Non-Jewish Republican candidates outflanking Jewish Democrats in pro-Israel positions.
This election highlights a growing phenomenon: non-Jewish Republican candidates outflanking Jewish Democrats in pro-Israel positions.
When an Orthodox Jewish, kippa-wearing Democratic candidate might lose a congressional election in the most Jewish (and 75% Democratic) congressional district in America – a seat occupied by Democrats for nearly a century – to a non-Jewish Republican, something significant is going on. And Golda Koppelman knows what that something is.
New York’s 9th Congressional District (Brooklyn and Queens) is gearing up for the September 13, 2011 special election to fill the seat vacated by disgraced Democrat Anthony Weiner. Koppelman, a Holocaust survivor who has lived her American life in the district, is a devout Jewish mother and grandmother, with family in both Israel and America. Like many of her generation, she’s also a devout Democrat. Until now.
“I have never voted for a Republican in my life”...
Retrieving American Jewish Fiction
Way back when I read The Rise of David Levinsky and Call it Sleep. I loved them both. I don’t know if one had to be born in America to be considered an American Jewish writer. If not, I certainly would have included books by I.B. Singer and his brother I.J. Singer which had to be translated into English from the original Yiddish. And how about Sholem Asch’s “East River”? Bellow, I could never understand.
By D.G. Myers
The Jewish “boom” in American writing in the 60′s was ignited by Bellow, Roth, and Malamud—reeled off in that order as if they were a firm of Jewish accountants. Soon there were so many American Jewish writers, enjoying so much critical praise, that Truman Capote complained about the “Jewish mafia in American letters,” while John Updike (than whom no novelist more goyishe) wrote three short-story cycles in which he pretended to be a Jewish writer. The roots of American Jewish literature go much further back,...
Rollback the Muslim Brotherhood
By Frank Gaffney Jr.
In recent weeks, we have been put on notice repeatedly: Absent a fundamental course correction, America will go the way of Europe and others before it, succumbing to an insidious totalitarian doctrine known as shariah whose purpose, in the words of its prime practitioners – the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) – is to “destroy Western civilization from within.”
Hurricanes, earthquakes and fiscal crises are preoccupations of the moment. Unless we heed the warnings being issued by three of our most brilliant strategic thinkers, Mark Steyn, Bat Ye’or and Andrew McCarthy, however, we risk an irreversible national calamity.
Each of these authors has published in the past month powerful alarums about the steady erosion of the West’s societies, governing institutions and freedoms at the hands of shariah’s adherents and their enablers on the left.
Mark Steyn released After America: Get Ready for...
We are buiding in J&S but not nearly enough
With the end of the building freeze, construction has started up in Judea and Samaria (Yesha) communities. In fact, said the Central Bureau of Statistics, building jumped 660% in Judea and Samaria during the first half of 2011, as compared to a year before.
While the statistic was certainly breathtaking, the actual numbers on the ground were less impressive: Construction started on 546 new homes in Yesha communities during the period. Still, it was a sharp improvement over the number of housing starts in the first half of 2010, when only 72 housing starts were announced. Officials of the Yesha Council said they were pleased with the increase, but that clearly many more new homes were needed. “We need at least 500 new homes a month, not just in half a year, in order to accomodate all the families who want to live in Yesha.” Last week, Arutz Sheva reported on how dozens of American families who...
Obama shows his true Muslim proclivity
Obama and the Muslim question
By Burt PrelutskyWND
A while back, a friend who’s convinced that Barack Obama is a Muslim sent me an email in which he informed me that followers of Islam must refrain from wearing jewelry during Ramadan, which runs through August this year, and that Obama hasn’t worn his watch or his wedding ring since the start of the holiday.
I wrote back to say that I don’t know where or when Muslims are allowed to wear jewelry and that I tend not to notice jewelry, no matter who is or isn’t wearing it, unless it’s a guy in a poker game wearing a pinky ring. In which case, I cash in and go home.
The fact is, I wouldn’t care if Obama was a Muslim if he weren’t such an arrogant, lazy, snotty, lying socialist. So far as I can tell, he doesn’t prostrate himself and pray to Mecca five times a day, and I can’t quite picture him turning up his nose at a bacon cheeseburger. It’s all the things he does...
Inbar: “Israel is winning. Time is on her side.”
