Issue 2021

THINK-ISRAEL features essays and commentaries that provide context for current events in Israel. The war Islam is waging against Israel and the West is top priority. We report on global anti-Semitism, Islamism and creeping Sharia. We aim to make sense of what’s going on.  

 

 

GENERAL INTRODUCTION

GENERAL INTRODUCTION This issue has sections on Biblical Archeology and History. In addition, we focus on an entity that actively works again Israel and misinterprets anything Israel does to make it sound evil. As jobs in the media dry up, the television and...

THE GIFT OF TEARS; AARON OF THE DRY BONES

THE GIFT OF TEARS; AARON OF THE DRY BONES October 25, 2021. We start this section with a video. A video that starts quietly with Rabbi Yisroel Meir Lau describing what happened when the first Americans to enter Buchenwald encountered a small boy there. Lau continues...

SHABBAT CHAYEI SARAH AND JEWISH MEMORY

SHABBAT CHAYEI SARAH AND JEWISH MEMORY

by Jerold S. Auerbach, October 25, 2021 As Jerold Auerbach writes, "Long before Jerusalem was mentioned in the biblical text, Hebron was embedded as a site of pilgrimage for sacred memory. According to the biblical narrative (Genesis 23), Jewish history in the Land of...

GENERAL INTRODUCTION

GENERAL INTRODUCTION This issue has sections on Biblical Archeology and History. In addition, we focus on an entity that actively works again Israel and misinterprets anything Israel does to make it sound evil. As jobs in the media dry up, the television and...

THE GIFT OF TEARS; AARON OF THE DRY BONES

THE GIFT OF TEARS; AARON OF THE DRY BONES October 25, 2021. We start this section with a video. A video that starts quietly with Rabbi Yisroel Meir Lau describing what happened when the first Americans to enter Buchenwald encountered a small boy there. Lau continues...

SHABBAT CHAYEI SARAH AND JEWISH MEMORY

SHABBAT CHAYEI SARAH AND JEWISH MEMORY

by Jerold S. Auerbach, October 25, 2021 As Jerold Auerbach writes, "Long before Jerusalem was mentioned in the biblical text, Hebron was embedded as a site of pilgrimage for sacred memory. According to the biblical narrative (Genesis 23), Jewish history in the Land of...

GENERAL INTRODUCTION

GENERAL INTRODUCTION This issue has sections on Biblical Archeology and History. In addition, we focus on an entity that actively works again Israel and misinterprets anything Israel does to make it sound evil. As jobs in the media dry up, the television and...

HOW THE MEDIA LIES WHILE BEING FACTUAL, SORT OF

Bernice Lipkin discusses oft-used propaganda techniques Some of the text is based on work by Dr. Steve Turley and by J. Peder Zane, who have written on how the media distort basic facts in both their text and in the headlines. AUTHOR: Bernice Lipkin is managing editor...

FACEBOOK FINALLY ADMITS IT: ITS FACT CHECKS ARE JUST OPINION

 by Robert Spencer, December 15, 2021 This and the next article are about organizations other than news media that also indulge in propaganda by text and by photo. For years now, Facebook and the other social media giants have been acting as the guardians of...

THE DECLINE AND FALL OF JOURNALISTIC INTEGRITY

by Matthew Hausman, December 1, 2021 Mathew Hausman describes how mainstream reporters vent propaganda rather than communicating facts. They "manipulate news to fit their politics, disparage opponents, and belittle those who dare to expose their biases." The US...

FORMER MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD MONEYMAN TELLS ALL

 By Pesach Benson, November 7, 2021 This is an important article in that it shows how terror groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood have 'charities' and 'do good works' to which they can point, while using the bulk of their money to support terrorists. As Abdurrahman...

J STREET AND NEW YORK TIMES REVISE THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

by Stephen M. Flatow, November 2, 2021. J Street is an anti-Jewish, anti-Israel group that insists it is a Jewish organization; the New York Times (NYT) is a distributor of anti-Israel propaganda. I'm not sure that they still insist they print only news that's fit to...

SECRETS OF THE CAVE OF THE PATRIARCHS EXPOSED

by Nadav Shragai, November 2, 2021 The Cave of the Patriarchs -- the Machpelah -- is a series of caves in Hebron and is said to be the second holiest site in Judaism after the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. It is where the Patriarchs and Matriarchs are buried; i.e.,...

