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The headlines used words like “outrage” and “shock” in describing the news that a man thought to be a Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) rabbi living in Jerusalem was allegedly a Gentile Christian missionary. How could this be?According to various news outlets, neither he nor his late wife were Jews at all, using forged documents to become Israeli citizens and choosing a Haredi lifestyle in order to infiltrate the religious community.The Jewish News reported, “Outrage in Jerusalem over ‘rabbi’ exposed as Christian missionary. Israeli media say the man, named as Michael Elkohen, infiltrated a Haredi community in a bid to convert its members.”...

Editor's Note: This piece was co-authored by Bruce Abramson.With little fanfare, the 2020 Republican National Convention highlighted several sources of great pride for the American Jewish community. Secretary Pompeo’s speech from the very heart of the Jewish people, with the Western Wall and Temple Mount as backdrop—highlighted the deep, warm relationship between the United States and the Jewish State. Pompeo’s message illustrated that the bond far transcends military and intelligence cooperation; it grows from a visceral kinship between these two covenantal nations. “This very city of G-d,” intoned Pompeo, “Jerusalem, the rightful capital of the Jewish homeland.” Amen and Hallelujah....

Reacting to a poll published Monday in the Yediot Ahronot daily showing that 51 percent of Israelis believed the 'road map' would not lead to an agreement, but 56 percent believed Israel should agree to the plan regardless, former MK and staunch settelement proponent Elyakim Haetzni said supporters of the plan reminded him of Holocaust-era Jews who "willingly boarded those trains believing everything that the Germans told them." Calling the Cabinet's decision to adopt the internationally backed 'road map' "an act of "national treason" and a "national catastrophe", Haetzni said Sunday's decision was "a historic day in the same sense...

JEWISH COMMUNITIES ON THE WEST BANK ARE AN OBSTACLE TO WAR By Don Feder September 27, 2002 The most widely accepted myth of Arab propagandists is that Jewish communities (AKA: settlements) in Judea and Samaria (AKA: The West Bank) are an obstacle to peace. The opposite is true: They are a barrier to the final jihad planned by Yasser Arafat and his unholy warriors. Jewish roots are sunk deep in the hill country of Judea and Samaria – the region’s names from Biblical times until the Jordanian occupation of 1948-1967, when the Hashemite Kingdom renamed the area the West Bank...