If Mahmoud were Menachem…

Ok, so, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad might have been born Jewish, as a report in the Telegraph claims.
The knee-jerk reaction to this is to snicker at the irony of the situation. After all, what could be funnier than the greatest single enemy of the Jewish people currently living having Jewish roots?
(Now that these allegations have surfaced, they’ll [...]

Mr. Smith challenges the pope

He’s enjoying lunch in the lobby of the Ramada Renaissance Hotel in Jerusalem, speaking casually but knowledgably about Jewish suffering. He’s wearing a “Shema Israel” pendant and recalling the “awe-inspiring” experience of visiting the “Kotel” (Western Wall) during a family to visit to Israel when he was 13. But Stephen D. Smith is not the [...]

Durban II? Yawn…

For the record, I don’t care one whit about Durban II. What I do care about is Bushehr, Natanz and Isfahan. Everything else is just a sideshow, and a waste of time.

Neither flour nor Torah

The collapse of the haredi economy is an opportunity to fix the flaws that are causing it.

An Orthodox oasis

Named for Isaiah’s promise that the desert would blossom like a rose, tiny Tifrah chooses spiritual growth over physical grandeur.

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 [...]

“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.

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?