Daily Archives: May 17, 2018

When confronted with absolute evil or the depths of human depravity, some of us experience a very particular kind of depression. It’s as if we just can’t cope with such a repudiation of humanity. Some...

The most concerning development in the current crisis between Israel and Turkey is the joint statement condemning Israel from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling Islamist party and the opposition Republican People’s Party. At the...

1. The Shavou’ot holiday commemorates the receipt of the Torah (the Five Books of Moses), which enshrines liberty and morality, as demonstrated by a whole night study on the eve of Shavou’ot (the “Enhancement of Shavou’ot” – Tikoon Shavou’ot...

While Facebook is taking steps to rid its platform of racist and inciting content, Russian-language social-media sites are reportedly letting such material run rampant. As such, it is being seen by hundreds of millions of...

The possible nixing of a friendly soccer match between the Israeli national team, led by Tel Ben Haim, and the Argentinian national team, headed by Lionel Messi, has been averted, according to a report...

Just two days after the United States opened its embassy in Jerusalem to much fanfare, Guatemala made its move to open its embassy in the Israeli capital. Guatemala’s President Jimmy Morales said: “With the opening of our...

Randall Lane, editor of Forbes magazine, said it loud and clear: “Bringing the entire world together in one place is something I always wanted to do. Israel has been a global crossroads of culture, religion and...

Two Palestinian Facebook pages and a forum directing rioters in Gaza gave explicit instructions to murder and kidnap Israelis on May 14, the day the U.S. embassy opened in Jerusalem, as well as suggestions...

Numerous Agence France-Presse photo captions generalized all participants in Sunday’s Jerusalem flag parade as “settlers,” despite the fact that the crowd hailed from across Israel, within the Green Line, as well as outside. A...

The book of “Bamidbar” (“במדבר") has ten parashot, that coincide with the Ten Commandments, and Moshe will be teaching Bnei-Yisrael their true and divine details. There are 159 verses (“קנט”) in our Parasha, which...