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    A Gentile’s Guide To Chanukah, A Jew’s Guide To Christmas

    America is supposed to be a “melting pot,” however one sad thing about the end of the year holidays is most Jews do not understand Christmas, and most Christians don’t get Hanukkah.

    Our Coming Election: The End for a Tragic Hero

    he fact that Netanyahu managed to accomplish anything at all in his last three years as PM – and actually he accomplished quite a lot – despite the harassment tells much about his competence. But this is no way to run a country.

    Why the World Cares about 1982 Sabra and Shatila Massacre

    I am ashamed that the loss of Arab lives seems to matter to the world only if Israel can be blamed, even indirectly. Mostly, I am ashamed of what this event, like so many others in the history of the Israel-Arab conflict, says about the world’s bias against the only Jewish state.

    ‘Down With Hanukah!’ – By Rabbi Meir Kahane

    "Not only is Hanukah really a foolish and unnecessary holiday, it is also one that is dangerously fanatical and illiberal."

    Thoughts on the Jersey City Shooting

    Israelis were shocked by Jersey City. Not so much by the attack, but by the response of the local community, captured in a video which appears to show local residents blaming the Jews themselves for the attack, and expressing vicious hatred of them.

    The War Against Israel and Jewish Civilians

    An average Jew is three times more likely to suffer a hate crime than an average black, and twice as likely to be attacked as an average Muslim

    The New York Times Goes Cockamamie

    {Originally posted to the author's website} Only in the New York Times would one find such a cockamamie* defense of anti-Semitism ...critics have complained that such...

    Getting Respect

    Everything we do in Israel either adds to the sum total of respect we get or subtracts from it. .. So it is very important for us to not only win wars, kill terrorists, and in general crush our enemies as viciously as possible, but our messaging must project strength, competence, and even aggressiveness. We must avoid the image of victimhood

    My Jewish Allergy to Germans

    I have a thing about Germans. I cannot stand to see or hear them. It isn’t intellectual, not something thought out, but a gut reaction: it literally turns my stomach to be in proximity to them, to Germans, even through the media of film.

    Trump’s IAC speech is a Rorschach Test of the Jewish left

    Let's be clear: the only people who are upset over a President, or anyone, saying that people should love Israel more are people who hate Israel.

    Larry’s Letters: Israel “is built on the idea that Jews are supreme to everyone...

    So if you have to compare Judaism and Islam to see which ideology is truly supremacist, Islam would win hands down.

    City Bans Throwing Snowballs: The Wussification Of Our Kids Continues

    I get the arrows, stones, missiles, or projectiles, but snowballs? Wausau banned throwing snowballs. Do they really believe that a snowball is in the same category as a missile?

    Coalition Politics: How To Banish Avigdor Lieberman to The Sidelines

    Inexplicably, Lieberman has enough followers to keep him in the Knesset with sufficient MKs to stymie every possible coalition.

    The Conspiracy To Strip Israel Of Its Jewish Character

    While we don’t agree with all of his policies, especially with his resistance to further settlement building, he is a guardian of Eretz Yisrael. If the Left rises to power, they are going to slice up Judea and Samaria like a watermelon….

    How America’s Polygamy Ban Blocked Muslim Immigration

    American leaders of a century past could not reconcile themselves to Islamic polygamy. Yet our modern leaders have reconciled themselves to the Islamic mass murder of Americans.

    The Partition Resolution: A Paper Triumph

    So if the partition resolution does not constitute a justification in international law for the establishment of a Jewish state in the territory of the former British Mandate, what does?

    A Coup in Israel

    The question is, "Who determines who will run the country. Will it be the voters or the lawyers?"

    Hanan Ashrawi: UN is too PRO-Israel!

    Imagine how ANTI-ISRAEL she would want the UN to be?

    Warren, Sanders, and Biden All Preach Diversity–They Don’t Live it

    Biden, Sanders, and Warren preach diversity. But if you want to see what they really believe, go look at where they live.

    The Fourth ‘No’ of the Khartoum Resolution: No Return of Palestinian Refugees

    What’s more, the no peace/ recognition/ negotiations with Israel not only prevented any pathway to peace for all the Arab actors with Israel, it slammed the door shut on Palestinian refugees having any chance of returning to homes in Israel.

    Bibi’s Not Perfect, But He’s Not Corrupt

    This anti-Netanyahu coup is not only dangerous for the State of Israel, but it's dangerous for the world.

    Inspiration from Zion: Should Netanyahu Resign?

    These are the 3 reasons I not only hope to God Netanyahu doesn’t resign but that he also continues to serve as Israel’s Prime Minister.

    EoZ Columnist Symposium: Should Netanyahu resign? Part 1 Daled Amos, Varda Epstein, Vic Rosenthal

    As far as who can do Bibi's job - at the moment, no one, but Bibi would be gone one way or another eventually, and I have faith in Israel's democracy

    Jewish Communities in Judea and Samaria: Questions AND Answers

    It’s been suggested that Trumps' pro-Israel acts are all cheap, merely “symbolic,” and have little effect on the ground. But if this is so, then why didn’t previous presidents act?

    Larry’s Letters: Canada Condemns Israel’s Presence in Jerusalem and Characterizes it as Occupied Palestinian...

    Do you really think that a UN resolution will get Israel to give up the city that is mentioned over a thousand times in Jewish holy books but not once in the Koran?

    Defiant Settlers: We Will Live Anywhere We Want In G-d’s Land

    What the police didn’t know was that a hidden camera recorded all their actions, including the curses and blows they aimed at the defenseless youth who stated over and over that they were violating his G-d-given right to live wherever he pleased in the Land of Israel.

    ‘I Don’t Have Strength Anymore For The Bomb Shelter’: A Personal Account of Living...

    We treated more than 40 people suffering from anxiety attacks, several who had to be hospitalized.

    Larry’s Letters: U of T Graduate Student’s Union Rejects Kosher Food because it is...

    If you really cared about human rights, why have you not voted against Chinese food to protest China’s decimation of the culture and religious infrastructure of its Muslim minority. Why are you not as interested in China’s Muslims as you are in Israel’s Muslims? I think I have the answer and it’s not complimentary to your group.

    It’s that Stupid Politically Correct Holiday Season Again

    Let me suggest that if Matthias and his sons were alive today, they would be fighting every Jew who wanted a nine-foot menorah next to a Christmas tree, a star of David next to a cross, or even the massive multi-holiday Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanzaa, Festivus and Winter Solstice display.

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