A reality show had a female Arab actor play a customer going in to a gas station/convenience store to purchase a coffee. The man behind the counter, also an actor, tells her, in front of several average Israelis, who are not actors, that he will not serve Arabs. To see what happens, go to http://weareforisrael.org/2011/04/12/a-look-at-anti-arab-racism-in-israel/ Read more

THE Archbishop of the province of Jos, Dr Benjamin Kwashi, said that “solidarity” with Christians in Nigeria, who have been subjected to violence in recent years, “is missing” from the wider Anglican Commun­ion. http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=14254 Read more

R. Schlomo Riskin At each juncture – when I went to Yeshiva University High School of Brooklyn, and then when I went to Yeshiva University – my mother would say, “We’re letting you follow the course of your own mind, and that’s fine. But remember, you promised you’re not going to become a rabbi.” I don’t know if I actually promised that, but I certainly gave her to understand that I wouldn’t become a rabbi, and I really didn’t plan... Read more

Rich Lowry These trends mean, just as it is suffering economically, the working class is getting cut off from the richest sources of social capital: marriage, two-parent families, and church-going. More people are falling into a lower class characterized by men who can’t make a minimal living and single women with children. Murray argues that America can maintain its national power even if these trends continue. With a growing lower class “increasingly unsuited for citizenry in a free society,” though,... Read more

Micghael Medved Commentary This points up one of the problems with recent efforts to bring the ancient Haggadah up to date: the grim tone that often creeps into these volumes and brings a distinctly sour note to a holiday generally perceived as joyous and (with the help of four required cups of wine) almost euphoric. http://www.jidaily.com/KmW/e Read more

But in one case above all, namely Syria, debates over intervention have missed one overwhelming argument, which is the likely religious catastrophe that would follow the overthrow of the admittedly dictatorial government. http://www.realclearreligion.org/articles/2011/04/11/death_warrant_of_ancient_christianity_106234.html Read more

Chris Mitchell CBN News Middle East Bureau Chief Monday, April 04, 2011 JERUSALEM, Israel — Islamic militants recently bombed a bus station in Jerusalem in the first major terror attack in seven years. The March 23 explosion wounded dozens of Israelis and also took the life of Mary Gardner, a Scottish Christian who had arrived in the Holy Land just a few weeks before. Gardner, 59, had enrolled in a six-month program run by Hebrew University’s Rothberg International School along... Read more

Uwe Siemon-Netto In the late 1970s, Princeton historian Bernard Lewis came across Ayatollah Khomeini’s short book, “Islamic Government,” which later became known as the Islamic cleric’s “Mein Kampf.” It detailed what Khomeini planned to do with his country once he came to power. “I tried to bring this to the attention of people here. The New York Times wouldn’t touch it,” Lewis told the The Wall Street Journal. Underestimating long-term strategies of sinister leaders seems endemic in the Western media.... Read more

Israeli actor and political activist Juliano Mer-Khamis, 52, was shot dead on Monday outside a theater which he founded in a refugee camp in the West Bank city of Jenin. http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/israeli-actor-juliano-mer-khamis-shot-dead-in-jenin-1.354044 Read more

It is not hard to imagine what would have happened had Juliano Mer-Khamis been murdered by Jews. The murder would receive a huge headline in Haaretz. Under the headline, five furious analyses would appear – one of them mine. http://www.jidaily.com/VgYOQ/e Read more