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Why is the Israeli government pleased? Because the U.N. put out a report that acknowledges that Syria has helped Hizbullah rearm, in violation of UNSCR 1701 and that Hizbullah is not only back to its...

Judean Desert Collage, 70×100 (x2) cm, 1997 I came across Judith Yellin Ginat‘s work and found a lot of it to be interesting. Click on the link to see her biography and some of her work...

The Jerusalem Post gives us an article about Turkish officials placing the blame on Congress’ Armenian genocide bill at the feet of American Jewish groups. In other words, if something bad...

A recent survey conducted by Yediot Aharonot, a newspaper known for some sensationalism but by no means a tabloid, shows that almost a third of Israel’s population believes Yitzhak...

Update, October 17: Now they’re saying it was a translator’s error. I guess I waited all that time but needed to wait one more day. The United Nations on Wednesday blamed an...

Okay, I was going to write a clever parable about Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree, where as you all know, the selfish boy takes and takes and takes while the selfless tree gives and gives...

Yesterday (today for those of us outside Israel), we concluded the reading of the torah, and began anew. It always suprises me how suddenly the death of Moses comes about, and how sad it is he cannot...

David Horovitz from the Jerusalem Post on Ahmadinejad’s Columbia speech: But it wasn’t all big lies from Ahmadinejad. He didn’t deny his determination to question the fundamental...