by Rabbi Jeff Kahn (Temple Har Shalom, Warren N.J.) Abraham Lincoln was Jewish? The work Rabbi Jeff Kahn: “On the twelfth of February, 1809, nearly 200 years ago, a young, poor illiterate woman from Virginia, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, gave birth to a son, in a log cabin, built along the banks of the south fork […]

Since Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin was named the Republican V.P. nominee, the Jewish community has been eager to learn her views on Israel and Jewish issues. Some have questioned the values of her church after a Jews for Jesus representative gave a sermon there, but her supporters laud her as a friend to the Jews. […]

Steven Plaut Posted Sep 17 2008 The day Israel released the baby-murdering Arab terrorist Samir Kuntar was without doubt the most disgraceful in modern Jewish history. Israel paid tribute to the Hizbullah terrorists for murdering Jewish soldiers by freeing Kuntar, much as it had done four years earlier when it let go hundreds of jailed […]

Oct. 6, 2008 Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST In the end, the global jihad, and the West’s fickle response to radical Islam’s assault on its civilization, is about hating Jews. This truth, never wholly hidden from view, was exposed in all its ugliness in recent months with startling disclosures by former Italian president and […]

by Tom Mountain Betty Friedan couldn’t have predicted Sarah Palin. Why do liberal Jews have such a problem with Sarah Palin? One would think that the die-hard feminists in the Jewish community would trumpet the ascension of a woman to the second spot on a presidential ticket, much as they did over two decades ago […]

By Aaron I. Reichel, Esq. CFP Sunday, October 5, 2008 I find it most frustrating that Senator John McCain and Governor Sarah Palin, and most of their surrogates and ad writers, have failed to put forth many of their strongest and most persuasive arguments most of the time. Were they to only set forth their […]

by Prof. Steven Plaut Anti-dissident McCarthyism in Israel. The smoke from the pipe bomb had not yet cleared from the courtyard in front of the home of Prof. Zeev Sternhell in Jerusalem when the media launched their most ferocious McCarthyist broadside against the Israeli “Right” since the mid-1990s. The media leaped to the knee-jerk conclusion […]

ISRAELI PATRIOTISM & OPTIMISM Irrespective of the severe leadership crisis (draught), which has plagued Israel since the departure of Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, the People of the Jewish State have displayed systematic resilience and optimism, in defiance of Palestinian terrorism, political uncertainly and occasional economic downturns. According to the 2008 Survey of Patriotism – among […]

Oct. 2, 2008 Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST Outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has never been a shrinking violent. And on Monday, he made clear that he has absolutely no intention of leaving the public stage quietly. In a Rosh Hashana interview with Yediot Aharonot, Olmert admitted for the first time that he is […]

By Robert Spencer FrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, October 03, 2008 Khaleel Mohammed, a professor at San Diego State University and a popular “moderate Muslim,” burnished his credentials as a “moderate” by appearing in the film Obsession, the famous exposé of Islamic jihad activity. For several years now since the film originally appeared he seemed perfectly happy […]