Man, Oh, Manischewitz By Jonathan D. Sarna http://www.jidaily.com/DjoH “Holy Matzo!” a recent Forward headline read. The accompanying article announced the baking of the “world’s largest matzo” — 82 square feet — to mark the opening of the new Manischewitz matzo factory in Newark, N.J. The matzo proved ephemeral; it was soon broken up and distributed. […]
http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/ Research carried out by a team at Natal, a trauma center for victims of terror and war, under the supervision of Professor Marc Gelkopf, shows one-third of the population of the southern Israeli city of Sderot,which in recent years has been the target of thousands of Qassam rockets launched from Gaza (see, for instance, […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.9922/pub_detail.asp Like a recurrent tide that ebbs and flows isolationism, what some have called Fortress America, arrives at water’s edge each generation. War fatigue, monstrous expenditures, casualties and the cri de coeur that we cannot be the world’s policeman contribute to the belief from the left and the right that we should turn inward concentrating […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.9924/pub_detail.asp Even now, the Obama Administration does not seem to understand fully the risks that terrorism poses to our country. Why else would they commit the outrage of sneaking Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame, believed to be a senior commander with an al Qaeda group known as al-Shabaab in Somalia, into the middle of NYC from the Persian […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303678704576438391901303976.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_BelowLEFTSecond On Jan. 4, Salmaan Taseer, the liberal-minded governor of the Pakistani province Punjab, was shot 27 times at point-blank range by his bodyguard, an Islamic fanatic named Mumtaz Qadri. “The bullets pierced every organ in his body except his heart and his larynx,” his daughter Shehrbano told me recently. “So, in the end, they […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303678704576440263221151194.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop Are You Better Off? Obama will have to answer the question Reagan asked in 1980. White House adviser David Plouffe was hammered this week when he offered that “the average American” isn’t going to “vote based on the unemployment rate.” His remark gained instant notoriety after Friday’s dismal jobs report showing an unemployment rate […]
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ Even as Australia was banning the veil, New Zealand was caught in a scandal over the veil after the Saudi consulate complained when two of their masked slaves were refused access to a Kiwi bus. But the two bus drivers dodged accusations of Islamophobia by claiming that they instead suffer from Maskphobia. Maskphobia being […]
Ibn Warraq: The Judeo-Christian Origins of Islam (Part 1) http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/07/ibn-warraq-the-judeo-christian-origins-of-islam-part-1.html As Patricia Crone once put it, “new religions do not spring fully fledged from the heads of prophets, old civilizations are not conjured away.” Islam did not somehow emerge fully developed, as the Islamic traditional accounts would have us believe, but slowly, over a long […]
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/07/former-czech-prime-minister-faces-criminal-complaint-for-criticizing-islam.html Former Czech prime minister faces “criminal complaint” for criticizing Islam Milos Zeman “has been known for his strong statements.” The ones he made about Islam got him hauled into court. “Former Czech PM sued over statements on Islam,” from the Prague Monitor, July 7 (thanks to Weasel Zippers): Prague, July 7 (CTK) – Retired […]
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=gul-puts-de-facto-end-to-oath-taking-crisis-2011-07-10 WAKING UP TO TURKISH TRICKS? SHAME ON ISRAEL FOR FALLING FOR THE PRETENSE OF “ACCOMMODATION AND PEACE”….RSK Israeli Foreign Minister Slams Turkish PM for Furthering Divide Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman accused Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of having “shut the door” on reconciliation with Israel and having no intention of normalizing […]
