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Thanks to Giyus for the interview. A few days ago I met Minister Benny Begin and interviewed him for Giyus.org.
by NGO Monitor. On the evening of March 11, 2011, five members of the Fogel family were stabbed to death: Udi, 36, Ruth, 35, and their children Yoav, 11, Elad, 4, and Hadas, 3 months. On April 5 and 10, Israeli security services arrested two suspects from the Palestinian village of Awarta, as well as several accomplices.
By Ariel Ben Avraham. Art by Phillip Ratner There are meaningful times in the Torah when the Creator “defines” Himself to us. Most of the times it seems enough to read “I am the Lord“. When we read that He is holy, we reflect on the Commandments that precede such statement in the Torah: “Speak to the entire congregation of the children of Israel, and say to them, You shall be holy (kedushim), because I, the Lord your G-d, am holy.” (Leviticus 19:2).
This article is published in PajamasMedia. It is reprinted here for your convenience. By Barry Rubin. There’s some controversy about President Barack Obama’s Passover message. The key passage is this:
I have been thinking about what to say for my Passover blog. Every day I receive about 20 emails from a variety of people and institutions regarding the political situation in Israel and the world. I scan them all in order to cull the most interesting and often underreported pieces that reflect intelligent thinking regardless whether I agree with the piece.
by Malcolm Lowe http://www.hudson-ny.org/2045/palestinian-christianity-myth There has been much excellent academic study of the history of Christianity in the land of its birth. It could fill a whole library. In recent years, however, all that fine work has been eclipsed by the myth, created by the so-called “Palestinian narrative,” of Palestinian Christianity.
