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By Barry Rubin For several years I’ve been telling you that under its current Islamist regime, Turkey has become less and less of a democratic state. Hundreds of peaceful dissidents have been arrested, thrown in prison, and accused of seeking to overthrow the government violently when there is no real evidence.
By Yoram Getzler. Please forgive the following long introduction to a moving article written in the aftermath of the brutal murders in the community of Itamar last week. Whatever your position, feelings, or beliefs about the Israeli enterprise of settlement in the former Jordanian areas of Palestine, you owe it to yourself to read, the challenging thoughts by a child of this undertaking and brother of the murdered Rabbi Fogel in the full article.
In this official White House photo by Pete Souza, President Barack Obama confers with Samantha Power, left, and Susan E. Rice, U.S. permanent representative to the United Nations, before they attended a wreath laying ceremony at the U.N. headquarters in New York, N.Y.
Tamar Fogel (left) – ‘Strong like her mother’ Photo: Gabi Newman, Samaria Regional Council. This interview of Tamar Fogel speaks volumes about who her family was, who she is and how she perceives of our lives as Jews and Israelis.
Art by Phillip Ratner “And it was on the eighth (shemini) day, that Moses summoned Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel.” (Leviticus 9:1) because that was the day that the Divine Presence chose to appear to the people after the heads of the Tribes brought their offerings to the Sanctuary: “And they (the priests) took what Moses had commanded to the front of the Tent of Meeting, and the entire community approached and stood before the Lord. And Moses said: ‘This is the thing which G-d commanded you to do; and the glory of G-d shall appear to you’.” (9:5-6).
By Barry Rubin Why is terrorism against Israel increasing now? Because the terrorists have:
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