Gleaning the fields

My son has a green thumb. I discovered this today in a field outside Kfar Sava, north of Tel Aviv, as he happily stripped leeks of their roots and dried leaves and carried them from the field to a large shipping crate (see photo at right). He’s not even two years old, but he’s already showing [...]

“Love of the prophet requires hatred of the Jews”

Andrew Bostom fights the pervasive belief that the anti-Semitism common to so many Muslims today is a modern, and alien, influence on what more than 1 billion people call “the religion of peace.”

“The hatred is in Muhammad himself”

Ali Sina: In Islam, it’s not the community that is bad, but the religion. Islam has nothing like ‘Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.’ Islam is full of hatred, and the hatred is in Muhammad himself.

“Islam is gnawing on the core of Palestinian nationalism”

Despite Sheikh Raed Salah’s acknowledged involvement in terrorism, and despite encouraging Israeli Muslims to see themselves as murabitun - a sort of garrisoned sleeper agents preparing to fight their heretic neighbors - he still remains a mere nuisance in the minds of Israeli authorities

Fleeing Arab lands: “They left no Jewish community intact”

Dispelling the fallacy of Jewish happiness under Muslim rule

Moderate Islam: Koranic exegesis

Tawfik Hamid: Muslims have two options: to lose Islam entirely, or to accept a moderate interpretation

“Allah above us in heaven, and Hitler with us on earth”

The Nazi connection to modern Muslim anti-Semitism is undeniable. But what is it, exactly?

Tools for life

Friendship Circle is a wonderland for kids who have attention deficit disorders, autism, Down syndrome, cerebral palsy – anybody who feels awkward and “anybody,” says founder Bassie Shemtov, “who just needs a friend”

Hagee, the Holocaust and Israel

Israel and the Jewish community are missing the point in the Hagee-Holocaust scandal.

Right of refusal

40 years after Israel’s victory in the Six Day War gave Soviet Jewish protesters the
momentum they needed to open the gates of freedom, the Tel Aviv’s Diaspora Museum opened an exhibit on the movement that toppled the communist regime and energized Zion