What if you had no spending limits this holiday season? You could take that dream ski vacation you’ve always wanted…and buy all new ski gear for your family to take on the trip…wait, why are you renting a cabin? Go ahead and buy that cabin! And don’t forget the private jet that will take you […]
The Temple Mount is a difficult issue because there is a total imbalance between the rights of Muslims and the rights of Jews. And even those who feel Jews should not ascend the mount for halakhic reasons are appalled by that injustice. For the Jewish People, the center of our individual and national being, the […]
by Daniel Pipes November 23, 2013 Angola‘s Minister of Culture Rosa Cruz e Silva is reported to have declared Islam an illegal religion in the country because it is not an approved list of religions, and to have banned it. Comment: It will be interesting to follow this surely-doomed effort. Muslim-majority countries like Saudi Arabia […]
Jewish groups in Canada, and foremost among them the Center for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA), are trying to advance a parliamentary committee’s recommendation calling on the government to recognize the refugee status of Jewish refugees as part of its policy around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Roughly 800,000 Jews were expelled from Arab countries around the time of […]
House Analysis: This week, the House may vote on the farm bill conference report, which is a tentative framework reconciling the flawed House and Senate farm bills. One of the glaring flaws in the compromise is that it replaces direct payments — a program that pays farmers even when they have not produced anything that year — with a new […]
The international chemical weapons watchdog said Friday it has verified the destruction of all of Syria’s unfilled munitions, another milestone along the road to eradicating President Bashar Al-Assad’s chemical weapons program by mid-2014, reports The Associated Press (AP). The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said in a statement quoted by AP that its […]
Today marks the 72nd anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. As Americans reflect on what President Franklin D. Roosevelt called “a date which will live in infamy,” let us also remember the resolve Americans and the U.S. military showed in response. The attack killed over 2,400 Americans, destroyed nearly 200 aircraft, and sunk or […]
It’s no coincidence that most conservatives would agree that taxes are too high and that Obamacare should be repealed. Or that most progressives would argue that we need “the rich” to “pay just a little bit more” and that the government should have a central role in delivering health insurance. This divide had to originate […]
A military court in Gaza on Thursday sentenced a man to death by hanging, the Bethlehem-based Ma’an news agency reported. The Hamas-run court found the man – identified only as A.K. – guilty of collaborating with Israeli authorities, without providing further details, said the news agency. On June 22, the Gaza government hanged two men […]
Tunisian rapper Alaa Yacoubi, known as “Weld El 15,” was sentenced to 4 months in a trial Thursday that found him guilty of songs “insulting to police.” After sentencing, he was ordered to be taken straight to prison. The music video of Yacoubi’s song “Boulicia Kleb,” which criticizes police and shows video clips of them […]
