The Catmage Chronicles
Andy thought he was going crazy when a talking cat showed up at his front door. He couldn’t have been more wrong.Goldeneyes is a Catmage – a cat with human intelligence and magical abilities. Andy is an eighth grader who is smart, impulsive, and trying to avoid the school bully at all costs. A prophecy threw them together. There’s just one problem: Goldeneyes can’t stand humans.The Catmage world is heading toward war. Goldeneyes and Andy must try to stop the enemy from getting stronger. And they must save a powerful Catmage who’s been kidnapped. For Goldeneyes, it’s personal. That Catmage is her grandmother.Andy and Goldeneyes must try to put aside their differences. If they can’t, the enemy will soon be too powerful to defeat…
Author Archives: Rabbi Kaufman
The Growth of Israel Advocacy in the Reform Movement
The dramatic increase in active advocacy for Israel in the Reform movement was obvious at the URJ’s recent Biennial Convention held in Washington DC. That convention featured a number of speakers whose speeches primarily focused on Israel and a number … Continue reading
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Tagged AIPAC, AIPAC Policy Conference, RAC, Reform Jews, Reform Judaism, URJ, We Are For Israel
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Iowa Caucus Update
This article is cross-posted on the We Are For Israel blog. There are many of you around the country wondering, “Why Iowa?” One of the main reasons is that in Iowa people can actually meet the candidates and interact with … Continue reading
Signs of Wanting Peace
According to a recent New York Times article: The Palestinian decision to apply for full United Nations membership at the Security Council, announced Friday by President Mahmoud Abbas, was the most viable of the only options possible: surrender, return to violence or appeal … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Media
Tagged Israel, Palestinians, Peace Negotiations, peace process, Surrender, UDI, United Nations
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Where Negotiations Begin
I have never wondered why negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians are so difficult. There are many obvious reasons. You can probably name a half-dozen without much thought. Yet, there is one reason that they have gotten more difficult in … Continue reading
They Shout “Justice” but There is No Justice
I have spoken to more people about potential Palestinian action in the United Nations over the past month than I can remember. Some argue for the United States to take the UN to the woodshed and teach it a lesson. … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, United Nations
Tagged Justice, palestinian statehood, UDI
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Casus Belli
PM Erdogan of Turkey said, speaking of Israel’s raid on the Mavi Marmara, in an interview on Al Jazeera last week: The attack that took place in international waters did not comply with any international law. In fact, it was … Continue reading
Israel is Sorry – An Apology to Turkey
Shalom, Salaam, blessings be upon our friends the Turkish people. We in Israel are sorry for what occurred in regard to the episode of the Free Gaza Flotilla. We are sorry that lives were lost because militants on board attacked … Continue reading
Posted in Israel Derangement Syndrome, Middle East, Turkey
Tagged Free Gaza Flotilla, Gaza, Israeli Apology, Mavi Marmara, Turkey
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What is Wrong with 67 Lines with Swaps?
What is wrong with “the 1967 borders and mutually agreed upon swaps?” As a stand alone statement, it is problematic for a number of reasons. First, the pre-1967 lines are actually armistice lines, not borders. This means that they were … Continue reading
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Tagged 1967 lines, 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps, AIPAC, Jerusalem, negotiations, Obama, peace process
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What No One Seems to Be Mentioning
When President Obama spoke last week at the State Department, he said something, different things, that upset virtually every Middle Eastern nation or group. Pissing off the Mullahs does not bother me. Calling out Bahrain while not mentioning Saudi Arabia … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Israel Derangement Syndrome, Israeli Double Standard Time, palestinian politics, United Nations
Tagged Abbas, Israel, Obama, palestinian statehood, Palestinians, UN GA 337, UNGA 337, United Nations, US Veto
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Rabbi Kaufman on Pres. Obama’s Mideast Policy Speech
I have been reading through the various analyses of the President’s speech on Thursday and have found most to miss quite a bit while picking out one or two things either to highlight as wonderful or to criticize as awful. … Continue reading
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Who’s Going Under The Bus?
President Obama is going to lay out his new Middle East policy this week including a new attempt to force a start to Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. We can discuss later a fact which we have discussed many times before, namely the … Continue reading
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Tagged foreign policy, foreign policy speech, Israel, Obama, Palestinians
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Rick Jacob’s Speech to the Religious Action Center
Both the video and the text of Rabbi Rick Jacobs speech to the Religious Action Center’s Consultation on Conscience are available by permission on the We Are For Israel Blog. Rick is the designated successor to Rabbi Eric Yoffie as … Continue reading
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Tagged Israel, J-Street, Rabbi Jacobs, Reform, Reform Judaism, Richard Jacobs, Rick Jacobs, URJ
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Tornadoes and the Jewish Community
There is a lot going on in the Jewish world these days. There is more to talk about concerning Israel and the Middle East than I have time to write about. Tomorrow is Yom HaShoah, a day when we remember martyrs … Continue reading
Posted in Jews, Religion
Tagged Alabama, Birmingham, Jewish, Jonathan Miller, Tornadoes, We Are For Israel
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Non-Violence as a Military Tactic
In Mark Perry’s recent article in Foreign Policy, he wrote: In Cairo, in June of 2009, President Obama linked the Palestinian quest for freedom to the American civil rights movement. “Palestinians must abandon violence,” he said. “Resistance through violence and killing … Continue reading
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Tagged Fence Protests, Israel, Mark Perry, Non-violence, Palestinians, Peace Negotiations
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