I've decided that I'm going to try to start posting more regularly again, especially regarding what I'm learning here at yeshiva. But for now, I'll do another classic link dump:

1) World's smallest Torah: the Nano-Torah2) Every now and then I hear the apologists for the Islamo-fascists (who scoff at the term) explain that Islam doesn't contain the ( Read more... )

Odd, when Israeli soldiers fire rubber bullets at stone-wielding thugs, they're condemned. Where's the outrage from the West over this? Where are the world leaders condemning the Palestinian government ( Read more... )

Tomorrow is the 40th anniversary of the commencement of the Six Day War. At the very least, there will be hundreds of columns written about what it means in today's context and pundits will blabber on... at worst, I fear that terrorists will consider it an auspicious time ( Read more... )

Do we understand the nature of our enemy? "Religion of peace"? Garbage! Who would do this to their children? Who would turn their children into murderers? Who would teach their children to glorify hatred and death? Who would sacrifice their children to kill their enemy ( Read more... )

Either later today or tomorrow I'll post about some of the interesting, recent developments at the State House. In the meantime, some of my favorite thinkers (and one new favorite) are asking and attempting to answer some of the most pressing questions of our era:

1) Brooke Goldstein's provocative new film, The Making of a Martyr, explores the ( Read more... )

1) After Sarkozy's historic victory in France, the president-elect said that America can "count on France as a friend" -- bold words, indeed! This prompted Bill O'Reilly to lift his boycott of France. I agree with Bill, though I'm perhaps a bit more *cautiously* optimistic (yet optimistic nonetheless).

(Denis Boyles takes several lessons from ( Read more... )

I received this in an email:

Violently Opposed to Violence

Reuters has a couple of amusing photos from a mass gathering in the Palestinian territories. This one shows a guy brandishing a rifle in his right hand and shaking his left fist. At least one more rifle is visible among the crowd walking behind him. This one shows another guy, holding a ( Read more... )

REPORTS of yet another pack rape in Pakistan emerged over the weekend as plans to amend laws aimed at making it easier to punish rapists stalled in the Islamabad parliament because of opposition from ultra-conservative Islamic parties ( Read more... )

An Iraqi militant group led by al-Qaeda has threatened to massacre Christians in response to remarks about Islam by Pope Benedict XVI that have caused offence across the Muslim world ( Read more... )

I was happy to see MA governor and 2008 presidential candidate Mitt Romney on the Factor with Bill O'Reilly explaining why he won't be providing government money or protection for the former Iranian president that Harvard outrageously invited to speak the day before the fifth anniversary of the September 11th attacks.

Elsewhere Romney said: "The U ( Read more... )