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Israel Pitches In With Disaster Relief After Hurricane SandyMembers of various NGOs put Israeli knowhow to work, getting food, fuel and other supplies to emergency workers and victims.New York --- When ISRAEL21c spoke with Israel relief volunteer Joel Leyden in New York yesterday, he had just received a phone call from the Nassau County Office of Emergency Management on New York’s Long Island. “They confirmed that there is a police escort waiting to bring in Israel Flying Aid’s delivery of fuel, which will go to county hospitals to be dispensed to doctors and nurses so they will be able to...

Today is the day we elect a new president. Whoever gets elected will face a challenge far greater than any framed during this election season. I suspect that one candidate knows it, or at least senses it. The other is blind to it or isn’t talking. In his address to the Democratic National Convention, President Obama called out candidate Romney for his belief that Russia is “our number-one enemy.” Obama chided Romney, “you’re new to foreign policy!” At first glance, Mr. Romney could have come up with a long list of enemies. He could have characterized Russia in any number...

Let us all now join together in helping Obama in his efforts to assure Israel’s security. President Barack Obama won reelection by a significant majority of the electoral college. The Jewish, pro-Israel Democratic vote helped him in Florida, Ohio and even Virginia, but he might have won at least some of those battleground states without Jewish support. Even those Jews who berated Democrats like me for supporting President Obama’s reelection, must now realize that our support for the president will be good for Israel over the next four years. Recall what former Secretary of State James Baker, who served under...

Obama supporters out celebrating his win on election night gathered on State Street Tuesday evening. I asked one man why he was celebrating Obama, and what that meant to him. He said, "It really means to me, no more Israel...Mitt Romney would go to war with Iran...Obama said f*** that sh*t. Kill those mother f***ers." Another said, "Palestine was there first, and Israel moved in in the 1940s and that's an unfair attack." A man of Jewish heritage accompanying him said, "I really do not think that us being with Israel is a good choice for us":(continued w/video)

Obama supporters celebrating his election night win discuss Israel and Netanyahu.

In his re-election victory, Democrat Barack Obama narrowly defeated Republican Mitt Romney in the national popular vote (50% to 48%)1. Obama’s margin of victory was much smaller than in 2008 when he defeated John McCain by a 53% to 46% margin, and he lost ground among white evangelical Protestants and white Catholics. But the basic religious contours of the 2012 electorate resemble recent elections – traditionally Republican groups such as white evangelicals and weekly churchgoers strongly backed Romney, while traditionally Democratic groups such as black Protestants, Hispanic Catholics, Jews and the religiously unaffiliated backed Obama by large margins.

I’d like to believe that President Barack Obama's re-election means nothing significant for U.S.-Israel relations, since “all Democratic and Republican presidents over the past four decades have been solidly pro-Israel” — as Deputy Prime Minister Silvan Shalom argued on Israel Radio this morning. But Shalom is putting a pretty face on a forbidding situation. Obama’s re-election means that Ehud Olmert is going to run against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the upcoming Jan. 2013 Israeli election. It means that Obama is going to intervene aggressively in our election to boost Olmert. It means that a push for immediate Palestinian statehood...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem A New Journey…The Names of God in The Scriptures My Refuge and my Strength Psalm 46:1 Psalm 46:1 (KJV) God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Israel has had contingency plans for this. It is now the time they feared. The contingency plan must now be put into effect. Since its independence in 1948, Israel has been surrounded by its enemies but it could always count on having the USA in its corner. NOT ANYMORE. Israel had hoped that Romney would win and thus be there when the day arrived that Iran would have to be attacked. America would have been there and Israel would not have had to carry all the burden. America would have taken part and would also have restrained Israel to a...

