Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent speech endorsing a Palestinian state is a rather clear though not particularly far-reaching attempt to placate President Obama and his new get-tough attitude toward Israel’s settlement policy.
“Fear O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is One.” No, it’s not a typo. The Shema, which starts “Hear O Israel,” is the central credo of the Jewish people. It states that there is only one God — and as a result, only one set of divinely authored ethics and imperatives.
TJ Leyden, 43, spent 15 years as a leader in the white supremacist movement. He covered his body with Nazi tattoos and advocated violence against Jews and other minorities. And then the scales fell from his eyes, and Leyden realized he’d been living a lie and dragging others into it.
Within minutes of last week’s shooting at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., Temple Isaiah on West Pico Boulevard received an alert from its security service indicating that the on-site security guards should implement high-alert procedures. By the end of the day, the LAPD had sent an officer out to meet personally with the director.
John Fishel’s e-mail box has been overflowing with some 150 messages protesting the elimination, for budgetary reasons, of special programs for the Russian Jewish community.
After two months of intense American pressure, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu finally uttered the magic words: two states for two peoples.
Since entering Congress in 2007, Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) has made the Middle East a priority, traveling to the region on a number of occasions and meeting with parties to the primary conflicts.
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