Michael P. Kramer Nov 12, 2016 1:08 AM Leonard Cohen knew how to write within Jewish tradition without being stymied by it. When I first heard the growling strains of Leonard Cohen’s “You Want It Darker” on the internet about six or seven weeks ago, I felt a very peculiar, tangled kind of pleasure. Hearing … Read more
by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller Thank you for inspiring me, for comforting me, for unifying our people. Dear Western Wall, You’ve been in the news a lot lately. It seems like scarcely a day goes by without someone spreading lies about you. Unesco voted twice in recent weeks on a resolution saying that there was … Read more
BY ILAN BEN ZION Centuries before trying to deny it, Muslims carved Jewish link to Jerusalem into mosqueNewly studied inscription from Mosque of Umar dated to 9th or 10th centuries highlights correlation between Dome of the Rock and biblical Jewish temples A recently studied inscription from a mosque near Hebron offers insight into how, until … Read more
Alyse Lichtenfeld, 25/10/16 11:06 The reason UNESCO is against us is one that we are proud of. Jews in Israel and around the world are in an uproar after the UNESCO passed a resolution rejecting the historical Jewish connection to the Temple Mount and the Western Wall. Naturally, this resolution caused unrest. In fact, the … Read more
Dr. David Lazerson The fault for the lack of peace clearly lies with the Palestinian Arab so-called “leaders.” A more accurate term for them, Ashrawi included, would be the “misleaders.” The recent New York Times Op-Ed piece, “Shimon Peres: The Peacemaker Who Wasn’t” – was filled with the paper’s usual distortions, generalizations, and misleading statements. … Read more
Ron Jager, The Palestinian Authority’s grip on Judea and Samaria is weakening, with its disintegration a distinct possibility. A possible solution. Not long ago, the head of the Palestinian Authority (PA), Mahmoud Abbas, spoke at the UN General Assembly, basing his remarks on three basic Palestinian beliefs that reflect the PA’s inability to be partners … Read more
Prof. Louis René Beres, 28/09/16 06:43 Special to Israel National News: Oslo’s still conspicuous failures must be noted and addressed. If anyone had thought that the core premises of Oslo might still be valid, and that there was still room for a meaningful “Two-State Solution,” Mahmoud Abbas recently offered a sobering response. According to the … Read more
Yoram Ettinger“Israel Hayom,” The July 2015 nuclear agreement with the Ayatollahs of Iran is perceived by the USA as a binding, strategic agreement of peaceful coexistence with Iran. In contrast, the Ayatollahs view it as a tenuous, tactical agreement, advancing an offensive strategy against “the arrogant, infidel American Great Satan,” to be abrogated as is … Read more
