Two sirens. At 20:00 (8:00pm) last night, the first went on. It marked the beginning of Israel’s Memorial Day for Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terrorism, in which we remember those who lost...
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Lest We Forget
These are words that we hear at least once a year. For those of us who grew up in Jewish day school or in Sunday school, we heard this motto more often. “Lest we forget.” Lest we forget...
Rethinking the Holocaust
Holocaust Remembrance Day breaks my heart. Not only because of all the incredible amounts of pain, suffering, and loss, but because everywhere I look, there is no message in all of this madness. I...
A Present from the US to Israel Just in time for Pesach: Planes
source. From HaAretz: As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was in Washington this week absorbing the full wrath of the Obama administration, the Pentagon and Israel’s defense establishment were...
Finkelstein: The Facts
I was considering calling this post “Finkelstein is an A-hole”, but a very wise person swayed my judgement. We don’t need to name call to win an argument, however fun it may be...
Is Allah a Zionist?
A recent article by Italian Muslim Assembly Secretary General Sheikh Abdul Hadi Palazzi suggests that Allah is. Using quotations from the Quran and the Sunnah, Palazzi argues that Allah supports...
Addendum to News Roundup
Okay, for those who asked for more info on the upcoming Israel episode of The Simpsons, to be broadcast in North America just before erev Pesach. It is titled, “The Greatest Story Ever...
Why aren’t we talking about the real issues?
And the worst part is you didn’t even send over any Michal Negrin as an apology.