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July 2, 2009
Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski: The hallmark of a person
Abe Novick: Up, up, and aliya
July 1, 2009
Rabbi Avi Shafran: The Road Taken
The Kosher Gourmet
by Marialisa Calta: Get into the holiday spirit with these Star-Spangled desserts
June 30, 2009
Rabbi Binyomin Ginsberg: What makes a great parent?
Caroline B. Glick: Ideologue-in-Chief
June 29, 2009
The Jewish Ethicist
by Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir: Beware of 'Caveat Emptor'
Steven Emerson: ACLU pushing for more money for Hamas
June 26, 2009
Rabbi Yoni Posnick: Learn the secret to a healthy marriage from a scriptural villain
Caroline B. Glick: Barack Obama vs. International Law
June 25, 2009
Rabbi Shimon Apisdorf: The Absurd Power of Truth
Jordan "Gorf" Gorfinkle's strip:
Everything's Relative
June 24, 2009
Rabbi Yonason Goldson: Advancement of technology is a wake-up call for humanity
The Kosher Gourmet by Andrea Weigl: Summer on a stick: Making frozen treats can be easy, creative and fun
June 23, 2009
Martin M. Bodek: 'On Surnames': And so, We Begin
Caroline B. Glick: The Obama Effect
June 22, 2009
The Jewish Ethicist by Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir: Working for a corrupt firm
N. Richard Greenfield : Where are American Jews?
June 19, 2009
Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski: Emotion v. intellect
Caroline B. Glick: Israel's rare opportunity
June 18, 2009
Jonathan Rosenblum: Sometimes it is more essential to define the nature of evil than good
Jordan "Gorf" Gorfinkle's strip:
Everything's Relative
June 17, 2009
Rabbi Yonason Goldson: The Language of Confusion
The Kosher Gourmet by Linda Gassenheimer: Nothing pleases Dad more than a thick, juicy onion-smothered steak. Add home-Baked Potato Chips and …
June 16, 2009
The Jewish Ethicist by Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir: Career v. Careersism
Caroline B. Glick: Obama's losing streak and Israel
Richard Z. Chesnoff: Palestinians: Never Missing an Opportunity …
June 15, 2009
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu: How Judea and Samaria can become 'Palestine'
Daniel Pipes: Where Netanyahu's speech failed
June 12, 2009
Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski: Some big thoughts about not acting so big
Caroline B. Glick:
Obama's High Commissioner
June 11, 2009
Victor Davis Hanson: Our historically challenged President
Mitch Albom: Beware the True Believers
Lewis Grossberger: What we learn from the new Hitler photos
June 10, 2009
Mort Zuckerman: What Obama and his advisors won't -- or refuse to -- grasp about Israel and the Muslim world
The Kosher Gourmet
by Steve Petusevsky Lotsa pasta: Tips, techniques and (amazing) taste
June 9, 2009
Anne Bayefsky: Obama's stunning offense to Israel and the Jewish people
Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.: America's first Muslim president?
June 8, 2009
The Jewish Ethicist by Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir: Merchant must take responsibility for careless shopper?
Mark Steyn: A superpower that feeds on mediocrity cannot survive for long on leftovers from the past
Richard Z. Chesnoff: How do you say 'kumbaya' in Arabic?
June 5, 2009
Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski: In quest of spirituality
Caroline B. Glick: Obama's Arabian dreams
Charles Krauthammer: The Settlements Myth
June 4, 2009
Paul Greenberg: The War Comes to Little Rock
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by Judy Hevrdejs: Splash it on! Tap your inner jazz musician and improvise when stirring up a vinaigrette
June 3, 2009
The Jewish Ethicist by Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir: Q. Should terrible teacher be exposed?
Jonathan Rosenblum: The Israel Lobby: Missing in Action
June 2, 2009
Dennis Prager: The Speech President Obama Won't Dare Give in Egypt
Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.: Pressure on Israel raises war risk
Oct. 29, 2003
Mortimer B. Zuckerman: Graffiti On History's Walls (MUST-READ!)
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Jewish World Review
June 19, 2003
/ 19 Sivan, 5763
IS THE WORLD BLIND, IN DENIAL OR JUST APATHETIC?