THE NY TIMES SELLS COMICAL ACCOUNT OF WHAT IT MEANS TO BE ISRAELI

by Gilead Ini, October 27, 2021 Gilead Ini writes of a New York Time (NYT) reporter who queried Israelis on how happy they were living in Israel. Almost all of them were unhappy. Given that Israel is ranked in the top 10% on the World Happiness Report, the Times being...

THE GIFT OF TEARS; AARON OF THE DRY BONES

THE GIFT OF TEARS; AARON OF THE DRY BONES October 25, 2021. We start this section with a video. A video that starts quietly with Rabbi Yisroel Meir Lau describing what happened when the first Americans to enter Buchenwald encountered a small boy there. Lau continues...

SHABBAT CHAYEI SARAH AND JEWISH MEMORY

by Jerold S. Auerbach, October 25, 2021 As Jerold Auerbach writes, "Long before Jerusalem was mentioned in the biblical text, Hebron was embedded as a site of pilgrimage for sacred memory. According to the biblical narrative (Genesis 23), Jewish history in the Land of...

GENERAL INTRODUCTION

 
This issue has sections on Biblical Archeology and History. In addition, we focus on an entity that actively works again Israel and misinterprets anything Israel does to make it sound evil. As jobs in the media dry up, the television and particularly newspapers are much more controlled by fewer people, who from their activities are clearly anti-Jewish. The New York Times has gone from covered dislike of Judaism to open animosity, misinterpreting and/or inventing incidents as needed. The Muslim Brotherhood is perhaps the most successful terrorist group acting to destroy Israel and the Western countries. It begets multiple groups engaged in terrorism. On one end of the spectrum, some groups have a virtuous face, apparently seeking only to make the ‘real Islam’ understood by their neighbors. On the other end, some are openly terrorist towards Israel and the West. We can only present a few cases. The media doesn’t give Islam, particularly stealth jihad, the publicity its activities warrant. We suggest you subscribe to Jihad Watcj and receive a more realistic account of jihadi activities. Subscribe to www.JihadWatch.org, managed by Robert Spencer.

GENERAL INTRODUCTION

GENERAL INTRODUCTION This issue has sections on Biblical Archeology and History. In addition, we focus on an entity that actively works again Israel and misinterprets anything Israel does to make it sound evil. As jobs in the media dry up, the television and...

THE GIFT OF TEARS; AARON OF THE DRY BONES

THE GIFT OF TEARS; AARON OF THE DRY BONES October 25, 2021. We start this section with a video. A video that starts quietly with Rabbi Yisroel Meir Lau describing what happened when the first Americans to enter Buchenwald encountered a small boy there. Lau continues...

SHABBAT CHAYEI SARAH AND JEWISH MEMORY

SHABBAT CHAYEI SARAH AND JEWISH MEMORY

by Jerold S. Auerbach, October 25, 2021 As Jerold Auerbach writes, "Long before Jerusalem was mentioned in the biblical text, Hebron was embedded as a site of pilgrimage for sacred memory. According to the biblical narrative (Genesis 23), Jewish history in the Land of...

General Introduction to BIBLICAL ARCHEOLOGY

The Democratic Party’s far-left socialists have long accepted the Arab assertion that Jews have little long-term association with the Land of Israel. This was strongly reinforced, first, by the belief that the five books of Moses had little basis in fact and second, that the modern world has science and thus has little need of God as explanation for all that is still not understood. Curiously, as the socialists increasingly assert these arguments more vocally in more places in our educational system, there are opposite trends being heard more often. First, Israel archaeology is finding more and more evidence for the relevance and historicity of the Bible. And more scientists are asserting both that science and religion are not necessarily contradictory As an example, it is now possible to assert that intelligent design and evolution by small incremental and possibly random steps both had roles to play. There is also recognition of the mathematician Kurt Godel’s dictum that any system of logic, e.g., math or science in general, doesn’t operate outside its sphere, therefore it has nothing to say about religion. Belief in religion or non-belief are both outside its ken. See for example the video featuring the mathematician Stephen Meyer on religion at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_8PPO-cAlA/. See also https://www.perrymarshall.com/articles/religion/godels-incompleteness-theorem/ and https://evo2.org/read-prove-god-exists/.