Today an article appeared in the FrontPageMag.com by Moshe Phillips a member of the Executive Committee of the Philadelphia Chapter of Americans for a safe Israel/AFSI opines on “True Face of “J” Street” He shares his insight on the players involved in “J” street and in particular the Rabbis.
This is simply a beautiful video of this duet with a moving melody.
Kobi’s late grandfather was a paytan he sang piyutim hymns, After his death, the family found he had left hundreds of his piyutim on cassette. In this song Kobi sings a duet with his late grandfather.
By Alan M. Dershowitz
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Every year at about this time, radical Islamic students — aided by radical anti-Israel professors — hold an event they call “Israel Apartheid Week.” During this week, they try to persuade students on campuses around the world to demonize Israel as an apartheid regime. Most students seem to ignore the rantings of these extremists, but some naive students seem to take them seriously. Some pro-Israel and Jewish students claim that they are intimidated when they try to respond to these untruths. As one who strongly opposes any censorship, my solution is to fight bad speech with good speech, lies with truth and educational malpractice with real education.
This weeks Torah portion is packed with so much information, drama and intrigue that reading many of the commentaries makes for a feast of insight and speculation. This week International Artist Phillip Ratner chose to focus on Moses (Moshe) receiving the Ten words (commandments). And so this part of the portion will be emphasized. However, reading Nehama Leibowitz’s commentary on this weeks Torah portion she quotes from Rabbi Kook’s introduction to his guide to Sabbatical laws entitled: Shabbat Ha-aretz ( The Sabbath of the Land) It touched me deeply and so I am putting his insights up along with the Torah portion referring to Moshe and the Tablets. Enjoy. Continue Reading »
By Yoram Getzler
Let us assume that we are truly trying to understand the foundations of this conflict between the Jewish people and the Palestinian/Arab/Muslim world which Prof. Shenhav challenges us to do, (One space for two people, Haaretz, Magazine, Feb 19 ’10 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1150822.html ). The professor calls for a re-imagining of the past in order to understand when and at which moment in history we, the Jewish people, could have acted differently, made decisions unlike the ones we made, which, according to him, would have been more just, and have led to less suffering for the Palestinian people. OK, I accept the challenge. I suggest we expand the possibilities beyond the usual, which is to place the blame on the Jewish people in general and the Zionist enterprise in particular. Continue Reading »
Israeli creation The Aluminum Show travels across the U.S.A. Here is CEO Rachel Baram interview at the Lied Center University of Kansas.
