(This is a speech that Sarah Stern delivered to Beth Jacob Congregations in Los Angeles) We recently celebrated the 62nd anniversary of the establishment of the state of Israel. The scratchy video tape of that momentous vote in the United Nations will be forever etched on the collective memories our generation. And as you...
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By Sarah Stern & Kyle Shideler, with Special Thanks to Arlene Kushner of the Center for Near East Policy Research UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Work Agency for Palestinian Refugees, had been established on December 8th 1949 to “carry out…direct relief and works programs” for Palestinian refugees by the United Nations General Assembly,...
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(A version of this article also appears in today’s Washington Jewish Weekly) Jerusalem- I am sitting on a terrace overlooking the Judean Hills, framing the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament building. The early morning sun has bathed the new day in a majestic splendor. My grandfather, a sweet, learned rabbi from Europe, who saw much...
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The following is a guest-post from Rachel Kapen: Since the establishment of the Jewish State, the State of Israel, in May 14, 1948, it’s adversaries underscored their strong belief that the state is illegal and that Palestine belongs- and belonged- to the Arabs and Jews are occupiers of Arab land. Putting aside the Jewish...
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Kafka is alive and well and lives in a building in Turtle Bay, New York, called the United Nations. The United Nations had been a very noble experiment. Conceived in the midst of the earthquake to the civilized world that was the Holocaust, the premeditated, systematic attempted total annihilation of the European Jewish community,...
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From Eli. E. Hertz comes a quite detailed deconstruction of the ICJ deliberations against the Israeli Security barrier. To quote a snippet: Nevertheless, the ICJ’s opinion needs to be addressed not only due to the biased manner in which it weighed the ‘evidence’, but also due to the evidence it failed to examine –...
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Legal Project Brooke Goldestein on the Litigation Jihad: The United Nations recently passed resolutions that would make “defaming” Islam a globally criminal act. The United Kingdom first refused entry to Geert Wilders, a sitting European Parliament member and Islamist critic, and now has issued a list banning 16 other individuals, which includes some banned...
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Not really news to anyone but the Associated Press, but it’s nice of him to say so (From the Jerusalem Post): “It creates an atmosphere of intimidation in the context of the upcoming parliamentary elections. It also undermines the stability of the region, and is incompatible with the objectives of Resolution 1559,” he added,...
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