Tag Archives: Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpo

it was just a piece of paper

Like a good neighbor? And so ends the peace process. Hey, it was only a scrap of paper ad worth about as much. This could get very ugly. In fact, the entire land for peace charade was a scandal from … Continue reading

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sometimes he feels so uninspired

The post-Zionist era. Every dog of an idea has its day and as pioneer Zionism sees its last flame with religious-nationalist youth erecting cookie cutter shanty-town quality lodging on vacant hilltops on the Judean and Samarian ridgeline, the academic experts … Continue reading

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whole in the soul or a-hole in the journalist?

This kind of shilling for the ruling secular elite in Israel, exemplified politically now through the mouths, of babes, like Yair Lapid sees it mediatic counterpart on the print side with Yossi Sarid, a real hate monger by any objective … Continue reading

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have horse will trample

Stampede in a one horse town. Wild horses could not drag them away…An unwashed mob, scheming to steal the ruling class’s public prestige, the social capital of “neutrality” ; making them look bad. “And after all we’ve done for them!” … Continue reading

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just find a good tree

All’s quiet on the Leftern Front. How can the left massage the data, strain some liberal secular humanism out of the issue of attempted lynching of Sudanese refugees/illegals in the Moslem Israel village of Kfar Manda. Here, they don’t have … Continue reading

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letting them go: the i’s and thou’s of separation

There is a story of the police commissioner under mayor David Dinkins in the early 1990′s , Lee Brown who visited the famous Chabad Rabbi in Crown Heights. In meeting the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Commissioner Lee Brown asked for a blessing; … Continue reading

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cha cha cha: hora from them hilltops

…Livni said she didn’t regret the decisions that may have brought on her political downfall, saying she wasn’t “sorry for not backing down in the face of political blackmail, even when the price was staying outside the government, and for … Continue reading

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what’s in the tea leaves anyway

What happens when the secular confronts the religious. Well, sparks fly. The secular create an artificial and contrived caricature of the religious as fanatical right wing ideologues whose criticism undermines the very nature of democracy. And the religious can counter … Continue reading

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ascending to the temple mount

Twenty-eight years in opposition. Twenty-eight years as head of the official opposition. That was Menachem Begin. No where else in the world would someone ply on, election after election destined for official opposition status. The story goes, that Begin met … Continue reading

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migron: peace for land

The former head of the Mossad, Meir Dagan, says religious jews are the main problem in Israel, the head of the Meretz party, Zahava Galon,  uses the terminology “jew-boys” to describe religious supporters of the settler movement, and the head … Continue reading

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