Palestinians fired a Qassam rocket Monday afternoon from northern Gaza towards the southern town of Sderot. The rocket fell outside of town, Thank G-d, not causing any damage or casualties. Earlier Monday, another rocket was fired and landed in an open field.
Read More +Interesting poll results from Dr. Aaron Lerner, Director IMRA (Independent Media Review & Analysis) Telephone poll of a representative sample of adult Israeli Jews carried out by Mutagim for Makor Rishon and Gesher and published in Makor Rishon on 22 September, 2006 31.8% Don’t turn on electrical equipment on the Sabbath62.6% Say Kiddush on the Sabbath89.1% Read the Haggadah at a Passover Seder70.8% Fast on Yom Kippur [78.6% of women and 62.8% of men]61.8% Observe Kashrut at some level65.5% Give charity on Purim email: imra@netvision.net.il website: http://www.imra.org.il
Read More +From Gary Rosenberg, Project Shofar: The month of Elul is a month of preparation for the month of Tishre and the Days of Awe, Rosh HaShannah and Yom Kippur. During this entire month we sound the Shofar every morning after our prayers to help prepare us to repent and purify ourselves for a good New Year. It is also the month of my birth. This year will be the eighteenth year that I have been sounding the Shofar on Rosh HaShannah at the Cave of Machpelah in Hebron. Clearly Project Shofar is my calling. The sound of the Shofar reminds
Read More +By Aaron KleinSeptember 12, 2006 Israeli security officials say there are very serious indications the Islamic Jihad terror group is planning a string of anti-Israeli attacks, including suicide bombings, throughout the Muslim holiday month of Ramadan. Ramadan this year begins Sept. 23 and coincides with the almost month-long series of Jewish holidays, including Rosh Hashana (Sept. 23); Yom Kippur (Oct. 2) and Sukkot (Oct. 7-14). Khaled al-Batch, an Islamic Jihad operative in the northern Samaria terror stronghold of Jenin, confirmed to the Galil Report his terror group’s intentions. “We will turn the Israelis lives into a living hell,” al-Batch said.
Read More +The Arab Oil Embargo of 1973-74
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Read More +An open letter to the world
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Dear World, I understand that you are upset by us, here in Israel. Indeed, it appears that you are quite upset, even angry. (Outraged?) Indeed, every few years you seem to become upset by us. Today, it is the “brutal repression of the Palestinians”; yesterday it was Lebanon; before that it was the bombing of the nuclear reactor in Baghdad and the Yom Kippur War and the Sinai campaign. It appears that Jews who triumph and who, therefore, live, upset you most extraordinarily. Of course, dear world, long before there was an Israel, we – the Jewish people – upset
Read More +May G-d forgive us all
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The most dreaded news I could imagine, my worst nightmare, has come true: Ehud Olmert’s Kadima party revealed yesterday it would divide Jerusalem and allow a Palestinian state to be established in parts of Israel’s “eternal capital.” “The Old City, Mount Scopus, the Mount of Olives, the City of David, Sheikh Jarra will remain in our hands, but [regarding] Kafr Akeb, Abu-Ram, Shuafat, Hizma, Abu-Zaim, Abu-Tur, Abu Dis, in the future, when the Palestinian state is established, they will become its capital,” said Otniel Schneller, a Kadima member who represented the party at a debate yesterday on dividing Jerusalem. There
Read More +I’m being compared to Pat Robertson
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Folks, I am being compared to Pat Roberston on some websites because of what I wrote in my post, The expulsion of Jews from Hebron and Sharon’s health. Are they related? Here’s my reply, with thanks to Rabbi Levi I. Brackman: For those of us who believe in G-d the question is: how could He have done this to Sharon, or to Dick Clark or to FDR (all stroke victims)? (For those who do not believe in G-d, this type of event just reinforces their skepticism.) Asking “why” is not only acceptable but it is part of Jewish tradition. So,
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