Folks, this is a fascinating article. Reprinted in full from The NY Times: When she was growing up in a small town in southern Colorado, an area where her ancestors settled centuries ago when it was on the fringes of the northern frontier of New Spain, Bernadette Gonzalez always thought some of the stories about her family were unusual, if not bizarre. Her grandmother, for instance, refused to travel on Saturday and would use a specific porcelain basin to drain blood out of meat before she cooked it. In one tale that particularly puzzled Ms. Gonzalez, 52, her grandfather called
Read More +Under the ramadan Moon
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Folks, think about the following, excerpted from Under the Ramadan Moon: President Bush hosted another dinner this year for Muslim leaders at the White House for the traditional meal that marks the end of a daily Ramadan fast. Hosting Islamic leaders at the White House has become an annual event, one which began in 2001 after Islamic terrorists slammed three aircraft loaded with innocent Americans in the World Trade Center and Pentagon building and crashed a fourth filled with passengers into a field in Pennsylvania. I always thought that an odd tradition to start, given the circumstances. Sort of like
Read More +The Yom Kippur War
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Read More +Dennis Prager writes: In 1973, during the Arab embargo on oil exports that followed the Yom Kippur War between Israel and Egypt, many Americans had to deal with embargo-induced hour-long lines at gas stations, gas rationing, and various setbacks to the economy. As a result, some called for our abandonment of Israel for the sake of oil. Those voices were not heard among evangelical Christians. In fact, in a television broadcast from his church to his many followers, the Rev. Jerry Falwell said that he would sooner give up his car and ride a bicycle than yield to Arab blackmail.
Read More +To American Jews Everywhere
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Folks, I take no credit for writing the following article, although I wish I had written it, because it is exactly how I feel about Jews who wish they weren’t Jewish. Like some pathetic Jewish Dems in New Jersey, and like some ambivalent Jewish lefties in California, and like those slimy Progressive and Reform Jews at my synagogue in New York. You all disgust me. Folks, if you’re Jewish, wake up and thank G-d for your history. Appreciate the gift that HaShem gave you: being BORN A JEW! What greater gift is there? Really, folks, do you go to bed
Read More +Merry Christmas, everyone!
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My feelings about Christmas echo Rabbi Haim Cassorla’s thoughts on Christmas: “…Truly a Holy Day, which to a Christian rises to the level of Holiness of Yom Kippur (l’havdil). …This Christmas is a wonderful day and I wish that more Christians would celebrate it. …We, in the United States, annually fight a civil war about whether to publicly celebrate a Christian Holy Day. Each year the war seems to become more bitter and entrenched, but more and more Jewish leaders are coming to the “Right” side and arguing that Christmas is a Religious Holy Day and should be celebrated as
Read More +The Jewish connection to Jerusalem begins with the Jewish Bible. The area of special holiness is Mount Moriah, today known as the Temple Mount. This area is located beneath the platform on which the Moslem Shrine, the Dome Of the Rock, now occupies. In the Jewish Bible, Jerusalem has many names: Salem (Shalem), Moriah, Jebuse (Yevuse), Jerusalem (Yerushalayim), and Zion (Tziyon). The most common term for the city, Yerushalayim, is mentioned 349 times in the Jewish Bible, while Tziyon is mentioned an additional 108 times. The earliest mention of the site is Genesis 4:18, when Abraham interacts with Malchizedek, King
Read More +Questions
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Questions by Prof. Paul Eidelberg 1. If it is normal to fear and avoid violent death, are the Arabs a normal people, and, if not, can Jews make peace with such a people? 2. Is it not natural or normal to hate those who murder your loved ones? If Jews do not hate Arabs, are Jews a normal people? 3. Why do Arabs hate Jews far more than Jews hate Arabs? a. Do Arabs love their kinsmen more than Jews love their fellow Jews?b. Do Arabs feel shamed or disgraced when Jews kill Arabs? (Do Jews feel disgraced when Arabs
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