Inbar is right. Israel is winning and time is on its side. He also points out that Bibi has done a good job of keeping the (Israeli public solidly behind him, which is necessary to maintain his stance over the long haul. There is no point in bowing to the hotheads. He will only lose the support he needs. Ted Belman
Still far from ready for statehood
By Efraim Inbar, The Australian
EARLIER this year, Mahmoud Abbas made the decision to cut off the Palestine Liberation Organisation’s negotiations with Israel and go next month to the UN to bid for state recognition. There, a US veto at the Security Council is expected, while at the General Assembly a large majority is likely to endorse a motion recognising a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders.
Such a resolution is not binding in international law, but its prospects have elicited negative reactions from Israel, the US and part of the international community that deplore the Palestinian unilateral approach and fear the...
Israel Videos of the Week
A great video satire from HONEST REPORTING pointing out the misreporting of the press on the amount of effort Israel and the Jewish people have put out to try and achieve peace. Watch this and share with all.
Another great video satire from LatmaTV. The subtitles give over the true feelings that Israelis feel towards Egypt
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Click here to watch: Achat Sha’alti – Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach Enjoy this classic song from Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach. Enjoy the video and take in the touching music. |
lick here to watch: Allen West: “Palestine does NOT deserve a STATE.” Allen West tells it straight out – “there has always been an Israel, there was never a Palestine. Palestine was the name of a region created by the Romans after they expelled the Jews from Israel.” Watch and share with all. It... |
MK Hotovely: “how to bring Gilad home”
By Tzipi Hotovely, Israel Hayom
The time has come for another opinion to enter the public discourse over how to bring Gilad home. The importance of the struggle lies not just in saving captives, but in the bigger picture of our relations with Hamas, which threaten our entire southern border. Therefore I decided to attend the rally, despite the fact that I oppose the deal, because I thought it was necessary to say what I think we should do.
On the economic front, Israel’s government should stop transferring money to Gaza. Funds transferred each month in the framework of agreements with the Palestinian Authority also reach Hamas. By taking advantage of the fact that Fatah has signed a unity deal with Hamas, a terrorist organization, we could improve our image in the international arena and justify the blocking of funds to the Gaza Strip. Additionally, Israel has the power to prevent UNRWA trucks, which bring in $13.5 million in cash monthly, from entering Gaza....
No Egyptian crackdown on Sinai terrorists.
DEBKAfile Special Report August 31, 2011, 9
The Cairo media’s highly colored accounts Monday, Aug. 30 of 1,500 Egyptian commando and tank supposedly raiding Jihad Islami and al Qaeda cells in Sinai are pure fiction, debkafile’s military sources confirm. Israeli forces along the Gazan and Egyptian borders down to Eilat have been forced to stand for a week at the highest level of preparedness since receiving word that a large group of terrorists had left the Gaza Strip for Sinai on Aug. 24 bent on another attack on southern Israel. The Egyptian army, for its part, is sitting on is hands as the jihadists take up assault positions on its side of the Sinai border.
The group set out from Gaza the day after the head of the Jihad Islami missile and logistics chief Ismail al-Asmar died in a targeted Israeli air strike on the car he was travelling in Rafah.
Israelwent on high terror alert on Aug. 25. Its leaders have repeatedly warned since then that Israel is fully prepared to...
US confirms al Qaeda’s role in Libyan rebel command.
Did you know that Gaddafi kept close tabs on al Qaeda reps in Libya and maintained close reciprocal ties with Western counter-terror agencies, sharing with them the data his agencies gathered on al Qaeda movements. And now due to Obama’s war, Tripoli has been taken over by rebels forces headed by al Qaeda. Ted Belman
DEBKAfile Special Report September 1, 2011,
The Obama administration finally acknowledged Wednesday, Aug. 31 that al Qaeda elements had been fighting in Libyan rebel ranks in last week’s capture of Tripoli. This came about in a cautious remark from the office of President Barack Obama’s terrorism adviser John Brennan: “Some members of the LIFG [Al Qaeda's Libyan Islamic Fighting Group offshoot] in the past had connections with al Qaeda in Sudan, Afghanistan or Pakistan. Others dropped their relationship with al Qaeda entirely. It seems from their statements and support for establishing a democracy in Libya that this faction of LIFG does not...
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