Pioneers of the Periphery: Olim of the South Got that pioneering spirit? You’re invited to help build Israel’s periphery by planting roots in southern soil with Nefesh B’Nefesh.
Posted on: February 25th, 2009
InDepth → Front PageThe ritual is as familiar as preparing your taxes, and about as tedious. An American president leaves office and Israel is asked to make territorial concessions in one "final" attempt to make peace; a new American president takes office and Israel is asked to make territorial concessions in order to jump-start his peace efforts; Israel prevails militarily in a conflict and is asked to make territorial concessions as a "good-will gesture" to the vanquished; a new Israeli government comes to power is asked to make territorial concessions to show its good faith.
Posted on: February 11th, 2009
InDepth → Front PageEditor's Note: Several years ago, the bestselling novelist Christopher Buckley, accompanied by his late father, the writer and iconic conservative intellectual William F. Buckley Jr., visited Auschwitz. He had never published his haunting account of that experience, but the current furor over Bishop Richard Williamson's claim that the Holocaust is largely a myth and "not one" Jew was gassed at Auschwitz compelled him to do so on The Daily Beast website, where he is a regular contributor.
Orchards and Vineyards and Nature Divine
Posted on: February 4th, 2009
InDepth → Front PageDelectable, delicious, delightful - and available to us in a smorgasbord of flavors and consistencies.
Posted on: January 28th, 2009
InDepth → Front PageThe great untold story of Operation Cast Lead was the level of euphoria and national unity that gripped Israel.
Posted on: January 21st, 2009
InDepth → Front PageThe world's reaction to Israel's defensive assault on Gaza was predictable and quite telling - predictable in its hostility and revealing in its utter contempt for the lives and redemptive process of the Jewish people.
Posted on: January 14th, 2009
InDepth → Front PageThe war of aggression waged by Hamas, against which Israel has commenced a robust response, must not be seen in a vacuum.
The Changing Face Of Boro Park
Posted on: January 7th, 2009
InDepth → Front PageOn a windy day in Boro Park, if you listen closely you will hear the trees ( the few that survived the timberman's axe) rustling praises to their Creator - some in nusach Ashkenaz, others in nusach Sfard - but all rising to the heavens in unison with their human co-daveners.
Return of the Bad Old Middle East
Posted on: December 31st, 2008
InDepth → Front PageFor most of the past 16 years or so, a seemingly benign specter has been haunting the world - namely, the notion that there exists a New Middle East, one that plays by rules very different from those in the Bad Old Middle East.
Posted on: December 24th, 2008
InDepth → Front PageIlluminating melancholic winter nights, Chanukah flames have been lit all over the world for better than two thousand years - whether in menorahs of resplendent silver or humble wood and metal, opulent homes or dreary surroundings, days of glory or times of oppression - commemorating our spiritual ascent from the darkness of the Syrian-Greek decadence.
The Inner Miracle Of the Oil: Chanukah as Precursor to Redemption
Posted on: December 17th, 2008
InDepth → Front PageThe Chanukah story as we know it describes a wicked tyrant, Jewish resistance, and the miracle of oil that burned for eight days instead of one.
A Dominican Haven For Jews Fleeing Hitler
Posted on: December 3rd, 2008
InDepth → Front PageToday the Dominican Republic welcomes thousands of sun-worshippers to Sos?a, its popular North-Coast beach resort.
Posted on: November 26th, 2008
InDepth → Front PageIt's Saturday evening at the Broadwood Hotel and well over a thousand Philadelphians have flocked to the grand ballroom.
Posted on: November 19th, 2008
InDepth → Front PageIn September I attended a special screening of the movie "Defiance" at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Manhattan. The film attempts to depict the formation of the Bielski partisans and some of their early exploits in the dense forests of Belorussia during the Holocaust.
Posted on: November 12th, 2008
InDepth → Front PageAlbert Einstein's letter on God, in which he described the Bible as "pretty childish," sold not long ago for more than $400,000.
How The Media Spun Campaign ’08
Posted on: November 5th, 2008
InDepth → Front PageBased on her interview with Sen. Joe Biden, we may assume that WFTV (Orlando) Anchor Barbara West: 1. Did not graduate from a school of communications, 2. Will never receive an award from the Society of Professional Journalists, 3. Is unlikely to be employed by The New York Times in the foreseeable future, and 4. Will soon be working with Joe the Plumber, installing bathroom fixtures.
Two Candidates Walk Into A Bar… Comedy and Presidential Politics
Posted on: October 29th, 2008
InDepth → Front PageFor days after the Al Smith Memorial Dinner, held in mid-October at the Waldorf Astoria, the media buzzed with clips of presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama delivering hilarious routines that put many professional comedians to shame.
Putting the Oy Back into ‘Ahoy’
Posted on: October 15th, 2008
InDepth → Front PageThey did not sing "Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of Manischewitz," nor do they ever seem to appear in any of the Disney films about pirates in the Caribbean.
Posted on: September 17th, 2008
InDepth → Front PageThe day Israel released the baby-murdering Arab terrorist Samir Kuntar was without doubt the most disgraceful in modern Jewish history.
Posted on: August 27th, 2008
InDepth → Front PageLyndon Baines Johnson, born 100 years ago this week, came from a part of the country where Jews were about as common as a herd of cattle in Manhattan.
1Celebrity Airheads and the Terrorists Who Love Them
Posted on: July 9th, 2008
InDepth → Front Page"Hi, I'm Richard Gere and I'm speaking for the entire world.
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