BIN’s Top 10 Stories for 5774

As Jews around the world get ready to welcome the Jewish New Year of Rosh Hashana, here is a look back at the top 10 stories for the Jewish year of 5774 on Breaking Israel News.

The Jihadists’ Promise: Power Over Death

Louis Rene Beres

Jihadi violence serves not only to advance the terrorist’s delusion of immortality, but also to add, however perversely, an apparent and desperately needed erotic satisfaction, using religion as the justification.

Islam and the “Killing of Innocents”

Last week, before the Islamic State beheaded its third Westerner, U.S. President Barack Obama announced that, “ISIL is not Islamic. No religion condones the killing of innocents.”