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Parashat Va’yaitzai 5776: Rejecting Invitations
You can find my German translation on my main website. [FAB]
Learning Torah has a myriad of benefits, not least of which is that one who has wide access to the writings of Chazal will never be taken by surprise by anything which occurs in human experience.
You can find my German translation on my main website. [FAB]
The #1 question I receive – several times a day – is this: “Shmuel, what can we do to solve the problem of Arab terror in Israel?” I certainly understand why people ask this question since almost every day, knife attacks are perpetrated across the country. Just this week, Jews were stabbed in Rishon LeZion and Netanya, adding these cities to the sad list of cities in which (more…)
You can find my German translation on my main website. [FAB]
Journalist Shalom Yerushalmi wrote that the current ‘Knife Intifada’ broke out because of me. Since the assassination attempt on Rabbi Yehudah Glick a year ago, PM Netanyah, taking his directive from the Muslim wakf, prohibits me from visiting the Temple Mount. So the claim that a year after I was personally exiled from the Mount, the Arabs have suddenly remembered Feiglin – and because of him, have started to slaughter Jews in the streets – sounds absurd. (more…)
(Ed. [JG] note: Definitely not the politically correct answer but so what. Feiglin is right. Europe is over, done, stick a fork in it. Perhaps go see it one more time to see what it looked like before it becomes the caliphate that it is destined to become. They sent Jews out in boxcars and now this is what’s coming back.)
You can find my German translation on my main website. [FAB]
“More and more politicians are publicly calling upon Israel to open its gates to the Syrian refugee,” said Moshe Feiglin on Sunday. “It began with (more…)
You can find my German translation on my main website. [FAB]
“Hillel said: do not separate from the community” (Avot 2:4)
So where is the American Jewish community on the matter of the Iran nuclear deal? In truth, better than expected, notwithstanding the noisy pockets (more…)
Israel has given terrorists the ultimate weapon.
You can find my German translation on my main website. [FAB]
As soon as Israel entered into negotiations with the hunger-striking terrorist, Muhammad Alan, he won. It makes no difference for how long (more…)
In all the catastrophes of the last few years world wide, Israel’s engagement was as big as that of countries ten times its size and wealth and it usually came more quickly and more effectively. But nowhere in the German or international press could I ever find one word about it, except in pages specializing on Israel. Shmuel Sackett regards it as a mistake to make oneself everybody’s lackey. There are several older and more experienced acquaintances of mine, who refuse to give help and advice privately without remuneration, not from being stingy but because they’re fed up being disdained out of a feeling of “what doesn’t cost anything can’t be worth much”.
You can find my German translation on my main website. [FAB]
The purpose of the agreement being drawn up with Iran is not to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power. The agreement will simply be a fig leaf for the world leaders who have already accepted a nuclear Iran as fact.
You can find my German translation on my main website. [FAB]
More than one hundred thousand weapons grade, precise missiles (some of them guided missiles) are lurking on Israel’s northern border. In the era of Google Earth, it is easy to aim them at any strategic target anywhere in Israel. (more…)
For thousands of years the Jews dreamed of reclaiming their country. The left had another dream.
You can find my German translation on my main website. [FAB]
It dreamed of a country run by bureaucrats that worked only three days a week. It dreamed of unions running monopolies that worked whenever they liked and charged whatever they wanted. It dreamed of children raised on collective farms without parents and of government as a Socialist café debate.