Horny Women Vote for Democrats Happy Sports Fans Vote for Incumbents People Vote For the Same Reasons They Buy Designer Jeans Why Do People Vote? Because They Are Registered People Voted for Bush in 2004 Because He Had a Manly Face Old People Vote Out of Habit

Pinni Shendorfi, the Haredi soldier from Nahal who refused the orders of his commanders to evacuate Jewish residents from three residential buildings in Yitzhar last Thursday, was brought before a court Tuesday and was removed from his combat position. Shendorfi refused the orders, saying he will not take part in a "mission against Jews." Pinni's mother, Ronit, said her son was not worried about possible jail time but was more worried that he would be taken out of combat, where he very much wanted to remain. ....

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem A New Journey…The Names of God in The Scriptures My Sun and my Shield Psalm 84:11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD bestows favor and honor; no good thing does he withhold from those whose walk is blameless.

Paul Berman, the New York intellectual, is perhaps the most penetrating and imaginative essayist writing about Islamist movements and ideas alive today. In 2010 he published The Flight of the Intellectuals, a stylish account of the Muslim Brotherhood: the Islamist political movement founded in Egypt in 1928 by Hassan al-Banna (known in Arabic as al-Ikhwan al-Muslimeen). According to Berman, the party was shaped decisively in both its ideology and organisational methods by mid-century European totalitarianism and was a politically hardened, ideologically-driven and anti-Semitic movement. It was from this inconvenient truth that much of the western media and many public intellectuals...

Israel Flying Aid Gives Food, Generators, Gas To Hurricane Sandy New York, New Jersey Victims(photo) Roger Parrott, Jacob Parrott and Joel Leyden deliver a generator and gas to a Hurricane Sandy New York victim. Photo: Rebecca McCann / INA By Karen Levy Israel News AgencyNew York, NY --- November 4, 2012 ... Israel Flying Aid, the Israeli global humanitarian organization which was first to land in Haiti following the 2010 earthquake, has been distributing large supplies of gas to hospitals, food, batteries and generators to Hurricane Sandy victims. "We have many years of disaster relief experience," said Israel Flying Aid...

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem has warned that it may shut its doors to pilgrims in protest at a dispute with an Israeli water company, reports the BBC. The church, where many Christians believe Jesus was crucified, has had its bank account frozen at the request of Hagihon over an unpaid $2.3m bill. The dispute has left hundreds of priests, monks and teachers unpaid. The church has traditionally not been charged for water, but Hagihon says it is owed money for the past 15 years. According to the Israeli newspaper Maariv, there was a tacit agreement between...

Chris Van Hollen is pretending to be a bi-partisan compromiser now that the district 8 demographics have changed. Don't fall for it. Van Hollen is an ultra-left wing Democrat in the same mold as Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem A New Journey…The Names of God in The Scriptures My Light and my Salvation (Adonai ori veyish'i)Psalm 27:1 The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? (Psalm 27:1)

An influential paper with the Orthodox Jewish Community in New York, the Jewish Star, strongly endorsed Mitt Romney for president today. The editorial was titled, "The New Jewicide," and clearly delineated why Barack Obama is dangerous for the Jewish people and the State of Israel. As the writer stated: Obama’s bad positions on Israel and terrorism during his first term will only worsen in a second when he would no longer need financial support from major Jewish donors and electoral support from Jewish voters. Just like he told Russian President Mevedev Obama will have more flexibility in a second term...

A group of Jews that ascended the Temple Mount Sunday were shocked to see that ancient beams of wood that had apparently been used during the period of the Holy Temple were being used as firewood by Arabs on the Mount, and off it. Archaeologists have dated the wood as far back as the First Temple period, and appear to be among the celebrated “Cedars of Lebanon” mentioned in the Tanach.

On the election map, the State of Israel is not just blue and white; it is solidly red. The Presidential election results are in. Well, at least the votes from Americans in Israel. Not one to keep readers in suspense, I’ll reveal the most important numbers up front: Gov. Mitt Romney received 85%–85%!–of the vote; President Obama managed only 14.3%. This, according to exit polling just released by iVoteIsrael, the non-partisan group promoting and facilitating voting by U.S. citizens currently in Israel. Their statistics reveal some fascinating results. More importantly, these results have implications for the outcome of next week’s...