Shabbat Shalom Torah Nasso (“Elevate [thehead]“) Num 4:21-7:89 Haftarah Judg 13:2-25
by Moshe Phillips The spotlight on Middle East regimes in transition has left Tunisia and Egypt behind for the most part and zeroed in on Libya. I believe that it is worthwhile however to examine one of the early images of the revolt against the rule of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. The fact that it was a complex amalgam of forces that joined together in the streets of Tunis was brought home to me in a photo (above) in the January 25, 2011 issue of The Philadelphia Inquirer.
By Raymond Ibrahim A mass exodus of Christians is currently underway. Millions of Christians are being displaced from one end of the Islamic world to the other. We are reliving the true history of how the Islamic world, much of which prior to the Islamic conquests was almost entirely Christian, came into being.
By Moshe Phillips Abraham Foxman and the ADL have done it again. This time they have attacked Glenn Beck for using imagery that they claimed was Nazi at the NRA convention. The problem is that Beck did not use a mock-up of Mayor Bloomberg giving the Nazi salute — the image was of Mayor Bloomberg in a famous pose of Vladimir Lenin. (See the full ABC News story here: The image of Lenin that Glenn Beck used is so famous and iconic that statues have been made of it. Perhaps the most famous one is now in Memento Park in…
by Rabbi Noson Weisz Comparing the two tablets: one containing obligations toward God, the other obligations toward people. The Torah contains 613 commandments. But on Mount Sinai — the only occasion in history when the entire Jewish people had a face-to-face meeting with God — God chose to emphasize 10.
By Elad Benari Iranian Navy boats take part in navy maneuvers in the Strait of Hormuz In what may be a warning to Iran, the U.S. Navy said on Monday that envoys from 41 nations had gathered in Bahrain to begin anti-mine drills in the Persian Gulf.
This undated picture released from North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on May 6, 2013 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (R) inspecting the newly built Turf Institute of the Bioengineering Branch under the State Academy of Sciences in suburban Pyongyang (AFP Photo / KSNA) Arms, Military, Politics, North Korea, USA, Missile defense, Army, Navy In a sudden de-escalation of tension on the Korean Peninsula, Pyongyang has removed two of its ballistic missile units from their launching positions, US officials confirmed. Two Musudan missiles, capable of hitting targets 2,500 miles away, were withdrawn from a launch site in…
The Maharal of Prague on Shavuot and the essence of man. by Rabbi Doniel Baron The following is a translated excerpt adapted from the Maharal of Prague’s homily delivered in Posen, Poland on Shavuot, in 5352/1592. The full text of the essay is printed at the end in the London edition of the Maharal’s Be’er Hagolah and has never been published in English. King Solomon begins the book of Ecclesiastes with a question: “What advantage does man, adam in Hebrew, have in all that he toils under the sun?” (Ecclesiastes 1:3). The question belies an assumption. If man does…
Ahmad Gharabli/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images By STEVEN ERLANGER A Palestinian man walked past ultra-Orthodox Jews as they prayed in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem last year. Unesco experts will inspect cultural heritage sites in mid-May. Israel and the Palestinians agreed on Tuesday to renewed involvement by Unesco, the United Nations cultural agency, in the Old City of Jerusalem. The agreement was a small but significant breakthrough in the often highly politicized workings of the agency.
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