In this Shabbat, we will read Parshat Vayeshev, where we see Yosef’s brothers mock him for dreaming of realities they could not comprehend in their worldview. “And they said one unto the other, ‘Behold the dreamer cometh….’ ” Bereshit (Genesis) 37:19. It strikes me that today we see the same inability of some Jews to […]
Continue readingThe Jewish State has lost 27 Israeli civilians to Arab nationalist violence so far in 2022, not counting the three soldiers and one police officer murdered defending Israel. They join the other 28,000+ Jews killed in Israel since the restoration of the Jewish Commonwealth in 1948. The question that needs to be asked is how […]
Continue readingFor the second time, Donald Trump accused America’s Jewish leaders of disloyalty. The first time was in 2019, during the last days of his Presidency, when he said US Jews were disloyal to Israel and that any Jew who votes for a Democrat shows “a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty.” Now he has […]
Continue readingAs the new Netanyahu government moves one more step towards taking over the reins of power, the Left and its fellow travellers are beating the drum over perceived or imagined tensions on the Temple Mount. They accuse the Religious Zionists within the incoming government of fermenting violence and discord amongst the Arab nationalists by threatening […]
Continue readingYair Lapid and Benny Gantz are pursuing a dangerous plan to undermine an elected government before it even takes office. These two failed politicians are in a conspiracy to achieve by stealth what they could not accomplish at the ballot box. They are a threat to Israel’s democracy. They have chosen to act as though […]
Continue readingIsrael’s luny Left and its fellow travellers in the Diaspora are in a state of frenzy at the thought of a Right-wing government influenced by Religious Zionism leading the Jewish State for the next four years. They make outlandish statements accusing the Religious elements within the government of changing the face of the State of […]
Continue readingBezalel Smotrich has finally signed an agreement to be a member of the Netanyahu government. Now the country waits on Shas and United Torah Judaism’s signatures before Israel gets its 37th Knesset. Before we know the final makeup of the incoming government, Mansour Abbas, chairman of the Arab Ra’am party, declares he will never join […]
Continue readingI have just finished reading an article in the Jerusalem Post by Uri Pilichowski on Israel being Jewish and Democratic at the same time. He tackles some of the inherent problems of squaring a Zionist Israel with an inclusive Democracy for all, regardless of religious and ethnic background. In the end, the writer, while accepting […]
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