YOM KIPPUR EXPLAINED: YORAM ETTINGER

Yom Kippur Guide for the Perplexed
Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger,\Based on Jewish Sages

http://www.theettingerreport.com

1. Yom Kippur’s central theme is the plea for forgiveness from fellow
human-beings, highlighting the most essential attributes of constructive
leadership, healthy relationships and family and national cohesion: humility
(admitting fallibility), faith, soul-searching, thoughtfulness, being
considerate, compassion, accepting responsibility, minimizing personal
hostility, magnanimity. In order to penetrate the heart of fellow
human-beings, the plea for forgiveness must emanate from the heart. Yom
Kippur is not driven by punishment, but by behavioral-enhancement.

ROBERT BRYCE: FIVE TRUTHS ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203388804576612620828387968.html
Five Truths About Climate Change
During the decade that Al Gore dominated the environmental debate, global carbon-dioxide emissions rose by 28.5%.

Over the past two months, environmental activists have held protests at the White House and elsewhere hoping to convince the Obama administration to deny a permit for the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to the Gulf Coast. Some of those same activists have launched a series of demonstrations called “Moving Planet” to move “the planet away from fossil fuels towards a safer climate future.” And next month, leaders from dozens of countries will meet at the 17th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Durban, South Africa.

EMANUEL LITVINOFF: POET AND DETRACTOR OF T.S. ELIOT…..VERY INTERESTING

Emanuel Litvinoff, Poet and Detractor of    T. S. Eliot, Dies at 96 By MARGALIT FOX Emanuel Litvinoff, an English-born Jewish poet known for his scathing verse indictment of T. S. Eliot’s anti-Semitism — and for reading it before an audience that happened to include Eliot — died on Sept. 24 at his home in London. […]

THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON JEWISH AFFAIRS ALERT: COLUMBIA U TO HOLD THREE DAY “ISRAEL APARTHEID” CONFERENCE

The National Conference on Jewish Affairs NCJA ACTION ALERT: Columbia U Event to Feature Hate Rapper — October 14-16 Conference BACKGROUND: On the weekend of October 14-16, 2011,  “Students for Justice in Palestine” (SJP), which unfortunately has chapters at dozens of major American universities, will be holding a three-day conference at Columbia University to train students […]

ELI HERTZ: JEWISH PALESTINE-THE NATIONAL HOME OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE

Jewish Palestine – The National Home of the Jewish People http://www.mythsandfacts.com/ The “Mandate for Palestine,” a historical League of Nations document, laid down the Jewish legal right to settle anywhere in western Palestine, the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, an entitlement unaltered in international law. The “Mandate for Palestine” was not […]

Moroccan Muslim ‘Apostate’ to Christianity Survives Stabbing and Gets US Asylum Andrew G. Bostom

http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/10/moroccan_muslim_apostate_to_christianity_survives_stabbing_and_gets_us_asylum.html   The noble American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), which has been supporting the defense efforts for Youcef Nadarkhani, has helped a Moroccan “apostate” to Christianity (a young man identified as “Z”) obtain asylum in the US. Raised in a “purely traditional, Islamic way,” Z “had a burning desire since adolescence to be […]

DIANA WEST: CHARBARAN: BEEN THERE AND DONE COIN

http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1919/Charbaran-Been-There-Done-COIN.aspx The NYT this week carried yet another  report on yet another US  mission to “disrupt” yet another A-stan network with yet another first lieutenant sitting down with yet another tribal elder (only this one was named Mohammad –) while  troops searched yet another village, where Afghan troops had yet again probably tipped off local […]

THE PRESIDENT AND THE PANTHERS: ANDREW McCARTHY

The President and the Panthers By Andrew C. McCarthy http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/279245/president-and-panthers-andrew-c-mccarthy A couple of days ago, I pointed readers to Andrew Breitbart’s report about President Obama’s having appeared and marched with members of the New Black Panther Party in Selma in 2007. The report, and my alerting readers to it, caused some shrieking in predictable quarters on […]

ANDREW McCARTHY: HOLDER’S DUBIOUS HISTORY

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/279201 Holder’s Dubious History The AG’s Fast & Furious amnesia is reminiscent of his Marc Rich amnesia. House Republicans are now calling for a special counsel to investigate whether Attorney General Eric Holder perjured himself in congressional testimony about the scandalous Fast & Furious program. Specifically, the attorney general claimed on May 3 that he […]

ROBERT SPENCER: U.S. HAD EVERY RIGHT TO KILL AWLAKI

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=46597 Anwar al-Awlaki, a desperately evil man who was linked to the 9/11 attacks (he was “spiritual adviser” to a couple of the hijackers) as well as to the Fort Hood jihad murder, the Christmas underwear jihad bombing attempt on an airplane over Detroit, and the Times Square jihad mass murder attempt, has gone to […]