| Did a 1738 artist anticipate a Third Temple using the Dome of the Rock?noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 24 Jan 05:45 AM I did a quick survey through t | | I did a quick survey through the earliest printed Haggadot on Google Books which showed a depiction of Jerusalem and the Temple inside. The earliest I found was from Amsterdam in 1695. This 1712 edition, also from Amsterdam, has a beautiful woodcut of Jerusalem that looks like it is based on the 1695 one but with much more detail: Here's a 1716 edition, from Rabbi Aharon ben Uri Lipman: There was a 1744 Haggadah whose woodcut that was identical to the Lipman one. The Jerusalem depiction in this 1746 is almost an exact mirror image of the 1695 one: The one picture of the Temple that most interests me is this one, from 1738 and also from Amsterdam, but with a much different woodcut: No...Read More |
Okaz is one of the most popular and influential newspapers in Saudi Arabia.
On Sunday, it published an op-ed by Mohammed Al Saed titled, "Is it time to break with the Palestinian cause?" And his answer is an emphatic "yes." He describes how the Palestinians have been political opponents of Saudi Arabia for over 30 years. In the year 1990, in the fiercest challenge faced by Saudi Arabia and the Arab Gulf states, following Iraq's occupation of Kuwait, nobody was surprised by the Palestinian leadership's support for Saddam. Both inside Palestine and in the diaspora, the Palestinians chanted for Saddam and demanded for him to kill the Saudis and destroy their cities with internationally prohibited weapons. The chants of "Chemical, Saddam, from Khafji to Dammam" still resonate in the Saudis' memory today. 32 years have passed since the invasion of Iraq, and the Palestinians have come out time and again against the Saudis in demonstrations, rallies and burning flags, the last of which was at the beginning of this week in support of the Houthis, and their demand that the Iranian backed terrorists bomb Saudi cities and their civilian targets. The years have changed and the Palestinians have not. They are on the same path, making the same wrong choices, and holding the same grudges that hardly leave their elders until their young ones inherit them. In my opinion, it is time for a rupture with the Palestinian cause, for the...Read More |
Mark Oppenheimer, who recently wrote a book about the Tree of Life massacre in Pittsburgh, wrote an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal where he re-assures American Jews - don't worry about antisemitism unless you do something Jewy, like go to synagogue, wear a kippah or shop in a kosher market. It seems that violent attacks on Jews in the U.S. have become a regular occurrence, like natural disasters. There were deadly shootings at synagogues in Pittsburgh in October 2018 and Poway, Calif., in April 2019, then at a kosher market in Jersey City, N.J., in December 2019. Last weekend, a rabbi and three congregants were taken hostage at Congregation Beth Israel, a Reform synagogue near Fort Worth, Texas.
... But the reality of Jewish Americans' security is more complicated. The recent heightened antipathy toward Jews hasn't been focused on the general Jewish population. Rather, it has targeted the shrinking minority of Jews who regularly do Jewish things in Jewish spaces—go to synagogue, for example, or shop at kosher markets. For Jews who "Jew it," to use a friend's favorite locution, even the very occasional synagogue attack, while statistically insignificant, makes every religious service a little more tense. On the other hand, for people who are Jewish but don't do Jewish things, the U.S. is less oppressive than ever. Fifty years ago, there were still meaningful prejudices...Read More |
From Ian: Bret Stephens: What an Antisemite's Fantasy Says About Jewish Reality A moral conviction of our time, especially prevalent on the cultural left, is that the powerful are presumptively bad while the powerless are presumptively good. These categories aren't just political. They are also social, economic, ethnic and racial. It's why so many conversations today revolve around the concept of "privilege" — a striking redefinition of success that removes the presumption of merit from those who have it and the stigma of failure from those who don't. It's also the likeliest reason there was so much obvious hesitancy to describe the attack in Texas as antisemitic. Unlike the Pittsburgh shooter or the "Jews will not replace us" crowd at Charlottesville — white, right-wing, mostly Christian and therefore "privileged" — the Texas assailant was a British Muslim of Pakistani descent. Not white. Not privileged. Not right-wing. In the binary narrative of the powerful versus the powerless, his naked antisemitism just doesn't compute: Powerless people are supposed to be victims, not murderous bigots. If he had ranted against Israel for oppressing Palestinians, it might have made more sense. And if he had donned a MAGA hat, we would certainly have had a much fuller exploration of his antisemitism, without time wasted exploring his other motives or state of mind. For American Jews, this small silence...Read More |
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Last week, NGO Monitor sent a letter to the UN expressing concern over five of the six candidates being considered for the position of "Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967." In the letter, NGO Monitor noted that "Special Rapporteurs are required to exhibit personal integrity, expertise, independence, impartiality, and objectivity. Unfortunately, at least five of the six eligible candidates (as appear on the OHCHR website) have records of substantial anti-Israel partisanship (see attached report). They cannot be said to fulfill the requirements of impartiality and objectivity as required by HRC resolution 5/1."
The letter was not made public.
But today, Palestinian NGO Al Haq - which has been linked to the PFLP terror group - published the letter.
Which strongly indicates that someone in the UN leaked the letter to an organization with clear links to terror, that is now being investigated by the European Commission for possible terror ties.
Shawan Jabarin, Al Haq's general director, is a convicted terrorist who maintains his membership and ties to the PFLP. (And he is also a member of Human Rights Watch Middle East...Read More |
Here are some of the antisemitic articles in Arabic media from today. MENAFN has a column that begins: What characterizes the Zionist movement is its hostility to all human beings, selfish behavior, devoid of all noble human values. It is a destructive, arrogant movement directed by Machiavelli's theory (the end justifies the means)...
Zionism is the most dangerous movement in human history, because they do not despair and do not rush matters. What is important to them is that they achieve what they want and achieve their goals. To demonstrate this, I would like to remind you of the first conference of the Zionist movement, which was held in Basel, Switzerland, in 1897, chaired by Theodor Herzl. Decades ago I read interpretations of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion... Al Mal News has a story titled "The historical roots of Israeli psychopathy" that traces this supposed psychopathy from Jewish lust for wealth - somehow symbolized by the story of the Golden Calf - through...Read More |
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