May 24, 2013
The Jews News web site has reported on a public statement by Nicolas Maduro, the new President of Venezuela, who has revealed that he has Jewish grandparents. The revelation comes as part of a larger statement in which Maduro attempts to defend the stridently anti Israel policy of the recently deceased President Hugo Chavez. Maduro [...]
Tags: Hugo Chavez, Israel and Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, President of Venezuela
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May 24, 2013
This week, parshat Behalosecha will be ushered in in New York City at 7:55PM with candle lighting, which is 18 minutes before sunset. On the Chabad.org web site, you can look up the time Shabbat begins in your city.You can also look up the time Shabbat ends on Saturday night. This week, Chabad.org columnist [...]
Tags: candle lighting, Lich Bentchen, parsha, Parshat Behalotecha, Shabbat, twelve tribes
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May 22, 2013
Yesterday, I was watching a historical documentary called Baathism and National Socialism. It explained in great detail the strategic importance of the oil producing nations to both thye allies and to Nazi Germany. It also details the extravagant promises made during World War One to Arab nationalists that overlapped and conflicted with promises made to [...]
Tags: Arab anti semitism, Arab nationalism, Baathism and Nazism, Mufti of Jerusalen
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May 21, 2013
One of the scourges of western colonialism in the Middle East, Africa and Asia is the tendency of colonial powers to rope together disparate and often hostile elements into one country. Nigeria, British India and Syria are a few of many nations that are countries only in the administrative sense. British India has fragmented into [...]
Tags: Arab Israeli conflict, Mordechai Kedar, Muslim Brotherhood and Israel, Syria and Israel
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May 20, 2013
An ugly underside to the Anonymous” group of anti government hackers is their blind adoption of opposition to the State of Israel. To meet this threat, Israel Anonymous” has been formed. In the following video, they give the names, photos and IP addresses of anti Israel hackers, with promises of more to come. Modern warfare [...]
Tags: Anonymous, anti Israel cyber warfare, anti Israel Hackers, israel-anonymous
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May 19, 2013
When Arab and Iranian political leaders deny that there was ever a Jewish presence in Israel, it ignited a storm of derision and protest. What is both significant and constructive is the light Arab and Iranian revisionists inadvertently shed on the field of biblical archaeology. In an article by Richard Elliott Friedman, he surveys the [...]
Tags: Arab and Iranian denial of Jewish presence in Israel, biblical archaeology, Israeli archeology, Jewish archaeology
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May 16, 2013
This week, Parshat Naso, Candle Lighting in New York City will be at 7:49PM. Candle lighting, which is 18 minutes before the sunset which marks the beginning of Shabbat differs according the town in which one lives. In Brooklyn, Shabbat will end at 8:55. Chabad.org has a site where one can look up this information, [...]
Tags: candle lighting, Licht Bentshen, parsha, Parshat Naso
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May 14, 2013
Tonight, May 14, at 7:46 PM, Shavuot, the Feast of Weeks will be ushered in with candle lighting. Outside of the Holy Land, the holiday will be two days. In Israel, the holiday will be one day. During this holiday, we do not drive or flip light switches, or,for that matter, any other [...]
Tags: candle lighting, Licht Bentshen, Shavuot, Ten commandments, Yom Tov
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May 13, 2013
Jibril Rajoub is a senior Palestinian Authority official who isregularly referred to as a “moderate” in the Western, as well as and Israeli news media. What he said on Lebanese television should cause thoughtful observers to reassess this label. Referring to the necessity of negotiating with the Israelis, Rajoub said “I swear that if we [...]
Tags: concessions for peace, Jibril Rajoub, Jibril Rajoub on nuclear weapons, nuking Israel
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May 13, 2013
Does anyone remember the Republic of Biafra? It lasted from May 30, 1967 to January 15, 1970. Biafra was a breakaway province of Nigeria that had its own language, separate and distinct from Yoruba, the dominant language in Nigeria. Its people were and are known as the Igbo. The Nigerian government, in addition to its [...]
Tags: civilian casualties in Biafra, Civilian casualties of Israeli raids, Congo war, IDF conduct in war, Liberia, Pakistan and Bangla Desh, Sierra Leone
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