Daily Archives: May 2, 2018

"Where will it end? When will it all be lulled back into sleep, and cease, the bloody hatred, the destruction?" -Aeschylus (Oresteia), presenting the ending of Agamemnon  Currently, the Korean peninsula, Syria and the wider Middle East are...

דאָס לבֿנונישע דאָרף קאַנאַ איז נישט יענער קאַנאַ װוּ יעזוס האָט, לויט דער קריסטלעכער מיטאָלאָגיע מקיים געװען דעם נס פון פאַרװאַנדלען װאַסער אין װײַן. דאָס באַרימטע דאָרף פון דעם קריסטלעכן נײַעם טעסטאַמענט געפינט זיך...

In the past week, Knox College, a small private college in rural Illinois, has been dealing with the anti-Semitic screeds of a visiting assistant professor, Kwame Zulu Shabazz, whose credentials are conspicuously absent a doctorate,...

A seven-time all-star professional football player, Jack Kemp was equally successful in his political career. In the course of that second career, he authored one of history’s most influential pieces of tax legislation, served...

Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas said that the massacres to which European Jews were subjected—from the 11th century until the Holocaust—were not because they were Jews, but because of their function in society. “The anti-Jewish...

The Torah lists three pilgrimage festivals: Passover, Shavuot and Sukkot. Yet the largest annual Jewish pilgrimage these days will take place this week during the lesser known holy day of Lag B’Omer, or the...

Additional details from the Mossad’s audacious operation in the heart of Tehran are continuing to emerge in the wake of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s dramatic speech on Iran’s nuclear program. Hadashot evening news reported on Tuesday...

If general elections were called at this time, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party would win 32 seats, a new poll from Channel 20 conducted after Netanyahu’s press conference on Iran’s nuclear program on...

Israel’s strong economic growth and solid job market came in for praise in the International Monetary Fund’s annual report on the nation’s economy. The 2017 report predicted continued economic growth and a rise in inflation...

The Guatemalan diplomatic mission in Israel and its staff entered their new embassy Tuesday afternoon for the first time, making Guatemala the first foreign country to establish its embassy in Jerusalem. The official dedication of...