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A virtual tour and a video for Tisha Be’Av afternoon
As the fast of Tisha Be’Av wears on we start to emerge from our mourning practices. Here are a couple of videos to ease the transit from sadness to normality. The first is not exactly a video. It is a...
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Palestinian Anti-Semitism in the guise of anti-Israel incitement
The other day we saw how Palestinian brainwashing and incitement inculcates a deep and abiding hatred of Israel into the next generation even in far-away Canada. Unfortunately for all of us, the...
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Good News Friday
Despite the depressing nature of my previous post, and most of my other posts this week, as always there are bright spots of good news that deserve an airing before Shabbat. This is especially true...
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Netanyahu’s Bar-Ilan speech: refusal to recognize Jewish state is at the core...
On Sunday, Prime Minister Netanyahu delivered a very important speech at the Begin-Sadat Center of Bar Ilan University. In a similar speech 4 years ago Netanyahu made the dramatic statement that he...
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Huge rise in Palestinian terrorism and incitement in Jerusalem area
The local Israeli news have been filled in recent days with reports of stone-throwing, molotov cocktails being hurled, car-jacking and general violence by Palestinian Arabs against Israeli Jews,...
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Good News Friday
Another week has rolled around so fast, and it’s time for my next Good News Friday installment. We start with one of my favourite subjects – archaeology. An ancient jug from the First Temple period...
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For in every generation they rise up to destroy us
Two separate acts, committed at opposite ends of the world by two separate people joined by one motivating factor – hatred of Jews and the desire to kill them – threw those words from the Vehi She’amda...
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Yom Yerushalayim 5774 – Jerusalem Reunification Day 2014
Yom Yerushalayim began tonight, marking the 47th anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem, as well as the liberation of Judea, Samaria and the Golan Heights (and the Gaza Strip but that’s another...
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The making of a new blood libel
Yesterday, Israel’s incompetent and criminally inept police, aided and abetted by the media – both international and Israeli – and Israeli politicians all colluded in creating a blood libel against the...
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Yom Kippur 5775 – Gmar Hatima Tova
(Reposting in part from last year) Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is upon us once again, beginning in a few hours time here in Israel, when we will be entering a 25-hour fast with day-long prayer...
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The battle for Jerusalem
Jerusalem has been under fire, both literally and diplomatically, for a long while now, but in recent weeks the situation has deteriorated sharply. If the authorities, i.e Binyamin Netanyahu and his...
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Yehuda Glick shot and wounded, Chickengate, and BDS descends into outright...
I’ll start with some terrible breaking news: Rav Yehuda Glick, the advocate for Jewish prayer rights on the Temple Mount, has been shot and very seriously wounded in Jerusalem: Yehuda Gilck, a leading...
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Outrageous outrage over the Temple Mount
Jerusalem is roiling and seething with Muslim and Arab incitement, riots and deadly violence against Jewish Israelis, something that has been growing and building up since the summer. It started when...
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Countering foreign interference in Israel’s sovereignty
The Western world, including countries, NGOs, and institutions like the EU and the UN, seem to forget that they no longer rule empires and control vassal states around the world, for they have made it...
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Incitement and terror in Jerusalem: two more car attacks: one dead, several...
Once again Palestinian terrorists used their vehicles to try and kill as many Israelis as possible, in two separate incidents today. This afternoon (Wednesday), in an almost copycat attack of the...
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Middle East news catch-up: Iran, Jerusalem, the UN and the Palestinians
Here is a (very) short roundup of news that deserves some attention, but which I missed since I was computerless for a couple of days. As Pete mentioned in his comment on the previous post, Barack...
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Outrages and double standards of the week
Yes, I know the week has barely started but a whole bunch of items caught my attention, and the common thread running through them all is the outrage they stirred up in me, whether for their hypocrisy,...
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Latest terrorism update
While the world worries about ISIS and Israel worries about Iran (as well as ISIS and Hamas and Hezbollah), the “low-level” Palestinian intifada against Israel has been gradually notching up a level....
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Is Netanyahu finally getting serious about tackling Palestinian terrorism?
The low-level Palestinian terrorism that has been plaguing Israelis for years, particularly firebombings, shootings and stonings have been documented on this blog and elsewhere innumerable times;...
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Netanyahu finds his backbone in confronting Palestinian violence
Last week I wondered whether Binyamin Netanyahu was getting more serious about fighting the growing terrorism in Jerusalem, on the Temple Mount, and elsewhere in Israel. Amongst the measures proposed...
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