Analysis
Thursday, September 24th 2015 / Thursday, September 24th 2015
Recent developments in Iceland fit well in the long history of that country’s anti-Semitism. Last week, the left wing majority on the Reykjavik municipal council decided on a boycott of all Israeli products. In view of the protests, the city’s mayor now wants to replace it with a boycott of settlement goods.[1] […]
Tuesday, September 22nd 2015 / Tuesday, September 22nd 2015
One of the finest virtues we can ever achieve in our lives is when our word is our bond. I will never forget when the business of one of our dear members deteriorated. He had the opportunity in civil law to declare bankruptcy but refused; instead, he ensured that every […]
Monday, September 21st 2015 / Monday, September 21st 2015
There are two key, related, and little-remarked dimensions of the current Middle Eastern migration crisis. These are, on the one hand, the almost complete economic and political collapse of the Muslim societies and states furnishing the millions of desperate refugees. The second dimension of the phenomenon is the immense strains the […]
Sunday, September 13th 2015 / Thursday, December 3rd 2015
Friday, September 11th 2015 / Friday, September 11th 2015
In Loving Memory of Malka Z”L The name Rosh HaShanah as it is used in the Bible (Ezekiel 40:1) simply means the beginning of the year, and does not designate the festival. The Babylonian name Tishri seems to derive from the root Seru, which means “to begin.” The […]
Thursday, September 10th 2015
The day after the dust began to settle on Israel’s War of Independence, congenital optimists – there were many more of that breed alive then than there are today! – began scouring the landscape for signs of Spring – signs that Israel’s enemies had accepted the futility of defying the […]
Tuesday, August 25th 2015 / Thursday, August 27th 2015
“It is extremely important to understand the plans of the Islamic State. According to this movement both the State of Israel and Jews the world over should be exterminated. In principle, Sunna Islam has no feud with Judaism and Christianity. Yet the Islamic State proclaims that Israel and Judaism are […]
Monday, August 24th 2015
The United Church of Canada, conventionally referred to as “Canada’s largest Protestant denomination,” and reported by different news sources today as having “at least 600,000 members” (National Post, August 21), as “having about a million members” (several sources), and as having had “over 2 million members in 2012” (Times of Israel), has […]
Although, as I write, Canadians are going to the polls in only 8 weeks and Americans are not going to the polls for 11 weeks plus an entire year, the speculative excitement in the media about who will be the next national leader seems to be about equal in both countries. And […]
Monday, August 24th 2015 / Monday, August 24th 2015
But the [Roman] Legate Lentulus said, “That for the purpose of saving the country no proposition ought to be rejected…the defense of their country was always good…”. For where the very safety of the country depends upon the resolution to be taken… putting all other considerations aside, the only question should be, What […]
Thursday, August 20th 2015
Moral relativism is a key tool used to undermine human values. This destructive approach may be defined as “moral judgments are true or false only relative to some particular standpoint – -for instance, that of a culture or a historical period — and that no standpoint is uniquely privileged over all others…. […]
Monday, August 10th 2015 / Monday, August 10th 2015
Traditionally, American Presidents and policymakers have strived to create and maintain stability with their Middle East allies. Yet now with the Iran deal we have estranged our traditional allies while at the same time trying to appease them. Multilateralism and diplomacy to a fault is the legacy of the Obama White […]
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