All posts tagged "Jews"

• Blogs

  Towards Redressing Injustices on All Sides

  Aharon Mor and Orly Rahimiyan, For over 2,500 years, Jewish communities have existed in the lands now known as the Middle East and North...

• Blogs

  Sanctions don’t work, Obama won’t act. Hanegbi’s conclusions: We are alone.

    By Ari Shavit. Former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon thought Tzachi Hanegbi should be prime minister. He believed that someone who had...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  The Day Forgiveness Was Born

  Art by Phillip Ratner. This is a very timely commentary for this time of year. By Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks of Britain....

• Blogs

  Young Arab and Jewish Youth – Jeruslaem Goes Basketball Crazy

    By Moshe Cohen Every summer, the municipal complex at Safra Square gets re-purposed for two days as a giant basketball venue...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Covenant & Conversation 5772: Ki Tavo – Listening and Law

  By International Artist Phillip Ratner.  Commentary by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks of England. It would be reasonable to assume that a language...

• Blogs

  A Critical Appraisal – The State of the Jews

  Reviewed by Asaf Romirowsky by Edward Alexander Transaction Publishers, 2012. $35 pp. 264. As anti-Zionism/anti-Semitism have become more acceptable as “genuine” criticism...

• Steve

  “The dominant culture in Israel has always directed its eyes towards the West.”

    Sami Michael at the 2012 ACUM Awards ceremony Photo by Daniel Tchetchik. This is a translation of a speech delivered by...

• Blogs

  How Individual Philosophy and World View Affect Halakhic Decisions

  Rabbi Kook  Rabbi Uziel.              Rabbi Kook and Rabbi Uziel studied the same talmudic and rabbinic sources. That their rulings were diametrically...

• Yoram Getzler z"l

  The Potential is a Challenge – Israeli-Arabs

  By Yoram Getzler. Good Brother; Dear Steve (from America/Aim Raikah) I really wanted to thank you for putting-up the inspiring story of...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Ki Tetse – To be free, you have to let go of hate.

    By Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks.  Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only...

• Steve

  Israel – Birth of a Nation – Sir Martin Gilbert

  Fair Use as per US Copyright Law. The legends of the stolen land and “ethnic cleansing” are hard if not impossible to...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Separated from the mind, the heart became numb and developed into a “Heart of Stone”

      PARSHAT R’EH. by Yehuda HaKohen “Then it shall be that the place where HaShem, your G-D, will choose to rest His...

• Steve

  Somebody out there wants to kill me

  By Yair Lapid. The recent terror attempt at Sinai, which was miraculously thwarted at the last minute, reminded me of a very...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  As Israel returns to independence in our land…

             PARSHAT EKEV by Yehuda HaKohen. Another point of view. EKEV opens and closes with challenging ideas meant to condition the...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  HaShem is not some giant invisible tyrant but rather the timeless ultimate Reality

  PARSHAT VA’ETCHANAN (by Yehuda HaKohen) “I implored HaShem at that time, saying, `My L-rd, HaShem, You have begun to show Your servant...

• Steve

  Liberty Patriarchs and Pioneers – The Search for Freedom and Individual Responsiblity

  “Go ye!” – Patriarchs and Pioneers by Kenneth Hanson  .“Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the...

• Algemeiner News Service

  Why Are We Afraid to Speak the Real Truth About Israel?

      The famous Israeli flag above the Choshen building in East Jerusalem signifies Jewish presence. Photo: JewishPress.com. By Yosef Y. Jacobson. This...

• Algemeiner News Service

  The Times – Rogge’s election as IOC president Influenced by Sheik Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah of Kuwait

  by Dovid Efune. It wasn’t the Israelis that brought politics to the Olympic Games; it was the terror thugs of the PLO...

• Blogs

  News Resources – Headlines in the News – Middle East

  This new feature comes to us by way of the Jerusalem Center of Public Affairs. In-Depth Issues: Russia’s Top Cyber Sleuth Foils...

• Steve

  From Burgas to London – The Connection

      Late on Thursday night, the coffins of the five Israeli victims murdered (together with the Bulgarian bus driver Mustafa Kyosov) in...