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Category Archives: Israel
Desmond Tutu Vs. Israel
A major university official told me about how unpleasant it was to deal with Desmond Tutu. Out of the dozens of big-name speakers she worked with, he ranked as among the most obnoxious. He didn’t want to take questions but … Continue reading
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Tagged anglican clergyman, archbishop desmond tutu, desmond tutu, freedom flotilla, israeli blockade, porgy and bess
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Israel’s Housing Prices Spike
Why does real estate increase in price when Jews move into a neighborhood? Israel has ridden out the great recession better than almost any Western country. The Los Angeles Times reports: The surge is an unexpected side effect of the … Continue reading
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Tagged bank of israel, benchmark interest rate, financial meltdown, lebanon war, palestinian uprising, unexpected side effect
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Israeli Racism
In follow-up to this blog post, I want you to read this by Steven Plaut on JewishPress.com: Allow us to introduce you to young Kochav Segal Halevi. The 26-year-old Israeli is receiving death threats. In fact, he had to go … Continue reading
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Tagged arab neighborhood, fact jews, israeli racism, jewish racism, steven plaut, upper nazareth
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Renting To Non-Jews
I think the Torah tradition would be solidly behind the banning rabbis on this one, even though it does not sound democratic. Much of Arab Israel will not rent to Jews. Most traditional Jews living anywhere in the world are … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Rabbis
Tagged benjamin netanyahu, chief rabbis, jewish neighborhoods, minister benjamin netanyahu, pardes hannah, petah tikva, political correctness, prime minister benjamin, rabbi ovadia yosef, rabbi shlomo aviner, thorn in your side, torah tradition
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Yisroel Pensack: 40 Die in Chanukah Forest Fire in Israel in Country’s ‘Biggest and Deadliest’ Blaze
The New York Times reports: JERUSALEM — A fire raging in a northern Israel forest on Thursday has left at least 40 people dead, caused the evacuation of thousands of people, burned some kibbutz houses to the ground and prompted … Continue reading
Posted in Aish HaTorah, Circumcision, Greece, Israel, Judaism, New York Times, R. Ari Kahn, Sabbath, Torah, Yisroel Pensack
Tagged chanukah, fatal, forest fire, Givat Ze'ev, hebrew calendar, holy land, Jerusalem, Kislev, Nadav and Abihu, Rafi Alkaly, rosh chodesh, sons of Aaron, Syrian-Greek empire, Tevet
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