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The 2008 presidential election is more about national security than the economy, the chairman of Sen. John McCain’s New York campaign said this morning. In an eight-minute speech to New York delegates at a breakfast Monday morning Ed Cox referred to 9/11 five different times and told New Yorkers they would face another attack […]

“In the wake of an outcry from Chicago-area Jews, the Windy City’s only Jewish museum closed down a high-profile maps exhibition that parsed the issue of Israel’s borders and boundaries. The Spertus Museum, part of the 84-year-old Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies, located on Chicago’s South Loop, announced June 20 that it was shutting down […]

The Muslim-outreach coordinator to the presidential campaign of Barack Obama has resigned amid questions about his involvement in an Islamic investment fund and various Islamic groups. WSJ

“Rabbi Yosef Dimechovsky, a Lubavitcher who works in the Machon Hamikdash took us for a tour in the narrow passages of the Jewish Quarter in the Old City and then we followed him to one of the roofs that looks out to the Western Wall and the Temple Mount. (skip) He points to the Temple […]

SPIEGEL: Mr. de Winter, your new book — “The Right of Return” — is a novel, but it actually describes a political vision. In the book, it is the year 2024, and Israel has shrunk to just a few square kilometers around Tel Aviv, which is surrounded by enemies. Are you simply playing with some […]

Idan of Arabia Ynet
“Al-Jazeera television network dedicates one hour of its broadcasting to interview with Israeli singer Idan Raichel”
“Israeli musician Idan Raichel was recently interviewed on Al-Jazeera, a news network that Israel has boycotted for what it called incitement to terror. The interview took place on a program the Qatari-based network’s English language channel devoted […]

“Instead the outrage was directed at a huge mosque planned for the area. Still, the words used by the project’s opponents called to mind the protests of earlier times. “The minarets even look like missiles,” railed one woman. A man said the mosque’s dome reminded him “of a nuclear plant.”” Spiegel