By Nadav Shragai, Haaretz Correspondent
The present-day Sanhedrin Court decided Tuesday to purchase a herd of sheep for ritual sacrifice at the site of the Temple on the eve of Passover, conditions on the Temple Mount permitting.

The modern Sanhedrin was established several years ago and is headed by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz. It claims to be renewing […]

Who knows if it is true or not, but I suppose we need some entertainment news here as well…
Pop superstar Michael Jackson has confirmed his conversion to Islam, according to reports in the Middle East.
The Arab-Israeli newspaper Panorama claims Jackson has announced the move and revealed plans to move to Bahrain, where he has bought […]

The point that Spencer makes here 100% accurate. There is a growing paranoid host of folks here in the US who truly believe that Christains are a worse threat than the Islamists. To these “progressive secularists” Europe is the greatest source of inspiration and making America more like Europe is to be striven […]

Please read the previous post first. But this is certainly an important update:
The press statement by Pakistani Foreign Minister Khursid Kasuri announced the decisions taken by the seven countries’ foreign ministers. Here are the highlights:

– New approaches and ideas to address the situation in Middle East, internal […]

I was living in Eilat, Israel at the time of the Jordan-Israel peace agreement in late 1994. I walked out into the desert and climbed a little mountain and was able to look down at the location in the Aravah near the border crossing and watch the signing event. Even Clinton was there. […]

A few have asked about Preterism here recently. I’ve written an article about it and my feelings on the issue. There is a lot to be said here and my article only touches the fringes of all that could be discussed. As ususal, it is farily unrefined and yet needs a lot […]

The New Turkey: The Quiet Revolution at the Edge of Europe. By Chris Morris.

Modern Turkey consists of only a fraction of its former self. Chris Morris, the author of the book under review, is right to say “Trying to understand contemporary Turkey is impossible if you don’t know something of its historical roots. A […]

By Jonathan V. Last, The Philadelphia Inquirer
When I first met Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, he was a young counterterrorism expert just breaking into print. I had edited some of his work. He seemed like a normal fellow. But as we spoke, he told me a remarkable story.

Gartenstein-Ross grew up in Ashland, Ore., one of the West Coast’s […]

Democracy and Sharia Law do not mix, but Socialists obviously have no qualms with this backward societal structure, as FSM Contributing Editor Adrian Morgan explains in Part two of his three-part series, Europe’s Black-Red Alliance.
By Adrian Morgan
In February 2002 former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher published an article entitled “Islamism is the new Bolshevism.” In […]

Turkish Daily News
Foreign Minister Abdullah Gül conveyed Turkey’s support over the weekend for a new peace initiative, established by seven Muslim states, between Israelis and the Palestinians, apparently assuming the role of convincing Israel to join the project.

Gül, on a trip to Saudi Arabia, was said by diplomatic sources to have […]