By
Rod Dreher
http://www.jewishworldreview.com |
A French Jewish friend e-mailed the other day from Paris, hours after an Islamist
fanatic blew up himself and 15 Israelis on a Jerusalem bus. "When I heard of the
new suicide bombing, I asked myself if maybe all Jews should turn into pianists in
order to be safe," he wrote. "If you're a World War II Polish Jewish pianist fighting
for his life in a movie, people will give you an Oscar and rush to theaters to watch
your story unfold. If you're an Israeli Jew fighting for his life for real, people will call
you a murderer."
His bleak humor notwithstanding, none of this is a joke to my correspondent, who
writes of Jewish friends and colleagues quietly making plans to emigrate to Canada,
Australia and the United States. Jews and their institutions in France are being
attacked by anti-Semites throughout the country, with Muslim thugs beating Jews in
the streets and holding pro-Palestinian demonstrations at which they chant, "Death
to the Jews!" The French establishment, especially the French media, prefers to
look away or to perform a collective Gallic shrug.
Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is denounced for sending his troops
against the leadership of Hamas, the Islamic fundamentalist terror organization that
carries out suicide bombings of Israeli civilians as part of its ongoing campaign to
ethnically cleanse the Middle East of Jews and establish an Islamic state. Hamas
wants nothing to do with the road map to peace. Here are the recent words of one
Hamas leader: "The enemies of Allah ... are cowards. They crave life, while the
Muslims crave martyrdom. The martyrdom operations" that is, suicide bombings
"that shock can ensure that horror is sowed in the [enemies'] hearts. There is no
other way. ... [T]here is a need for people who yearn for Paradise, and the shortest
way to Paradise is death for Allah."
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Let your voice be heard! To express your concerns about the administration's plan for the Holy Land, you may contact
President George W. Bush by fax: (202) 456-2461, (Andrew Card, Chief of Staff)
or by e-mail.
Dr. Condoleeza Rice, National Security Advisor, FAX (202) 456-2883, PHONE (202) 456-9491
Mr. Elliot Abrams, the Director for Near East and North African Affairs, at FAX (202) 456-9120, and by phone through his secretary Joanna, (202) 456-9121
Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 1000 Defense Pentagon, Washington, DC 20301-1000 or by e-mail form:
http://www.defenselink.mil/
Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense, 1010 Defense Pentagon, Washington, DC 20301-1010 or by e-mail form
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The man who wrote those words on the Hamas Web site is Abdel-Aziz Rantisi, who
narrowly missed dying for Allah the other day when an Israeli missile hit his car in
Gaza. More's the pity. When a man like Abdel-Aziz Rantisi broadcasts to the world
his intention to keep sending suicide bombers onto your buses and into your cafes,
you don't negotiate with him. Negotiations are something that happens between
reasonable parties in a conflict, and that never can include religious fanatics who
want to exterminate your entire people.
President Bush said he was "deeply troubled" by the Israeli action against Hamas.
Well, I'm deeply troubled, too. I'm deeply troubled that the Israelis, for the sake of a
putative peace settlement, are expected to watch armed Islamic militants turn their
citizens to ash and not defend themselves. I'm deeply troubled that elite Western
opinion is quick to find reasons to excuse or overlook Palestinian perfidy, corruption
and savagery. (How many Rachel Corries do you suppose are riding those
Jerusalem buses as human shields?) I am deeply troubled that the American
administration is placing its confidence on the idea that the Palestinian Authority has
any intention of disarming its militants which, if anyone cares, the president's road
map called on the Palestinian Authority to do by the end of last month. I am deeply
troubled that so many Palestinians hate the Jews more than they love their own
lives and children.
I am deeply troubled by how much we in the West have forgotten. We know we
know where the kind of bloodcurdling hatred of Jews celebrated by Hamas and
other radical Islamists leads. The Holocaust wasn't an Oscar-winning movie. "We
now hear of Jewish friends gathering information on emigrating to Canada, Australia
and the U.S.A.," my French friend writes. "They do it quietly, calmly; they know
what's coming, and this time, they don't want to be taken by surprise." If you think
the radical Islamists will stop at the Jews, which is the gamble the French seem to
be taking, you don't read their material, and you didn't learn a thing from Sept. 11.
Above all, I am deeply troubled by the reality that many of us, safe in our American
and European homes, with our easy moral equivalences, are willing to be complicit
in the genocidal murder of Jews by hate-filled fascists. Again, so soon.
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