http://www.jewishpress.com/pageroute.do/49495 Continuing turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa signals important and potentially catastrophic transformations. For Israel, the greatest danger stems from the interpenetrating and largely unpredictable effects of war, terrorism and revolution in the region. In essence, these plainly destabilizing effects could spawn an unprecedented and historically unique kind of chaos. […]
http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=235491 Allen West doesn’t move through the lobby of Jerusalem’s David Citadel like most of the other 20 or so freshmen congressmen in his delegation visiting Israel – anonymously, with no one really knowing the difference between them and the regular tourists. No, West walks through the lobby almost like a rock star – […]
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0811/glick082611.php3?printer_friendly http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | American media superstar Glenn Beck’s visit to Israel this week was a revealing and remarkable event. It revealed what it takes to be a friend of Israel. And it revealed the causes of Israel’s difficulty in telling its enemies from its friends. Many world leaders, opinion shapers and other notables profess enduring […]
http://www.mideastoutpost.com/archives/ernest-putzi-hanfstaengl-the-nazis-mock-trials-and-harvard-by-ruth-king.html In this issue, historian Rita Kramer reviews Eric Larson’s Garden of the Beasts–a narrative of the experiences of the American ambassador to Germany during the years 1933-1938. In the book Ambassador Dodd records how the Nazis–from lower communications agency bureaucrats up to Goebbels and Hitler himself–were deeply unsettled by the American State Department’s […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.1769/pub_detail.asp 1. VIDEO: Heart-Wrenching Image: Dog Keeps Watch Over Fallen SEAL’s Casket During Funeral 2. VIDEO: Sen. Marco Rubio (R) spoke at the Reagan Library – Wows them in Reagan country – “I was born and raised in Reagan’s America” 3. VIDEO: Letterman jokes about jihadist website death threat 4. VIDEO: An hour after […]
Arab Spring for Dummies Posted By Daniel Greenfield http://frontpagemag.com/2011/08/25/arab-spring-for-dummies/print/ Last year, Israel had three stable borders and one unstable border. Now that the Arab Spring has turned into Terror Summer, those numbers have flipped around. Israel’s border with Egypt has become as troubled as the Lebanese border. And the Syrian border is following close behind. […]
http://www.mideastoutpost.com/archives/in-the-garden-of-the-beasts-rita-kramer.html Those accounts we have of life in Germany during the twelve-year Reich have been written by the persecuted, the hunted, the hidden who managed to survive. In this engrossing, sad, and sometimes infuriating book we learn what it was like to be a stranger, a neutral observer, in the early years of Hitler’s […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/275404/peking-duck-mark-steyn Peter Kirsanow suggests my new book may get the blame for the earthquake. I’m happy to take credit for the downgrade and the London riots, but to the best of my recollection there’s no ‘quake in there. However, since he brought it up, I’d like to put in a word for my book’s general […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903461304576526863616758344.html Bloomberg Bans Clergy From 9/11 Ceremony but Ground Zero Mosque OK Read more: http://nation.foxnews.com/sept-11/2011/08/24/bloomberg-bans-clergy-911-ceremony-ground-zero-mosque-ok#ixzz1W2HSvnNF Religious leaders are calling on Mayor Michael Bloomberg to reverse course and offer clergy a role in the ceremony commemorating the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. Rudy Washington, a deputy mayor in former Mayor […]
http://www.jewishideasdaily.com/content/module/2011/8/25/main-feature/1/hidden-master Hidden Master By Allan Nadler The saddest saga in Jewish literary history involves some 500 Soviet Yiddish artists who were stolen away by Stalin’s henchmen in the late 1940’s. Accused of a variety of heresies against the doctrine of “socialist realism” demanded by Soviet cultural commissars, they met a tragic fate after twenty years […]
