Jewish ‘Leaders’ Are Driving Away Jews
by William A. Levinson
Originally in the American Thinker
Originally in the American Thinker
Jewish religious leaders complain that American Jews are intermarrying, assimilating, and abandoning Judaism. These leaders include Eric Yoffie, the former head of the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ). The URJ was itself a major source of the problem on Yoffie’s watch, and it still is. I refer to its support of political agendas that cannot help but alienate at least some people of Reform Jewish identity, such as myself.
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Speaking Out about “Breaking the Silence”
NGO MONITOR
Jerusalem – The intense international campaign by Breaking the Silence (BtS) resulted in a strong rebuttal from an official of the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, and in this context, NGO Monitor is providing additional background information and analysis on BtS and this issue.
As shown in NGO Monitor’s detailed research reports, BtS presents a highly distorted perspective, distributing unverifiable “testimonies” by former IDF soldiers. BtS’ framing and context of these testimonies reflects the group’s strong ideology. The NGO ignores the moral complexity of IDF actions in the West Bank, instead presenting Israeli counter-terror operations and procedures as intended to “punish, deter, or tighten control over the Palestinian population” or to create “intimidation, instilling of fear, and indiscriminate punishment of the Palestinian population.”
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Obama loses in Syria
By Tom Gross Dispatch
OBAMA IS LEARNING VERY LATE THAT, FOR A SUPERPOWER, INACTION IS A FORM OF ACTION
America sidelined, barely relevant
By Charles Krauthammer
Washington Post
June 20, 2013
By Charles Krauthammer
Washington Post
June 20, 2013
The war in Syria, started by locals, is now a regional conflict, the meeting ground of two warring blocs. On one side, the radical Shiite bloc led by Iran, which overflies Iraq to supply Bashar al-Assad and sends Hezbollah to fight for him. Behind them lies Russia, which has stationed ships offshore, provided the regime with tons of weaponry and essentially claimed Syria as a Russian protectorate.
And on the other side are the Sunni Gulf states terrified of Iranian hegemony (territorial and soon nuclear); non-Arab Turkey, now convulsed by an internal uprising; and fragile Jordan, dragged in by geography.
And behind them? No one. It’s the Spanish Civil War except that only one side – the fascists – showed up. The natural ally of what began as a spontaneous, secular, liberationist uprising in Syria was the United States. For two years, it did nothing.
Very Good News Israel
The Jewish State in its true light.
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In the 23rd June 2013 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:
· 30,000 visitors came to Israel in 2012 for vital medical treatment.
· The courage of Israel’s Miss World 1998 is shown in a new documentary film.
· An Israeli company is building a solar farm in Rwanda.
· Elbit’s Clear Vision system can land airplanes in any weather.
· New fiber optic cable will turn Israel “into the first digital nation”.
· A quality performance by Barbra Streisand at the President’s Conference.
· Israel’s U21 Euro soccer tournament was hailed as a great success.
· Last week’s JPost Israel Good News descriptive summary
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The coalition is crumbling
By Ted Belman
Netanyahu’s coalition is fraying at the edges. MK’s from Likud and Habayit Yahudi are speaking out in defiance of Government policy. The driver is Netanyahu’s embrace of the peace process and his willingness to have a de facto building freeze.
Two weeks ago he said that Israel had to be “smart about” where it built and hinted it was ready to limit expansion to settlement clusters it intends to keep in any future land-for-peace deal. At around the same time MK Danny Danon attracted a lot of attention when he declared that the governing coalition is staunchly opposed to a two-state solution and would block the creation of a Palestinian state if such a proposal ever came to a vote. He went so far as to say “This government will block any two-state deal”(Read more…)
Ted Belman
Jerusalem, Israel
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