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Dear Ms. Owens, I have never met you but have appreciated you from your emergence in the public eye, as during that early Congressional hearing and your early debates on Fox with Cornell West. You became a superstar as your career was boosted by the likes of David Horowitz’s Freedom Center, Dennis Prager’s “Prager U.,” and Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire. I would write you privately if I knew how to reach you, but I don’t. Therefore, because I am blessed to write for Israel National News and other publications, I hope this letter reaches you. br> I speak with some...

An Egyptian source has told the Wall Street Journal that the prisoners to be included in the prisoner swap will not be affiliated with Hamas. Earlier on Monday, a diplomatic source told Kan Reshet Bet that although there is progress in negotiations for a prisoner swap, the discussions regarding an imminent ceasefire are "a joke." "There is progress on negotiations to release some of our hostages, but nothing is settled yet," the source told Kan Reshet Bet.

Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar׳s exclusive interview on BBC Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar׳s exclusive interview on BBCIsrael’s longest-running political satire program, Eretz Nehederet, has tackled issues regarding the war with what the director calls an "old Jewish secret: laughing in the face of death." Israeli political satire show Eretz Nehederet, meaning "wonderful country," satirized the BBC and Western media coverage of Israel’s Operation Swords of Iron on Tuesday in a skit featuring a sympathetic mock “interview” with Yahya Sinwar – Hamas’s lead man in Gaza. The interview begins with the actress portraying the BBC anchor announcing an exclusive interview with Sinwar...

A gun battle broke out in the Palestinian Authority-administered city of Shechem (Nablus) in Samaria Wednesday morning, after Israeli forces surrounded a building where a wanted terrorist was hiding. IDF soldiers, Border Police officers, and members of the elite Yamam special forces unit took part in the operation in the Kasbah of Shechem. Terrorists opened fire on the Israeli forces, who responded in kind. Nine terrorists were killed in the gun battle, including two who were involved in the murder of Staff Sergeant Ido Baruch. The 21-year-old soldier was shot and killed by terrorists last year near the town of...

La Shanah Tova to To All Our Jewish Friends on the occasion of Rosh Hashanah (Hebrew: רֹאשׁ הַשָּׁנָה) Shuly Nathan singing Hymn of Glory Bar Mitzvah boy singing with the congregation taking the second part In many synagogues, it has become the custom for Anim Zemirot to be recited by a child.[4]

Beautiful, uplifting poem set to music liturgical song Listen to Yedid Nefesh here

The United States may review its ties with countries it deems as being anti-Israel after what a U.S. envoy said on Sunday was a shift in policy towards equating anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism.

For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring. Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device. And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he...

Jimi Hendrix & John McLaughlin Record Plant N.Y 25 March 69

Litany of the Word

I'm very proud to be the Prime Minister of Israel. A country that says Merry Christmas, first to its Christian citizens, and to our Christian friends around the world! #MerryChristmas

I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm Your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy golden storm Yes, many loved before us, I know that we are not new In city and in forest, they smiled like me and you But now it's come to distances and both of us must try Your eyes are soft with sorrow Hey, that's no way to say goodbye I'm not looking for another as I wander in my time Walk me to the corner, our steps will always rhyme You know my love goes with you as your...

Republican lobbyist Jack Burkman is offering $100,000 for information into the unsolved killing of Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich. The 27-year-old was gunned down while walking home from a Washington, D.C., bar in the early hours of July 10. Right-wing conspiracy theorists later suggested DNC officials were behind it and that Rich played a role in leaking party emails.

The survey, which interviewed 1,700 adult (18 and up) Californians, was conducted from May 4 to May 16. Looking to November, there’s tepid support for the two likely nominees. Clinton leads Trump, 45 percent to 33 percent, with Libertarian Gary Johnson polling at 4 percent and 8 percent considering a write-in candidate;

Four days a week, Zippel drives across Utah’s sometimes treacherous terrain, visiting 100 Jewish adolescents. They are 10-18 year olds, each facing their own struggle: drug abuse, violent behaviors or eating disorders. In 1996, a young rabbi walked onto the grounds of Youthcare, a residential treatment center for troubled teens in Provo, Utah on a mission. He was looking for a certain Akiva Greenfield*, a gangly Israeli teenager. When he finally found him, the smiling rabbi introduced himself. Rabbi Benny Zippel from Chabad wanted him to know that he had a friend in Utah. “If there is anything I can...

Passion's newest release has brought widespread excitement and noteworthy sales as Passion: Even So Come debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's Christian Albums Chart and No. 11 on Billboard's Top Albums Chart, along with landing in the top 20 on two additional Billboard Charts.

Thousands of Israeli Druze and Jews grieve at funeral for policeman slain in terror attack Hundreds of people from Haredi sector respond to calls on social media to accompany Master Sergeant Zidan Saif on final journey: 'We won't be ungrateful, we will show out gratitude to those who sacrificed our lives for us'.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 (JTA) — An official with an educational program for Jewish high school students has resigned after allegedly searching the Internet for liaisons with underage boys and sending naked pictures of himself. Rabbi David Kaye resigned from Panim on Monday, informing leaders that he was to be featured on “Dateline NBC” on Friday for seeking a sexual encounter with an underage boy in a chat room. “He told me he was going to be on a program on national television that would identify him engaging in inappropriate behavior,” said Rabbi Sid Schwarz, founder and president of the Washington-based...

Amidst the suffering and turmoil, there are stories of survival and rejoicing. Now, one young family who left Reno for New Orleans just a few months ago, is back safe and sound. Mark Markiewicz, his wife April and eight-year-old son Alex knew the hurricane was coming. They went to the Superdome for shelter, but they said the nightmare that awaited them there was far worse than anything they may have faced from Hurricane Katrina. It was an anxious group of family members gathered at the Reno airport to welcome the Markiewicz' back from New Orleans. April's grandmother, Helen DeSouza, said...

SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (AP) An Indiana man with a troubled past went on a two-day crime spree that left three people dead and five hospitalized before he killed himself inside a Wal-Mart store, police said. Authorities are still trying to determine what set off 38-year-old Toby Whelchel but connections between at least one of the victims and Whelchel began to emerge Wednesday as family members tried to make sense of their loss. Attorney Steve Mazin, 52, was granted a restraining order against Whelchel three years ago after telling a judge the former Air Force captain was dating his estranged wife...