All posts tagged "israel"

• Steve

  “Stop Talking About Peace and Start Talking about the Start Up Nation”

        BBC interview with two Israeli politicians: Livni and Bennet.  Listen closely.   Israeli Leader – “Stop Talking about Peace that won’t happen....

• Blogs

  In Israel Bearing Arms is a Priviledge not a Right

           By Mitch Ginsburg Times of Israel   In Israel, unlike the US, a privilege — but no right — to bear...

• Blogs

  Palestinians: The Third Intifada Has Begun

                  by Khaled Abu Toameh.  Emboldened by the “victories,” Abbas and Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal recently reached a secret agreement on the...

• Algemeiner News Service

  New Israel Fund Response to Im Tirtzu Charges of Radical Behavior as an NGO

        By Blogger Elder of Ziyon.   Zionist youth movement Im Tirtzu recently wrote the following open letter to the new head of the...

• Steve

  If Only It Were So Simple: Israel’s Peace Dilemma

    We made a documentary in Israel, but it wasn’t the one we went there to film. Originally, we wanted to make...

• Blogs

  Checkpoints: The Price of Peace

   Israel’s detractors often paint the security barrier, and the checkpoints that accompany it, as tools Israel uses to oppress the Palestinians, but...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Disguises – Do They Work

    Art work by Phillip Ratner       Joseph is now the ruler of Egypt. The famine he predicted has come to pass....

• Blogs

  A Shabbat Gift for Everyone – American Lone Soldiers in the IDF

      Produced by Write On For Israel/San Francisco teen participants . Our documentary is about Lone Soldiers in the Israeli Defense Forces....

• Blogs

  Comprehensive Coverage of Syria – Iran – Egypt – Gaza – Israel

                                            In-Depth...

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  New Fatah Logo Erases Israel

     Official logo celebrating Fatah’s 48th anniversary  includes map that shows all of Israel as “Palestine”  by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Love is the catalyst to transform, redeem and elevate

      Sculpture By Phillip Ratner.  Mikeitz: Rectifying toward God’s Love We have said that consciousness has the potentials to transform what we...

• Blogs

  Celebrating Hannukah at the Place it all Began

        From lighting candles, to spinning tops and jelly donuts, Jerusalem’s cold Old City streets come alive at the winter festival of...

• Blogs

  The First War of National Liberation

      The first Book of Maccabees describes the military victory that became part of the story of Hanukkah.  But the book did...

• Steve

  What We Are Watching in the News about Israel

    Iranian Commander Names Israel as Iran’s Long-Range Target. TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior Iranian commander said the distance between Iran and Israel...

• Blogs

  Antisemitism and the flight of the ‘progressives’ – A Hanukkah Diarist

    “As my wife and I lit our Hanukkah candles last night, and we sang Ma’oz Tzur (מעוז צור), my mind darkly drifted back...

• Blogs

  Israel Has No Other Alternative But the Alternative it Has is a Good One

      By Barry Rubin. The Palestinian leadership, abetted by many Western governments, has now torn up every agreement it made with Israel....

• Steve

  A View of Tel Aviv

        These are photos  taken in Tel Aviv. Enjoy and Chag Sameach – Happy Hanukkah. The one above was taken  today at...

• Blogs

  Palestine’s strangely stubborn state of mind

                             Half a century of lost battles taught mightier powers to change their mindset – think of Germany after two world wars....

• Steve

  Tel Aviv – City Kids Winter Courses

     We have been so blessed to have City Kids in Tel Aviv. This is the 2nd anniversary of this amazing center...

• Music / Cultural Scene

  Chanukah Treats for All of Israelseen Friends – Enjoy

            Hanukkah (pronounced HAH-nə-kə ;[1][2][3] Hebrew: חֲנֻכָּה, Tiberian: Ḥănukkāh, usually spelled חנוכה, pronounced [χanuˈka] in Modern Hebrew; a transliteration also romanized as Chanukah,...