Bob Gorelik

This is a re-post from Aish.com by Rabbi Benjamin Blech

Echoes of Queen Esther who broke protocol in the face of an Iranian threat to destroy her people.

Controversy surrounds the Prime Minister of Israel’s forthcoming appearance on Capitol Hill.

Invited by Republican House Speaker John Boehner to address Congress about the threat of Iran’s nuclear ambitions, Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed this opportunity to share his country’s existential concern as the Iranian regime comes ever closer to achieving the capability of fulfilling its avowed goal of the total annihilation of Israel. But the White House has made known its displeasure. A growing number of Democratic lawmakers said they would boycott his talk. Vice President Joe Biden, who as president of the Senate would normally oversee Netanyahu’s address, said he would be out of town. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said she hoped the speech “doesn’t take place.”

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This is a re-post from Shorashim of the Old City by Rabbi Benjamin Blech

No people threatened by an aggressor and fighting for their existence has been vilified for using their full forces to prevail, except Israel.

The Internet is all a-Twitter about Jordan’s King Abdulla. Almost overnight the King has become an international hero. As one Google headline put it, “The Internet has fallen in love with the warrior King.”
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This is a re-post from aish.com by Yvette Alt Miller

After Dan Uzan, a volunteer guarding Copenhagen’s Great Synagogue, was shot in the head on February 14, 2015 by a gunman who had hours earlier shot multiple rounds of fire at a café hosting a free speech event, murdering one man, the small Jewish communities of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden wondered if perhaps it was not too dangerous to go about their Jewish lives.
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Muslim Ring of PeaceRead More »

Rabbi Sacks Published in The Daily Telegraph 27th January 2015

Why we all need Holocaust Memorial Day

Anti-Semitism is on the march once more in Europe - and no free society is built on hate.

Today, Holocaust Memorial Day, will mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. This year we will also remember the 12 people killed in the attack on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris, the murdered policewoman and the four customers in a Jewish supermarket, shot as they were shopping on the eve of the Sabbath.

The journalists and the policewoman were killed because of what they did: satirising the prophet Mohammed and guarding the public. The Jewish customers were killed because of what they were. They were Jews. Seventy years after the Holocaust, anti-Semitism is alive and well and has returned to Europe.

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This is a re-post from Israelnationalnews.com

Jordanian Salafi cleric makes surprising ruling, notes Jewish presence pre-Islam and says 'Israelites' should thus be given a right to pray.

Jewish visitors on Temple Mount flanked by Dome of the Rock (L) and Al-Aqsa Mosque

A Jordanian Muslim preacher has called for Jews to be allowed to pray on the Temple Mount, and even for a special "house of prayer" to be set up for them there.

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