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- Good news in Israel
- Biden: If you oppose my plan to nationalize elections—seizing control from the states—you’re a knuckle-dragging, “Bull Connor” racist
- "Let this be our official notice. We will exercise our right to defend ourselves if you try to attack us. We will use proportionate force that a reasonable person would use to defend their family"
- "Frames that divide the world into the oppressors and the oppressed create 15 times more antisemites while reinforcing sectarian division and hate on both the left and the right."
- Gérard Araud, former ambassador to Israel, dismissive of Trump plan, calls West Bank “an apartheid state”
- “American Jews who do not feel a real connection to the Jewish collective are going to see that connection as an increasingly troublesome burden which they will try to make less visible as long as they can safely integrate totally into the surrounding society"
- “Wiesenthal Center and NGO Monitor slam Germany for ignoring Iran’s genocidal antisemitism”
- Israel Is the Victim of Mohammed’s War Against the Jews
Category Archives: Politics
The Israel Sermon Rabbis Should Dare to Deliver
HUFFINGTON POST by Gil Troy October 2, 2014 The New York Times on September 22, claims that rabbis have a hard time speaking to their congregants about Israel these days. Really? Is it that difficult to talk about Israel in … Continue reading
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Free Speech: A Motorway Pile-Up of Moral Confusion
GATESTONE by Douglas Murray October 2, 2014 Who has the “right” to talk about Islam? The question arose thanks to the response of a Muslim student society at an American university. Last week saw the latest in the apparently interminable … Continue reading
Ehr Daw 2014 – Given on Rosh Hashanah, 5775
CONGREGATION ETZ CHAIM BLOG Rabbi Shalom Lewis September 29, 2014 I thought that maybe I’d start with a rendition of Paul McCartney’s plaintive masterpiece “Yesterday”… “Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away. Now it looks as though they’re here … Continue reading
Shifting Alliances in the Middle East
COMMENTARY by Ofir Haivry October 1, 2014 The old Middle-Eastern border has collapsed. Like a glacier that has been undermined gradually by hidden trickles from within and then subjected to a final spring thaw, it has come crashing down. The … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Politics
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Netanyahu’s Truth in a Den of Lies
FRONT PAGE MAG by Joseph Klein September 30, 2014 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a powerful and sobering speech to the United Nations General Assembly on September 29th. He said he came from Jerusalem to speak on behalf of … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Nazis, UN Human Rights Council, United Nations General Assembly
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The New Year, Israel, and Two Powerful Sermons
COMMENTARY by John Podhoretz September 29, 2014 As Jews gathered last week to celebrate Rosh Hashanah, one major question haunting the American Jewish community was this: How would its rabbis handle the issue of the summer’s war and the response … Continue reading
Mahmoud Abbas’s dangerous grandstanding
WASHINGTON POST by Editorial Board September 29, 2014 THE GOOD news from the Middle East is that the truce between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip has held for a month, and Hamas appears ready to make concessions to … Continue reading
UPCOMING EVENT The North Shore Jewish Community Candidate Forum
BJBE and 23 other Jewish organizations are hosting The North Shore Jewish Community Candidate Forum Candidates for the 9th and 10th Congressional Districts, Illinois Attorney General, Comptroller and Treasurer, and Illinois State Senate District 30 and State Representative Districts 15, … Continue reading
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Tagged BJBE, Bob Dold, North Shore Jewish Community Candidate Forum
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It’s a fiction, Israel really hasn’t silenced dissent
HAARETZ by Noah Efron September 29, 2014 A New York Times op-ed suggests that a right-wing cabal has shut us Israeli leftists up, and we can do little do about it. But we haven’t been silenced. We’ve just failed to … Continue reading
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Tagged Gideon Levy, Gila Almagor, Haaretz, Mairav Zonszein, New York Times, Orna Banai
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ArchitectGuy on Israel 