Monthly Archives: April 2018
Syria’s Growing Chemical Weapons Entanglement
The chemical weapons (CW) possessed and employed by Syria since it undertook to completely get rid of them have become an increasingly tangled web over the past year. This has many ramifications, particularly in...
Jewish groups praise Iceland committee’s proposal against banning circumcision
Iceland’s Judicial Affairs and Education Committee recommended last week that the country’s parliament dismiss a proposed ban on male circumcision, effectively putting an end to a three-month national debate over the legislation.
The committee issued...
Syrian poet: ‘We need a revolution within Islam’
Syrian poet Ali Ahmad Said Esber, who is widely known by his nom de plume Adonis, was interviewed on April 15 by France 24 TV, and noted that religion should be a private experience...
Leaf makes history as first Israeli in NBA playoffs
Israeli-American T.J. Leaf became the first Israeli to play in the NBA playoffs on Sunday, when the Indiana Pacers put him on the court for the last three minutes of play in a winning...
Trump considers possibility of allowing Pollard to visit Israel for embassy opening
U.S. President Donald Trump is weighing the possibility of changing the parole conditions of convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard to allow him to come to Israel, according to Israeli officials at The Jerusalem Post Conference in...
Massive explosions on Syrian military bases registered as seismic activity
A massive anonymous attack on Syrian military installations overnight on Sunday rocked the country so severely that the explosions registered on seismic charts.
Local Syrian media and opposition listed 38 regime soldiers loyal to Syrian...
‘Mickey’ Marcus (1901–1948)
Born to Jewish immigrants from Romania in 1901, David Daniel “Mickey” Marcus grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. He studied at West Point, served as an assistant U.S. attorney and led...
Romanian president denounces ‘secret deals with the Jews’ to move its embassy to Jerusalem
Romania’s President Klaus Iohannis has suggested that the leader of the governing party in the country, Livius Dragnea, may have made “secret deals with the Jews” over a move of the country’s embassy from...
Germany’s new antisemitism commissioner wants central register of hate crimes against Jews
Germany’s new Commissioner on fighting antisemitism and on Jewish life, Felix Klein, has said that he wants to have all hate crimes against Jews in Germany registered in one central office.
“That is one of...
Iran’s TV censors draw ridicule, protests
Censorship is nothing new for the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), but particularly awkward editing has recently brought the state broadcaster international ridicule.
The censoring of sports events and movies is common on Iranian television. Iranian viewers have grown accustomed...