The Jerusalem Tinderbox
I recorded this latest bloggingheads episode with Jerusalem lawyer Daniel Seidemann before Temple Mount activist…
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“American Values” and “Standing With Israel”
On Capitol Hill yesterday, a glorious fall afternoon, John Cougar Mellencamp’s “R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A.” and…
Read MoreIsrael’s Chief Rabbis Say No to Christian Zionist Event
Israel’s Chief Rabbis have issued a statement condemning an upcoming event sponsored by the Christian…
Read MoreAmerican Conservatives, Jewish Law, and Israel’s New Abortion Policy
Why aren’t American anti-choice groups up in arms?
Read MoreConservatives, Messianic Jews, and the Jews
A conservative Israeli group takes issue with American conservatives.
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How the Messianic Jews Story is Playing in Israel
Is there even awareness?
Read MoreGingrich, Israel, and the Assassinate Obama Comments
What’s to come when a right wing billionaire funnels money to Newt and a columnist jokes about killing the president?
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Apocalypse Now and Then: Our Global Death Wish
What ought we do about millennial thinking in our day? If the combined 1300 pages of these two books have taught me anything, it’s that we can’t make it just go away. There is something fascinating, and perverse, in the human psyche that seems to yearn for this world to be other than how it is, even if that means destroying it.
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Romney, Tisha B’Av, and LDS Temples
Will Romney want to talk about LDS Temples being modeled on Solomon’s?
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A Neoconservative Jesus, Certified Kosher
After some perfunctory praise of the last three popes, Boteach gets down to his Glenn Beck-ish business: “The American Evangelical community has proven the most stalwart and reliable friend of Israel in the United States.” Christians and Jews are now “brothers” because “together they confront the implacable foe of Islamist terrorism.”
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