Bet You Didn’t Know About the Jews of Sefwi Wiawso, Ghana
The House of Israel has a one-room synagogue and a miniature Torah that sits in a special wooden box. All work stops on Shabbat, the boys are circumcised a week after birth, and the...
Remembering David Stoliar, the Only Survivor of 1942 Struma Disaster
Last Saturday, the New York Times ran an obituary about David Stoliar, the only survivor aboard the Struma, a ship carrying an estimated 800 Romanian, Bulgarian, and Russian Jews, all fleeing the Holocaust. The ship,...
Shift in tone: Liberals warn Israel against settlements, Palestinians against unilateral statehood bids
The Liberal government on Sunday put out its first statement on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which included calling Israel a “steadfast friend and ally” while also warning it against building more settlements on disputed land.
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“Rabin, the Last Day”. A documentary.
Rabin, The Last Day, Amos Gitai’s sprawling, scarific two-and-a-half-hour quasi-documentary on the November 1995 assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin by a young religious fanatic, Yigal Amir, after the signing of the Oslo Accords,...
Israel’s Top General Praises Iran Deal as ‘Strategic Turning Point’ in Slap at Bibi
Remember the nuclear agreement between Iran and the West? You know — the one that Benjamin Netanyahu insisted was the biggest danger to Israel and the Jews since time immemorial?
Well, Israel’s military chief of...
Serenading A Fetus In The Womb
In their attempts to gain greater and greater control over the way in which children grow and develop, people are developing strategies for influencing children at earlier and earlier ages. For quite some...
The Economist: ‘Israelis Seem Especially Susceptible to Hysteria’
A 2012 Economist article claimed that Israelis and their Prime Minister fear Iran because they suffer from "Auschwitz complex" - a “ghetto mentality” evidently based on obsessing over past suffering and reinforced by the Jewish festivals of Purim and...
Historic New York Shul Considers, Then Rejects, ‘SynaCondo’ Plan
Astoried New York Orthodox synagogue, just blocks from the Empire State Building, is looking to its future, but says a report that it may build a gleaming 19-story ‘SynaCondo’ is wrong.
The West Side Jewish...
Putin to European Jews: Come to Mother Russia!
On Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin invited Jews facing anti-Semitism in Europe to return to Russia.
The comments, reported by the RBC, a Russian media outlet, took place during a meeting in Moscow with a delegation...
EU passes controversial anti-Israel resolution
The European Union (EU) passed on Monday evening a resolution stipulating that all agreements between Israel and the EU not apply to any areas over the 1949 Armistice borders.
In the convoluted wording of the...