GUEST POST: Joshua chapter 23 verse 12
GUEST POST by Mr. CohenJoshua chapter 23 verse 12DID YOU KNOW:In the Biblical Book of Joshua, chapter 13, G_d rebuked the prophet Joshua for failing to conquer the entire Land of Israel?DID YOU KNOW:In...
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Worrying Antidemocratic Phenomenon
Yitzhak Rabin (photo credit: Flash90)Over twenty years ago, when Yitzchak Rabin was Prime Minister of Israel and complaining against the growing popular protests against his approval/acceptance of the...
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Lieberman: Right, Left, Center or Consistently Inconsistent?
It's pretty hard to pin a political ideology on Israel's Defense Minister, Avigdor Lieberman.Avigdor Liberman of the Yisrael Beiteinu party leading a news conference at the Knesset, May 18,...
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The "Sacrifice" of Issac to Serve Gd and The Jewish People
credit העקדה באיור איסלאמי בשיראזI really don't like the English title/translation of the Torah story we read this Shabbat, The "Sacrifice" of Issac. The Hebrew עקידת יצחק Akeidat Yitzchak doesn't...
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Who Said That Trump's Not a Politician?
There's a very important characteristic in politicians. They can act charming and friendly even with people who have maligned and insulted them, people they really can't stand with good reason. To be a...
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Blurring The Truth
On Shabbat, when I read Laura Ben-David's article about the Arab-Jewish photography course she had taken recently, It Takes Two Villages, it reminded me of my experiences in the almost six years I had...
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Blogging Elsewhere, Popularity
Never quite knowing how to pull off a free lance career, I'm a blogger, giving my articles and writing and knowledge away for free. At least on Arutz 7, which is a popular news site, I know that I have...
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Has Bibi Been in Power "Forever?"
Menachem Begin, creditA whole generation of Israelis has grown up knowing just one Prime Minister, and with some short exceptions, two generations or more only know only one ruling party, the...
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Next Week is...
Rosh Chodesh Kislev!!Think about the Chanukah story, when the Greeks forbade the Jewish People from observing Jewish Law, praying in the Holy Temple and worse. I wonder if Shiloh was also forbidden to...
View ArticleGUEST POST: NYT Erases Israel from Map
GUEST POST by Mr. CohenNew York Times Erases Israel from Map (2016/11/23):http://matzav.com/hikind-blasts-new-york-times-for-excluding-israel-on-map-of-middle-east/For me, the most frustrating part of...
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Sadly Deja Vu, Thousands of Years Later
We the Jewish People are amazingly lucky. Gd keeps giving us more chances, after we fail to heed His warnings. This week listening to Yael Ziegler in Matan, "Kings, Prophets and Hurban," I kept feeling...
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Davka in "Red" Haifa...
Haifa was always known as the "red city," but they weren't talking about flames and anti-fire chemicals.Firefighting aircraft in Haifa (Photo: Evyatar Alkobi)YnetnewsHaifa:As an industrial port city,...
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Latest News: Fires are New Arab Terror Tool
At first it seemed like the fires that had begun all over Israel were just more of the periodic late summer, pre-rain fires that are almost spontaneous in climates like Israel. A month ago, after a...
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The "Aishtafada" Arab Arson Terror Continues
As further proof that the Arabs hate this Land and are only demanding a state to kick out Jews and form another judenrein apartheid state, they've been intentionally burning up Jewish communities all...
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Fire on My Mind
The aishtafada has wiped out, or burnt up, the rest of my thoughts right now. Imagine a family relaxing on Shabbat, removed from all the weekday concerns, television off, cellphone off and suddenly...
View ArticleGUEST POST: Joshua chapter 13 verse 1
GUEST POST by Mr. Cohen:Joshua, chapter 13, verse 1In the Biblical Book of Joshua, chapter 13, verse 1, G_d rebuked the prophet Joshua for failing to conquer the entire Land of Israel for the nation of...
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Aishtafada: Israel on Receiving End of Help/Aid
When my sons were teens they both volunteered in the local fire station, which in Hebrew is called כיבוי חילוץ Kibu'i Chilutz, Fire-Put-Out and Rescue. It's call that, because until pretty recently in...
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Dumb Question: Voter Identity in USA, Easy to Cheat?
As you may know, I've never voted in American Elections. We made aliyah a couple of months before my first possibility. In those days, voting age was twenty-one 21. I turned the age in May, got on the...
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Thankful Shiloh isn't Surrounded by Forests and Parks
The other morning, while riding to work in Kochav Hashachar, which is southeast of Shiloh, I took a good look at the view, at the land and lack of trees once we passed the small groves of olive trees...
View ArticleGUEST POST: How to Convict the New York Times
How to Convict the New York Times(a guest post by Mr. Cohen) How can we PROVE that the New York Times suffers from a relentless anti-Israel bias?[1] Go to www.aish.com. Find the text box that says...
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