Peace in this world

Rabbi Eli Mansour has an excellent Torah thought on this week's parsha which may inspire us to be honest in our financial delaings. Click here to read Parashat Yitro: Peace in This World and the Next.


EOZ quotes from an article at the Algemeiner.
UNESCO, the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, has pulled a Jewish exhibit two years in the making, entitled “People, Book, Land – The 3,500 Year Relationship of the Jewish People and the Land of Israel,” after a zero hour protest from the Arab League, The Algemeiner has learned.
...UNESCO informed the SWC of the change on January 14th in a letter to the Center’s Shimon Samuels, asserting the Arab League’s claim that going ahead with the show “could create potential obstacles related to the peace process in the Middle East.”
...Interestingly, 10 days prior to the suspension of the exhibit, the United States declined co-sponsorship on remarkably similar grounds.


ElderofZiyon opines:
Let this sink in for a moment: The official United States position is that publicly acknowledging that Jews have deep historic ties to Israel is a threat to the "peace process."
...Meanwhile, the UN today launched the "Year of Solidarity with the Palestinian People" - an event that absolutely no one says is a threat to the peace process.
http://elderofziyon.blogspot.be/2014/01/unesco-drops-jewish-themed-exhibit.html#.UtjcG6R3vcc


Richard Behar has written an article at Forbes titled Open Letter To NYU's President: Why The American Studies Assn.'s Israel Boycott Makes Me Ashamed To Be An Alumnus.


Forbes magazine’s Contributing Editor of Investigations, Richard Behar, who this week published a scathing 15,000-word indictment of the American Studies Association’s vote to boycott Israeli universities, said he wrote the in-depth piece – it took a marathon week of reporting – after reading about the boycott in The Algemeiner’s daily email.



Writing as an investigative journalist for Forbes, a business magazine, whose editors, he said, welcomed his coverage of Israel, Behar said that it was the general media’s negative portrayal of the Jewish State that inspired him to dedicate more time to the subject.

Read more: http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/01/16/forbes-investigative-star-explains-why-his-sights-are-set-on-israel-interview/


A reader posted a comment at the Algemeiner.


Combating Jew hatred is a Sisyphean task. Your Forbes articles have been right on the mark, thanks to Forbes for publishing them. Keep up the good fight,