\”You don\’t protect Israel and deter Iran just by talking tough in Washington. You can\’t truly stand up for Georgia when you\’ve strained our oldest alliances … \”\n\n
Last week, The Rev. Pat Robertson apparently decided that he\’d better have the government of Israel on his side, too, especially if he wants to build a sprawling evangelical center on the shores of the Sea of Galilee.
It\’s not every day that Israel\’s No. 1 soldier expresses doubts about the country\’s long-term survival. But that was part of a bleak message from Lt. Gen. Moshe Ya\’alon that has shaken the country\’s political establishment.
In a wide-reaching, early June interview in the daily newspaper, Ha\’aretz, the retiring Israeli army chief of staff pulled no punches. He put key existential issues on the table, questioned the wisdom of Israel\’s planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and northern West Bank, debunked the notion of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and said it could lead to a \”situation in which there will be no Israel here in the end.\”
I don\’t know how many times I\’ve been in a conversation with a Christian who suddenly out of nowhere asked, \”What do you think of Neusner?\” They don\’t even feel a need to mention the man\’s first name, which is Jacob, assuming that as a Jew I would obviously be familiar with the rabbi and scholar who, for non-Jews interested in Judaism, is the No. 1 go-to guy.
When a Christian wants to know something about Judaism, which lately more and more do, a typical first course of action is a visit to Barnes & Noble, to the Jacob Neusner section of the Judaica shelves. His singularity is worth pondering.
A Jewish teenager in Ventura County has filed a federal lawsuit against the Conejo Valley Unified School District (CVUSD), alleging that his high school coach and teammates repeatedly made anti-Semitic remarks to him and that school officials were indifferent to his complaints.
The following are remarks and an amendment introduced by Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) on March 19 to the House Energy Subcommittee that propose an alternative energy strategy for the United States.
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