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by Todd Ferguson I’m hoping that you will invest 10 minutes of your precious time to watch this video! It is important because it will give you a “non-media” view of the conflict in Gaza. It is a short communication from a young lady who lives near the Gaza border in a Kibbutz and how […]
Read MoreTisha B’Av and Devarim (Deuteronomy) by Dolores Moran This Shabbat the scroll was opened to the book of Devarim. Parasha Devarim is always read on Shabbat Chazon (“Sabbath of Vision”), the Sabbath that precedes the week in which the tragic day of Tisha B’Av is observed. Even as he stands with the Israelites on the […]
Read MoreThis is a re-post from Haaretz.com IDF tells troops in Gaza: Fire only when fired upon ● Hamas agrees to 24-hour humanitarian truce ● IDF soldier killed by mortar shell ● 15 Palestinians killed, raising death toll to 1,034. Operation Protective Edge entered its 20th day on Sunday as Israeli ground forces continued their incursion […]
Read MoreThis is a re-post from Virtual Jerusalem In one of the best performances by an Israeli spokesman since the start of Operation Protective Edge, Israel’s US ambassador, Ron Dermer, turned the tables on a CNN anchor who tried to corner him over the deaths of children in a Gaza school that was bombed. “What happened […]
Read MoreThis is a re-post from The Wall Street Journal By Bret Stephens In March 2004, a Palestinian teenager named Hussam Abdo was spotted by Israeli soldiers behaving suspiciously as he approached the Hawara checkpoint in the West Bank. Ordered at gunpoint to raise his sweater, the startled boy exposed a suicide vest loaded with nearly […]
Read MoreThis is a re-post from rabbisacks.org This past Shabbat we read the parsha of Chukkat with its almost incomprehensible commandment of the red heifer whose mixed with “living water” purified those who had been in contact with death so that they could enter the Mishkan, symbolic home of the glory of God. Almost incomprehensible but […]
Read MoreThis is a re-post from rabbisacks.org So the battle for the World Cup has finally begun. You could hardly miss it. Already in anticipation the logo on my computer search engine has been jumping up and down in excitement. And there’ll be many cheers and groans ahead. Truth is, that I’ve been reluctant to talk […]
Read MoreShalom Friends,There have 2 massive demonstrations in Israel by religious Jews against serving in the IDF. Here are thoughts about the honor of serving as religious Jew in David’s Army in 2014. Please Share to spread another voice! http://mizrachi.org/dodging-draft-god/ Dodging the Draft Because of God?! I am a platoon sergeant in the IDF. I […]
Read MoreMuslim scholar in Jordan attacks ‘Palestinians’ for distorting Koran, Jews given Israel ‘until Day of Judgement.’ By Ari Yashar First Publish: 2/6/2014, 11:00 PM Koran Allah has promised Israel to the Jews — so says Sheikh Ahmad Adwan, a Muslim scholar living in Jordan, who declared on his Facebook page recently that “Palestine” doesn’t exist. Blogger Elder […]
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