I'm walking as fast as I can now, as close to running as possible without actually running, to get home before my friend Ciema gets to my house and finds me not there. It is almost Shabbos, on the afternoon of the second day of Sukkot, and I have promised to meet her at my house between 6:30 and 7:00 p.m. to walk together to a neighbor's sukkah for dinner. I'm late, and now I'm running to catch up, but I know I can't walk, can't run, can't fly fast enough to get there by 6:30, not even by 7:00, and my mind is racing over what will happen when she arrives and I'm not there.I'm feeling anxious, because I can't call her or page her or leave her a message -- on Sukkot all these weekday communications are left behind. I can't smooth over my being so inexcusably late, and I can't influence or control her reaction when she arrives to find the house empty and no clue as to my whereabouts. I'm regretting that I never gave her either the ... more »
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Monday, October 9
Sipping through the hills - Judean wine trail
by
Jodie A.
on Mon 09 Oct 2006 10:14 PM EDT
Tuscany has its wine routes, as do Bordeaux and Napa Valley. Israel does, too. And there's no better time than now, during the Succot holiday, to drive from the coastal plain from the Judean mountains through one of the country's most scenic, fascinating and rapidly growing wine regions. If your image of vacation includes travel through vine-covered hills with friends and a glass of wine, you don't have to travel far. You don't even have to travel to the Galilee or to the Golan.
Jerusalem as capital forever
by
Jodie A.
on Mon 09 Oct 2006 09:50 PM EDT
In Sunday speech to Christian tourists, promises to maintain an undivided Jerusalem, talks of positive outcomes of war in LebanonNeta Sela
After meeting this past weekend with MK Avigdor Lieberman regarding the possibility of the Israel Our Home party joining the government coalition, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert Sunday once again appealed to the nationalist front. In a video address broadcast Sunday night to thousands of Christian tourists who came to Israel ... more »
Israel on alert for Syrian attack
by
Jodie A.
on Mon 09 Oct 2006 09:42 PM EDT
Security officials warn Damascus preparing its public for war By Aaron Klein JERUSALEM – In spite of assertions by some officials here to the contrary, Israel has placed its forces in the Golan Heights bordering Syria on heightened alert for possible confrontations following a series of statements by Syrian President Bashar Assad that his military is preparing for war with the Jewish state, WND has learned. Military officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, say the Israeli Defense Forces have fortified their positions in the Golan, including increasing security at checkpoints and the stationing of larger troop numbers at key areas throughout the territory. Also, the officials said, the IDF has reinforced security fences on the Israeli side of the border.The IDF has not moved in additional heavy weaponry, tanks, or troop divisions for fear of startling Syria, the officials said. "We are taking Assad's threats very seriously and are cautiously increasing our level of alertness for a possible provocation by Syria," a military official said. The official said Israel placed troops in the Golan on heightened alert during the 34-day war against Hezbollah in Lebanon that began July 12, but the alert level was raised in recent weeks following militant ... more »
Has King David's spa been uncovered?
by
Publisher
on Mon 09 Oct 2006 12:08 PM CDT
Jerusalem digs reveal a tunnel possibly leading to the king's pool
There's a buzz of excitement among archeologists. In recent days, archeological digs in Jerusalem revealed a tunnel that, according to a number of estimates, leads to a pool used by King David. The digs, which have been underway for years, are located in David's City, west of the Wailing Wall. A year ago, archeologists discovered a pool from the days of the Second Temple that had been used by pilgrims to Jerusalem, to refresh them after their long journey. Recently, the edge of a tunnel was discovered in the digs. Archeologists posit that it leads to a pool, originally located next to a garden full of fruit trees, where King David and other kings of the dynasty used to bathe. In order to ascertain whether it is really King David's spa, it will be necessary to dig for several months to the other end of the 30 meter long tunnel. Such digging requires special permission from the Greek Orthodox patriarchy, who is the holder of the land. Professor Ronny Reich of Haifa University, the leading archeologist at the David City dig, does not believe ... more »
Tehran and Damascus are gearing up for a pre-emptive Syrian attack on Israel to ward off a US strike on Iran’s nuclear sites
by
Publisher
on Mon 09 Oct 2006 12:07 PM CDT
Our military and Washington sources read as preparatory justification
the Syrian ruler Bashar Asad’s statement Saturday, Oct. 7, that he
expects an Israeli attack.
