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.
Massive Demonstrations Shake Turkey
Posted on: June 3rd, 2013
InDepth → Analysis → Rubin ReportsDemonstrators charged that police undercover agents entered the protest areas, threw stones, and then went back behind the police lines.
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Posted on: June 3rd, 2013
InDepth → Op-EdsIn the 2011 Census, Christianity was still the largest religious group in England and Wales with 33.2 million people (59% of the population).
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Palestinians Threaten their Own Businessmen
Posted on: June 2nd, 2013
InDepth → Columns → Khaled Abu ToamehThey have begun threatening businessmen who want to work with Israeli counterparts.
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Turkey, Israel, and Syria: Why Things are Going Wrong
Posted on: June 2nd, 2013
InDepth → Analysis → Rubin ReportsPut simply, who are the friends of Israel in the region and who are the foes?
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Gay Jews: Hatred Is Not Halacha
Posted on: June 1st, 2013
InDepth → Letters To The EditorOthers have always accused us of sinister plots to corrupt or control the broader society.
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Orthodox Jews Should Not March Alongside the LGBT Sunday
Posted on: May 31st, 2013
InDepth → Letters To The EditorThe understanding that was maintained for two decades has been overturned.
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Palestinians: Kerry Trying to Bribe Us to “Sell Out”
Posted on: May 31st, 2013
InDepth → Columns → Khaled Abu ToamehKerry's plan to boost the Palestinian economy has hardly impressed the Palestinian Authority leadership.
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The ‘Them Vs. Us’ Shtetl Mentality Protects Sexual Predators
Posted on: May 31st, 2013
InDepth → Op-EdsAsk the Catholic Church how it feels about that.
Who’s Calling the Shots at the Temple Mount?
Posted on: May 29th, 2013
InDepth → Columns → Moshe Feiglin“This area is under Muslim sovereignty,” the senior officer on the Temple Mount said to me. “I thought that we were in Jerusalem, the capital of Israel,” I answered, as I set out on a series of letter-writing campaigns and meetings with the chief of Israel police, the attorney general and the minister for internal security.
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Posted on: May 29th, 2013
InDepth → Columns → Focus on Israel/Dov GilorThe Israeli Parliament is usually controlled by a coalition of different political parties because no one party receives enough votes to have a majority. Unlike in the U.S., where there are two major political parties and one of the two political parties commands a majority of the seats in the Senate and/or in the House, in Israel the government is composed of many, many small political parties, each pushing its own agenda.
Posted on: May 29th, 2013
InDepth → Op-EdsForty-six years ago, in the first week of June, Israel stunned the world when it wasn’t looking. Four years later, Israel stunned me when I wasn’t looking.
Will ‘Terrorism’ be Redefined to Placate Israeli Leftists?
Posted on: May 29th, 2013
InDepth → Op-EdsAmerican news headlines over the past few weeks have focused on political targeting by the Internal Revenue Service of conservative groups. But Israel is experiencing its own form of political targeting by the state. The attorney general is leading an initiative to have a small group of radical juveniles who engage in mischief declared a terrorist organization.
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Did the Chinese Communists Really Save Jews Fleeing the Holocaust?
Posted on: May 29th, 2013
InDepth → Op-EdsDuring his visit to China last month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recalled that the city of Shanghai was “one of the few places that opened its gates” to Jews fleeing Hitler. Officials of the Chinese Communist government, standing nearby, beamed with pleasure at the expectation that people all over the world would read how their regime rescued Jews.
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Posted on: May 29th, 2013
InDepth → EditorialWe proudly salute those Jewish organizations that have rallied in support of the victims of last week’s devastating tornado that destroyed a large swath of the Oklahoma City region. As we reported last week, though there are relatively few Jews who live in the area, Jewish groups are providing an array of assistance.
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Posted on: May 29th, 2013
InDepth → EditorialPresident Obama’s speech on counterterrorism last Thursday at the National Defense University was one of the more impressive he has delivered while in the White House. Indeed, in discussing a reevaluation of how to fight what we all have come to refer to as “the war on terror,” he eloquently identified some profound issues.
Posted on: May 29th, 2013
InDepth → Columns → Louis Rene BeresMany readers have probably seen the film “Sarah’s Key,” a powerful 2010 movie that reminds its viewers of overwhelming French collaboration with the Nazis. Even today it seems widely believed that France carried on more or less heroically under the German occupation, and that the 1942 roundups of Jews in occupied France must have been carried out by the SS or Gestapo directly. In fact, however, as “Sarah’s Key” instructs in understated yet utterly hideous detail, these roundups were executed, more or less enthusiastically, by the regular French police.
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InDepth → EditorialReports that the Obama administration targeted the records of reporters in an effort to determine who in government leaked secret information about a Yemeni bomb plot and a CIA report on North Korea would almost be amusing if the implications weren’t so troubling. Leaking information seems to be a forte of his administration – mainly, it seems, when the image of the president is thereby enhanced.
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