BY VICTOR SHARPE, AMERICAN THINKER— In the 1921 hit song, The Sheikh of Araby, there is one line that goes as follows, “…While you’re asleep, into your tent I’ll creep.” Of course the song was referring to the sheikh who romantically pursued the headstrong British…
BY CHARLES GARCIA, CNN— Today marks the 508th anniversary of the death of Christopher Columbus. Everybody knows the story of Columbus, right? He was an Italian explorer from Genoa who set sail in 1492 to enrich the Spanish monarchs with gold and spices from the…
BY RABBI SHRAGA SIMMONS, AISH It is ironic that Shavuot is such a little-known holiday. Because in fact, Shavuot commemorates the single most important event in Jewish history ― the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai. Shavuot is the culmination of the seven-week-long “counting…
By JERRY GORDON, ICONOCLAST— Yom Yerushalayim Day, the 45th Commemoration of the Reunification of Jerusalem This evening in Israel begins the commemoration of Yom Yerushalayim, Jerusalem Day, the 28th of Iyar in the Hebrew Calendar. The occasion marks the 45th anniversary of the reunification of…
By CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST — In recent years, poll after poll has shown that majority of Israelis do not believe that two-state paradigm will bring peace. Two weeks ago, US Congressman Joe Walsh published an op-ed in the The Washington Times in which he called…
JPOST.COM STAFF– Hamas prime minister tells int’l delegation in Gaza, “we will not recognize Israel,” according to Hamas-affiliate Al-Resalah. Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh told an international pro-Palestinian delegation on Friday that there is no future for Israel “on the land of Palestine,” Gaza news…
“We have never been the same since the day on which the voice of God overwhelmed us at Sinai….The Torah is not the wisdom but the destiny of Israel, not our literature but our essence.”—Abraham Joshua Heschel, God in Search of Man
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