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Nutty Rabbis Feel Obligated to Prohibit Non-Jews From Living in Israel

Dozens of Israel’s municipal chief rabbis signed on to the ruling, which comes just months after the chief rabbi of Safed initiated a call urging Jews to refrain from renting or selling apartments to non-Jews.

Signatories include the chief rabbis of Ramat Hasharon, Ashdod, Kiryat Gat, Rishon Letzion, Carmiel, Gadera, Afula, Nahariya, Herzliya, Nahariya and Pardes [...]

Being Pro-Israel and on the Left

Jay Michelson has stirred up a bit of a storm with his article in the Forward, How I’m Losing My Love For Israel, in which he writes:

First, I admit, it has become simply exhausting to maintain the ambivalence, the hugging and the wrestling, the endless fence sitting. My love of Israel has turned into a [...]

When is a Sukkah Not a Sukkah?

“Members of the Land of Israel Faithful movement have come up with a new way to fight a proposed building freeze in Judea and Samaria. The movement is asking residents of the area to build the traditional temporary Sukkot dwellings – and to leave them up long after the holiday is over.”
Arutz7 (Also see: JPost)

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America’s Original Policy Was To Call the Settlements Illegal

From the Johnson administration through the Carter administration, the official US stance was that Israeli settlements were illegal – in all territory taken in 1967, including the West Bank, which in turn includes East Jerusalem. Ronald Reagan, taking a position that could be termed voodoo law, said settlements were “not illegal,” though they were ”unnecessarily [...]