Daily Archives: June 12, 2017
Tens of thousands of ultra-orthodox jews in New York protest IDF draft law
Close to 20,000 Orthodox demonstrators gathered at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn on Sunday to protest against the Israeli law that mandates Orthodox conscription into the IDF, describing it as “Israel’s persecution of religious...
PM Netanyahu calls for dismantling of UNRWA
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu called on Sunday for the dismantling of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), accusing it of anti-Israel incitement and saying he had conveyed his message to the U.S....
Rio de Janeiro city square named after Shimon Peres
Copacabana Sqaure in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil was renamed in honor of the late Israeli President Shimon Peres last Friday during a ceremony in the seaside city.
The ceremony was attended by Rio de Janeiro...
Iran kills mastermind behind Tehran attacks, arrests more
Iran said its security forces on Saturday killed the mastermind of a twin attack on Tehran that left 17 people dead this week, as security was tightened around the country to prevent other possible...
Israel’s defense minister proclaims peace closer than ever
Israel Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman said Israel is “far closer” to an agreement with the Palestinians than it has ever been before.
In an interview with Israel’s Channel 2 TV station Thursday, Liberman expressed confidence that...
Aged 100, Kirk Douglas reveals all the infidelities
“If I live to be 100, there will still be so many things unsaid,” Kirk Douglas wrote to his wife, Anne, in 1958, four years after their marriage in Las Vegas.
After marking his 100th...
Shalom Bollywood: The role of the jewish in Hindi cinema
Danny Ben-Moshe, an Australian documentary filmmaker, has been making a movie for the last 11 years. Titled Shalom Bollywood: The Untold Story of Indian Cinema, the documentary tells the stories of Jewish people in...
No shirt, no jews, no service: Jordan restaurants refusing to serve israelis
According to Israeli network Channel 2, Jordanians have been refusing service to Jewish customers as part of a general antipathy towards Israelis. One such traveler posted on Facebook that she and a friend were forced from an Aqaba restaurant after the owner...
The Farhoud remembered
On the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, June 1-2, 1941 (5701 on the Hebrew calendar), the Muslim residents of Baghdad carried out a savage pogrom against their Jewish compatriots. In this pogrom, known by its...
All the colors of Jewish education
Sometimes the world seems as if it’s divided into so many little never-intersecting bubbles that it’s coming out of a gigantic plastic wand a crazed giant is waving in the air.
We see the dangers...