http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2016/10/succah-velulav-sung-iraqi-style.html Today is the first day of Succot, the Feast of Tabernacles. Jews recall the Biblical time when the Children of Israel  built makeshift huts in the desert on their journey from Egypt to the […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/10/chag-sameach.htmlAnother week, another holiday! One of these sukkot seems problematic… Wishing all my readers a Chag Kosher v’Sameach. I will not be blogging until Tuesday night or Wednesday. (And then next week we get to […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/10/some-thoughts-about-btselems-speech-at.html I just read the speech by B’Tselem head Hagai El-Ad at the UN Security Council on Friday. Some points:“For the past 49 years – and counting – the injustice known as the occupation of Palestine, […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/10/1016-links-btselems-disgraceful.htmlFrom Ian: The success story of US state legislatures steadily hammering away at BDS However, Clemmons recalls that a real breakthrough came “later on that trip when we had the opportunity to meet Prof. [Eugene] […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/10/frontpage-mag-says-hello-to-san.html David Horowitz’s FrontPage Magazine has a piece entitled, San Francisco State: A Haven for Supporters of Terrorists. Whatever anyone might say about Horowitz he definitely does not pull punches. I always think of the guy […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/10/pa-art-classes-brainwashing-kids-to.htmlThe Fatah Facebook page published a series of cartoons drawn by Palestinian Arab children. Palestinian Media Watch reports that the cartoons are being labeled “innocent drawings” that “express the feelings of children of #Palestine,” In […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/10/does-unesco-resolution-really-nullify.htmlElectronic Intifada and idiot blogger Richard Silverstein both claim that the UNESCO resolution passed last week actually does not deny any Jewish connection to the Temple Mount. They mention (correctly) that the resolution affrims “the importance […]

https://anneinpt.wordpress.com/2016/10/16/sukkot-5777-chag-sameach/The festival of Sukkot, the most joyous festival in the Jewish calendar, begins tonight, lasting for 7 days (8 outside of Israel), running straight into the Simchat Torah festival on the 8th day (9th day […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2016/10/mizrahi-education-could-unite-religious.html Erez Biton hands his report to education minister Naftali Bennett (Flash 90) In  commissioning the Biton Report, was education minister Naftali Bennett making a play for the Mizrahi electorate – slightly less cynical than […]

http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/2016/10/david-singer-trump-thrashes-clinton-on.htmlBy Daphne Anson   Here’s the latest article by Sydney lawyer and international affairs analyst David Singer. He writes: Mainstream American media’s obsession with groping allegations against Donald Trump going back twenty years or more […]