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Dial Three for Arabic for Public Assistance in Michigan, USA 15 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
These immortal words were written by a Jewish-American woman, Emma Lazarus, whose roots are Sephardic; her words are inscribed on the American Statue of Liberty and have welcomed countless immigrants ...
Cinematic Apartheid, the Folly of Appeasement, and the Righteous Artists of our Time 25 Jul 2013 | 07:00 pm
Why did Haifa's International Film Festival wish to honor filmmaker Mira Nair for her film "The Reluctant Fundamentalist"? The film is just another exceptionally well done piece of anti-American propa...
Excluding Women from the Ezrat Nashim is a Crime Before God 10 Jul 2013 | 07:00 pm
I have just read through the many comments in response to my piece "Mean Girls at the Western Wall." I want to thank so many people for reading my words. I have heard from some people privately as wel...
"Mean Girls" at the Western Wall 9 Jul 2013 | 07:00 pm
Yesterday, the Women of the Wall (WOW), tried to pray at Jerusalem's Western Wall but were met, instead, with a solid wall of female hatred. Thousands of ultra-Orthodox (haredi) high school girls and ...
Family Feuds, Wild East Style 2 Jul 2013 | 07:00 pm
Yesterday, The Wall Street Journal had a front page story: As U.S. Pulls Out, Feuds Split Afghanistan's Ruling Family. This title is both comic and tragic but it is not "news". "A Ruling Family feud" ...
Op-Ed: L'Attentat: Suicide Bombing as a Female Career Option 26 Jun 2013 | 07:00 pm
An Arab doctor and his suicide bomber wife are the focus of a complex film banned in Lebanon. I have just seen Lebanese director Zind Doueiri's prize-winning film, "L'Attentat" (The Attack). The film ...
Hacked - Thank You! 20 Jun 2013 | 07:00 pm
Anumber of prominent anti-Jihadists were all hacked last night. I am proud to be among them. I am not "naming names." But here is the story. Someone copied my photo and set up a new Facebook account i...
UNICEF's Blood Libel Against Israel 20 Jun 2013 | 07:00 pm
UNICEF has just released a report which constitutes a Blood Libel against the state of Israel. The UN body claims that Israeli forces have mistreated Palestinian children and have "degraded" and "tort...
Twenty Five Years and Counting No More: Women's Struggle for Religious Rights in Jerusalem 6 Jun 2013 | 07:00 pm
On June 9, 2013, this coming Sunday, the legendary, Jerusalem-based Women of the Wall plan to conduct a full Rosh Chodesh (New Moon) prayer service in the women's section at the Kotel (Western Wall). ...
Mad and Lethal Jew-Hatred Has Taken Front Stage 4 Jun 2013 | 07:00 pm
We did not want to leave Egypt when we were Pharoah's slaves; within weeks, we wanted to return. This longing for the place of one's childhood, the smells and haunts and gravesites of our ancestors al...
