Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel
This past Friday night, we rejoiced when we heard the news about Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi, who was finally released from having spent 214 days in a horrible Mexican prison.
For those of you who are unfamiliar with this story, Tahmooressi was arrested on March 31 after he made a wrong turn in Mexico. Although he was aware he had entered Mexico with these weapons, he could not make a U-Turn because the flow of traffic did ...
What happens when a fly falls into a coffee cup? Here’s a list of responses:
The Italian throws the cup and walks away in a fit of rage
The Frenchman takes out the fly, and drinks the coffee
The Chinese eats the fly and throws away the coffee
The Israeli sells the coffee to the Frenchman, the fly to the Chinese, then buys himself a new cup of coffee and uses the extra money to invent ...
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In the technological age we are living in, a person can just about make up anything regarding conflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere. Given the ubiquity of illusion, we must wonder: Did this conversation actually take place between the President and the Israeli Prime Minister?
Now here is the transcript that appeared in the Israeli news on Channel One:
Damning evidence has emerged of US President Barack Obama’s dismissal of Israel’s position in ...
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Finis Leavell Beauchamp, The Terrible Beauty of the Evil Man
Kodesh Press (New York, 2014); 396 pages; ISBN-13: 978-0692237885
Price $14.95
Philo of Alexandria once said that every person who has ever become a proselyte walks a similar path that Abraham, our Father, once walked. According to Jewish folklore, Abraham came from a highly dysfunctional home. One legend tells us that his father Terah had his son arrested for breaking the idols of his father’s business. Yes, for ...
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No Mas Hamas!
Yasser Arafat’s estate was worth almost one billion dollars by the time he had died.[1] It wasn’t because he was an enterprising capitalist. However, he did manage to take a substantial cut of money from the billions of dollars that the Western countries of Europe and the United States gave since he became the leader of the PLO.
This past week, the United States ...
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