Sergiu Simmel
Question: Was Abraham a Jew? Answer: Hi! “Was Abraham a Jew” is an interesting question, and one that may be impossible to answer. It comes down to definitions. He wasn’t a party to the covenant made at Mount Sinai, and thus he wasn’t...
Question: Why was it determined by the Rabbis that the 24 books of the Bible only include those books and not more?Why weren’t other holy books, written later in time, included in the Bible ? Answer: The Bible (Tanach) isn’t a collection...
At a Senate Foreign Relations Committee meeting in Washington on Thursday, Committee Chair John Kerry and ranking Republican Richard Lugar (no friend of Israel) slammed both Israel and the ‘Palestinians’ for the ‘lack of progress’...
President Obama’s second cousin is a conservative blogger who bills himself as ‘12% pure hope’ (Hat Tip: Jammie via Twitter). He’s a doctor – I assume the same doctor who has been widely quoted by conservative bloggers regarding...
A new book to be published later this year by Yitzchak Rabin’s English-language speech writer and close friend Yehuda Avner claims that Rabin believed that peace with the ‘Palestinians’ was a ‘long-shot,’ but that he reluctantly...
Earlier this week, I reported on a New York Times story that claimed that two of Hamas terrorist and arms dealer Mahmoud al-Mabhouh’s liquidators had flown to the United States after the liquidation. I raised five questions regarding that report:...
With the IAEA all but ruling out Syria’s claims that Israel used munitions containing depleted uranium to bomb its al-Kibar nuclear reactor in September 2007, and therefore ruling out such depleted uranium as the source of uranium particles found...
Here’s a very disturbing report regarding how long it might take Iran to produce weapons grade uranium once it has reached the 20% level (which it has already reached, although there is not yet evidence of it having done so in large quantities)....
At the beginning of the week, I reported that an updated National Intelligence Estimate on Iran was due out in the next couple of weeks. Now, it seems that estimate is going to be delayed. The reasons behind the latest delay are murky; two of the officials...
