After much talk and handwringing, Israel finally moves on Rafah. What that move may entail is yet to be seen. What is in no doubt is the necessity to eliminate all Hamas personnel and its supporters. The challenges facing Israel as it mounts an offensive action must be overcome if the State is to avoid […]
Continue readingIf the Jewish State is to remain essentially Jewish, it must continue to acknowledge G-d and religion. If the government does not honour their indispensable place in the nation’s life, this neglect will marginalise them. Of course, the cultural currents that have undermined Judaism in the last seventy-six years may appear to some sectors of […]
Continue readingWe live in momentous times, in a historical point that reaches out to all who still believe in their nation’s culture, history, language, values and societal institutions that have been built up over centuries of trial and error. The battle lines have been drawn up in the streets of London, Paris, New York, Sydney, Tel […]
Continue readingWhat happened to the pre-Oslo Accords policy of no negotiation with terrorists, once considered morally indefensible and unproductive, resulting in more terrorism and legitimizing the terrorist’s cause? For more than forty years, Israel has chosen the short-term expediency of giving in to terrorist demands and, by doing so, perpetuating the cycle of abductions of Israeli […]
Continue readingYou can take the Jew out of the Ghetto, but it’s much harder to take the Ghetto out of the Jew, if not impossible. This unfortunate Ghetto mentality has been a part of the Jewish psyche since the days of Egyptian slavery. Two-thirds of all Jews in Egypt chose to stay rather than leave Egypt […]
Continue readingThe Jew is once again being portrayed as the eternal outsider. Conveniently smeared as not quite one of us whose loyalty is suspect, whose morality is corrupt, and whose honesty is brought into question. The Jewish antagonists are peddling a pernicious breed of bigotry that works to undermine the Jews’s right to exist, and before […]
Continue readingToday, more than ever, Jews are confronted with choice versus obligation. Through their actions, they can choose mediocrity or greatness. These choices and obligations depend on the individual and the collective; their outcomes rest with the Jew and the Jewish people. Since 1948, these choices and obligations have become a stark reality for the Jewish […]
Continue readingThe world has been saying sorry to Jews for the Holocaust that struck European Jewry 79 years ago, and they’re tired of doing so. Their moral exhaustion has given way to old-fashioned anti-Semitism. The optimism of the years after the Holocaust are evaporating before our very eyes. The peril Jews now find themselves in is […]
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