by Judy Lash Balint
Sukkot of every size and description can be seen on balconies, rooftops and in courtyards. Every kosher restaurant in town has one and boasts bigger and better holiday specials to entice customers.You know it's Sukkot in Jerusalem because...
1. You can't get on a bus without being poked in the rear a dozen times with someone's stray lulav.
2. The sweet smell of etrogim in Jerusalem's Machane Yehuda (Yehuda Market) is overpowering. Huge crowds descend on the alleyway just outside the market to vie for the best lulav and etrog.
3. An enterprising bookstore is offering "Machzor rentals" for tourists who inadvertently left their holiday prayer books at home.
4. You've never seen such gaudy sukkah decorations in your life -- unless you've been to Woolworth's on Christmas eve. Kiosks manned by bearded Haredim in Meah Shearim are selling gold, green and red tinsel hangings.
5. Huge piles of s'chach (palm fronds for the roof of the sukkah) cover major city squares, and citizens are invited to take as much as they need for free.
6. Hotels report almost 100 percent occupancy, as Israelis join foreign tourists in celebrating the week-long holiday.
7. Sukkot of every ...   more »

Muslim intimidation could make 'land of Jesus' barren in 15 years
The once vibrant Christian communities of Bethlehem and Nazareth, with roots in the "land of Jesus" going back to first century Israel, are rapidly declining in the face of a systematic campaign of persecution conducted by the same Muslim terrorists intent on driving the Jews into the sea.
Beatings, sham legal proceedings, property seizures, dismissal and replacement of elected Christian leaders, accusations of selling property to Jews and intimidation by gunmen with links to the government of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas have so reduced Christian populations in the cities of Jesus' birth and boyhood one community leader predicts all Christians will be gone within 15 years.  
In "Schmoozing with Terrorists: From Hollywood to the Holy Land Jihadists Reveal their Global Plans – to a Jew!" author and WND Jerusalem bureau chief Aaron Klein chronicles his meetings and interviews with leaders of terror groups and Islamist organizations long accused of intimidation and violence against Mideast Christians.
'No more Christians in Bethlehem'
For part of one chapter, Klein travels to Bethlehem to meet with the city's Christians and with its terrorist leaders.
Bethlehem consisted of upwards of 80 percent ...   more »