Rahm Emanuel visits Israel to celebrate son's bar mitzvah

I think he's fluent. Now he just has to say something that we want to hear.

israel leaders will kow tow not the way they were kicked and towed.

this man is an opportunist driven by career without the meditative mind innate compassionate wisdom to help furthur the safety of Israel and the world's children. He represents everything wrong with the liberal american Jews who have never lived through difficulty or genocide and in their comfortable life have no experience with the forces at play. He is being used by Obama and the left to make decisions that bring instability to the world and place Aemrica, israel and the west in danger. I am very ashamed of him corrupt and without moral fiber being in the white House along with anti semitic Jones, Brennan. He and Axelrod should be ashamed of themselves and if the Jews find themselves in peril again it will be because of low low souls like him. An Israeli basher loves him because he is a self hating Jew. I hope the day comes that his son sees what a bad man his father is and undos the damage this terrible soul along with Obama is doing to the future children whic includes his own

BUT IT'S CLEAR FOR ALL OF US YEHUDIM IN ISRAEL AND AROUND THE WORLD, THAT YOU MUST DO MUCH MORE FOR ERETZ ISRAEL, FOR MEDINAT ISRAEL AND FOR AM ISRAEL!!! BE HEALTHY AND BE BLESSED. MAZAL TOV.

Hi Rahm.! Try not to discolour the White House .

his visit is NOT a private visit. it is political. unless the officials that he is meeting with are actually members of his family.

we want to watch it on the Kotel cam on www.aish.com

Another Israeli news site is reporting that Emmanuel held a pre- bar mitzvah banquet at a non-kosher restaurant in Eilat, then handed the bill to an official of the Ministry of Tourism in attendance. If true, it's hardly surprising. It is, after all, "the Chicago way". But (again, if true why should the M of T be paying the bill for a private gathering?

For Emmanuel and for Obama admistration Western Wall must be a part of the "occupied" East Jerusalem, which they [along with Palestinians] want Israel to give in. I wonder if Emmanuel would dare to visit it? I also wonder who Emmanuel means on Passover Seder [assuming he had one] when he says "Next year in Jerusalem"- probably Palestinians?

I thought that he will be denied entry and celebrate his son's barmitzva at the White House West wall.

His son is now old enough to understand the devastation his father is trying to bring down on Israel. I hope that the son studies Mordechai's advice to Queen Esther that perhaps this was the very reason she was put into this position. Perhaps the son can have influence on Rahm when logic cannot. Because the lives of countless Jews may well depend on the son's intervention.

Rahm's son is not a White House official, and Rahm does not dictate American foreign policy. Their private visit should remain private.

Curious to know if Rahm speaks Hebrew with Bibi, Ehud and Peres when no one else is around?

A family is coming to Israel to celebrate their son becoming a bar mitzvah. Mazal Tov there should celebration of that fact and leave the political banter for another day. Mazal Tov and welcome to Israel

...the justification for Israel's existence and its right to do so IS NOT the Jewish Holocaust? Wouldn't it be appropriate for him to tell the two that historically, the Land of Israel and Jerusalem - or Zion if you will - at its center has been the cradle of the Jewish people and its civilization from time immemorial and that Jews have never fully left it and have kept their affinity to it all of these years; that ethically Israel's renewed sovereignty in the Land is based on the universally accepted right of all peoples, including that of the Jewish people, to national self-determination and independence; and finally that Israel's right to be, to exist as the nation-state of the Jewish people is based legally on an amalgamation of the Balfour Declaration, 1917, San Remo Conference, 1920, League of Nations decision, 1922, and United Nations resolution, 1947, all of which are part of the overused term "international law"...?? Have a pleasant stay in our people's country, and please avoid attempting to humiliate people, will you...??

Better than being accused of cowtowing to Israel !!. I know that Rahm Emmanuel only wants what is eventually a better life for Israelis.

In Chicago, he is called: Rahm the Kapo he is no friend of Israel

So you let the "self-hating Jew" into your country. Bad security I guess.

The Western Wall is NOT "a remnant of the Biblical Temple." The biblical temple was destroyed in 586 BCE and replaced with a much more modest structure in the early to mid-5th century BCE. Four centuries after the end of the "biblical period," in the late first century BCE, King Herod of Judea began a massive expansion and reconstruction project that transformed the Second Temple it into a much more grandiose edifice. In order to do this he had to expand the surface of the Temple Mount and build a retaining wall to support the extension of the surface. This retaining wall was, for centuries, called the "Wailing Wall: and is now known as the Western Wall. It was not part of Solomon's Temple or the original Second Temple, the only Jewish temples that could be said to be "biblical." During the Middle Ages, Jewish pilgrims and travelers actually prayed at the Gate of Mercy, not the Wailing Wall. It only became Jerusalem's main sacred site for Jews a few hundred years ago.

With friends like Emanuel Rahman we don't need enemies.

Please, for the sake of humanity, keep him and his son there forever.

Mazel Tov and Blessings to you, your wife and most especially your son. Blessings, Yehoshua Ya'acov

I wish Mr Emmanuel and his son a pleasant trip. Mazal tov.