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Wednesday, November 30, 2022

The Buraq Wall was never where the Kotel is

Palestinian routinely claim that the Kotel, or Western Wall, is really a Muslim shrine - the Buraq Wall, where Mohammed supposedly tethered his flying steed during his miraculous "night journey."It turns out that most Muslims never believed that until the 1929 riots and after Israel built the plaza in front of the Kotel in 1967.The Shaw Commission report of 1930, about the...

We are family: the secret of Israel's success

The Economist reports that the birthrates of Israeli Jews has been rising and that of Arabs in Israel and the territories has been dropping - and the Israeli Jewish birthrate is bucking the trends around the world. In short, the demographic bomb that was predicted for decades to destroy Israel has nearly fizzled. But the article then touches on an important point...

Jordanian news site: Palestinians were the biggest victims of the Holocaust, and Jews are today's Nazis

This was predictable.Columnist Hamada al-Farana at Jordanian news site Ad Dustor writes:The Palestinian Arab people were the most affected peoples in the whole world from the results of the Nazi fascist European massacres against the Jews for several fundamental reasons:Get out the popcorn. First, because we, as Arabs, Muslims and Christians, our culture does not allow...

Retired Reform rabbi adopts Muslim terminology in bizarre attempt at Jewish-Muslim amity

Rabbi Allen Miller is a Reform rabbi who retired in 2006. Lately he has been a prolific writer for Eurasia Review, trying to find commonalities between Judaism, Christianity and Islam.I have no problem with such a quixotic quest. But in order to convince his audience, he adopts Muslim terminology and legends as fact. In one recent article, he notes the similarity...

Iran's Mehr News describes "What does the word 'Zionist' mean?"Written by Hezbollah's "foreign relations official" Khalil Rizk, it is a bizarre description of Judaism from someone who has never met a Jew in his life.Here is what I learned about Judaism/"Zionism":* The followers of the Zionist idea believe in their faith that the Messiah, the Savior, will come at the end of...

Know How to Answer, part 13: "Jews are not a nation"

Nearly six years ago I gave a lecture at Yeshiva University on how to answer anti-Israel arguments. Since the lecture was over an hour and twenty minutes, I decided to break it up into 20 sections, one each to answer one popular anti-Israel argument. Here is part 13, which is very short. We have lots of ideas, but we need more resources to be even more effective. Please donate today to help get the message out and to help defend...

Selichot Friday/Sunday: Jerusalem and Peace, the two things the world tries to take away from the Jewish people

I've been occasionally commenting on some specified piyutim (intricate poems said before and during the High Holy Days) during the Selichot services. I was struck by a pair of piyutim, one from Friday's service and one from Sunday's, in the Ashkenazic order of the service. On Friday, the longest piyut was dedicated to Jerusalem. The author is unknown. The word "Jerusalem"...