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One of the big “misnomers” in Jewish Parshat Shavua, Torah Portion of the Week is calling this week’s parsha, Shlach-Send “The Sin of the Spies.” The very large and honorable delegation sent off to scout out, or more accurately to stake out the Holy Land weren’t called מרגלים miraglim, spies in the Biblical …
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman has come out with so many contradictory statements over the decades he has been on the political scene that the best guess is that he has no real ideology, just raw ambition.
Maybe I should call this post: Jerusalem Post Promotes Intermarriage I got very aggravated on Shavuot after reading the first/main article in the Jerusalem Post’s Holiday Magazine, LOVING THE STRANGER: THE TIMELESS MESSAGE OF THE STORY OF RUTH by Lee Caspi, because Caspi got it all wrong. On my first reading, …
Ambassador Bolton addressing the Ingeborg Rennert Center’s Guardian of Zion Award dinner As I already blogged on A Jewish Grandmother, my husband and I attended the Ingeborg Rennert Center’s Guardian of Zion Award Dinner last night. So, besides the food, the real highlight of the evening was the speech by …
Finally the United States has a president who isn’t totally enamored with Arab terrorist leaders. I can’t remember a time when an American President seemed more comfortable and supporting of Israel rather than the Arabs who want to destroy us. As imperfect/flawed as Donald Trump certainly is, at least he …
… I think that today, the day after Jerusalem Day and three weeks after Israeli Independence Day is just the time to post a special Jerusalem themed edition.
Elisha Davidson and The Shamir by M. R. (Rhonda) Attar is the final book in the futuristic trilogy that could happen in the not so distant future. I reviewed the first two, ELISHA DAVIDSON and the Letters of Fire and ELISHA DAVIDSON and the Ispaklaria. Attar’s trilogy along with Catriel Sugarman’s The …
One of the things so very different here in Israel is that here the bus drivers are “peers,” meaning “regular people,” the sort who can be neighbors, friends, fellow Tanach, Bible aficionados. There are Arab bus drivers, too, as I wrote about here, but they are the exceptions. Unlike the …
Every Rosh Chodesh, besides those on Shabbat, there are Women’s Prayers at Tel Shiloh, Shiloh Hakeduma. We gather at the spot where the Mishkan, Tabernacle was located during Biblical times, before King David declared Jerusalem as the Jewish Capital City. Joshua brought the Tabernacle to Shiloh and made it the Capital …
…our enemy is the antisemitism that has existed from the very beginning of Judaism.