He was speaking in an interview to Kuwaiti paper al-Anba. Asad’s Iranian-backed war plan would serve the purpose of forcing the Americans to divide their military assets between a strike against Iran and the defense of their allies in the Persia Gulf, Israel and US forces in Iraq. Both are seriously looking at a Syrian attack on the Golan which would escalate into a full-blown Syrian-Israeli war and a second Hizballah assault from Lebanon. Asad’s remark that during the Lebanon hostilities, he was under pressure from the Syrian population to go to war against Israel and liberate the Golan is the most direct threat of belligerency of all his four Golan statements in the last month. He is implying that he stood up to the pressure once but may not do so again. And for the benefit of the Americans, the Europeans, the Saudis and the Egyptians - all of whom are pretty fed up with him – Asad is posing as the picture of self-restraint; anyone else in his place, he implies, would have taken ... more »
‘There arose out of the pit the smoke of a great furnace’
by
Publisher
on Mon 09 Oct 2006 09:06 AM AKDT
by Paul Johnson
The sound of the explosion was so loud, so prolonged and so unusual that I knew at once I was listening to a historic singularity. Indeed, it may not have been an explosion: more a catastrophic global event. Was it the end of the world? As the initial noise fell in volume, though it did not cease, a pentecostal wind swept over my house in Notting Hill. It faces north into the street, and the air current came from the south, as I could see from the trees bending over in our south-facing garden. I was sitting in my library, in my habitual chair near the French windows, and was astonished to see fallen leaves plastered on to them and held there by the fierce wind. Then I felt movement. It was not like an earthquake, which I had experienced in South America. In such tremors parts of the earth's crust crack and move in relation to each other, to produce disorientation and dizziness. It was, rather, as if the entire earth moved, as a unit, but out of its regular axis. Despite the feeling of movement, I went to the bottom of the stairs and began ... more »
CHRIS COLON (Christopher Columbus)
by
Publisher
on Mon 09 Oct 2006 09:03 AM AKDT
By Richard Booker
Americans remember 1492 as the year that Columbus sailed the ocean blue and discovered the new world. This was a discovery that would change the course of all human history. What is less well know is the true identity of Christopher Columbus and the role Jews played in the discovery of the new world. Many of us would be shocked to learn that America was discovered by a Jew named Chris Colon, better known as Christopher Columbus. It wasn’t safe to call yourself a Jew in the 14th and 15th centuries. As a result, Chris Colon was known as Christopher Columbus, a practicing Roman Catholic Christian. However, he was descended from a Jewish family that had fled Spain during anti-Jewish riots in 1391. The family settled among other Jews in Genoa, Italy. By the time Chris was born, the family accepted Christianity but secretly preserved their Jewish traditions. Chris’ father was a weaver, which was one of the few trades open to Jews of that period. His family was from the North East region of Spain which was heavily populated by Jews. Chris did not speak or write Italian, but Castilian, a language spoken by Jewish ... more »
'Israel has cause for concern over N. Korea's nuclear test'
by
Publisher
on Mon 09 Oct 2006 08:19 AM AKDT
Israel should be very concerned by North Korea's nuclear test," Uzi
Eilam, former head of Israel's Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC) told The
Jerusalem Post on Monday.
According to Eilam, "The cause for concern is three-fold. First, as a world democracy, it should be concerned by the threat a North Korean nuclear capability poses to the entire world. Second, It is certainly possible that Pyongyang would share its nuclear know-how with Iran, in return for a sizeable financial reward. North Korea's nuclear program is far more advanced than Iran's. While Iran has only started to produce fissile material, North Korea has done so at least five years ago." "Third, Syria, which is also under heavy international pressure, could look at the North Korean example and decide to actively push for its own nuclear capability, taking into account that it would be a great deterrent to alleviate the pressure and get the international community off its back," Eilam said. "Today's experiment means that the North Koreans have successfully produced a device whose core is the heart of a nuclear bomb. In order to reach that level, it must be integrated in a weapons system, whether a bomb or a missile warhead. Since ... more »
A Time to Speak Out
by
Publisher
on Mon 09 Oct 2006 07:29 AM AKDT
By Robert Spencer
In this era of violent intimidation, it is crucial for the continued life of our free society that we speak out, and do so fearlessly. Evidence of the urgency of this multiplies daily. Pope Benedict XVI called upon Muslims (and Christians) to forsake religious violence, but in the course of doing so quoted a statement by a fourteenth-century Byzantine emperor that offended some Muslims. In response, in Pakistan a thousand Islamic clerics and scholars have demanded that the Pope be “removed from his position immediately for encouraging war and fanning hostility between various faiths" and "making insulting remarks" against Islam. Just to make sure that we all understand that Islam is a religion of peace, they added: “If the West does not change its stance regarding Islam, it will face severe consequences." Meanwhile, a new Palestinian jihad group announced: “Every place relevant to Christians will be a target until the cursed infidel – the Vatican – apologizes to Muslims.” Muslims in Gaza burned and vandalized seven Christian sites, including a 1,400-year-old church. Meanwhile, a nun in Somalia and two other Christians in Iraq were killed, and others threatened worldwide -- including, of course, the Pope himself.... more » |
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