A roundup of the most talked about political and global stories in the Jewish world this week:
Ruckus on the Mount
“A small but growing movement by Jewish activists demanding the right to pray at the site of their destroyed temple, in the heart of this disputed capital’s Old City, is creating a potentially explosive clash with the Muslim world, which considers the spot holy and bans Jews from public worship there,” ” target=”_blank”>here.) It's provoked some new uproar in kind: “No matter what the Obama administration is able to force Israel to surrender to Mahmoud Abbas, it won’t be able to ignore the Temple Mount,” ” target=”_blank”>said Leo Rennert at American Thinker.
Israel vs. media?
The Foreign Press Association this week ” target=”_blank”>issued a complaint along these lines. “But at least their crude attempts to blind the messengers of truth will serve to show the world exactly what 'brand Israel' is really like,”