israeli Ambassador Prosor at UN: “Israel Remains Committed to peace”
Following the Thursday vote giving the Palestinaisn upgraded status at the United Nations, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with Israeli Ambassador to the UN...
Netanyahu: Peace Through Negotiations, Not ‘Declarations at the UN’
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that the Palestinian Authority bid for United Nations recognition "will not change a thing, and certainly won't hasten the establishment of...
