Daily Archives: May 23, 2018
Lift the veil and behold ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’
SAN DIEGO — “A woman must endure.” The Old Globe tears the veil open in a play by Ursula Rani Sarma based on the book by Khaled Hosseini, and what we see is heartbreaking.
Afghanistan. We hear...
Battle for succession in PA moves into high gear
In the best tradition of dictatorial Arab regimes, obscurity has descended upon the state of health of Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas, who has been hospitalized in Ramallah.
The Palestinian people, whom Abbas officially represents...
Essential Calculations of Rationality and Irrationality in US Nuclear Deterrence
"The rational is not thinkable without its other, the non-rational, and it never appears in reality without it. The only question is, in what form the other appears, how it remains in spite of...
Palestinian adviser: ‘US envoy to Israel is a settler and a terrorist’
The Palestinian Authority was outraged Wednesday by a photo of U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman holding an image of Jerusalem altered to remove the iconic Dome of the Rock and insert an as-yet-nonexistent Third...
White House lauds Paraguay embassy move to Jerusalem
The White House issued a statement on Tuesday night, praising Paraguay for relocating its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Paraguayan President Horacio Cartes and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were in attendance...
IDF destroys terror tunnel, attacks targets in Gaza in response to security breach
The Israel Defense Forces attacked multiple targets in Gaza and destroyed a Hamas terror tunnel early on Wednesday. The strikes followed an incident on Tuesday morning, in which Palestinians breached the Israel-Gaza border near...
Israeli book exposes paltry conversion rate in 30 years
New figures in Conversion in Israel: Vision, Achievements and Challenges, published in Hebrew and just released by the Israel Democracy Institute Press, expose how the state conversion system has failed since its launch in 1996.
The...
Fatah honors murderers; tournament named after arch-terrorist Abu Jihad
Arch-terrorist Abu Jihad (Khalil Al-Wazir), who organized terror attacks in which 125 Israelis were murdered, has been made into one of the greatest heroes by the Palestinian Authority. One of the P.A.’s and Fatah’s ways to...
װי עס קריסטלט זיך, אַזוי ייִדלט זיך
אַ קליינער טראָפּן שפּיגלט אָפּ, זאָגט מען, דעם גאַנצן ים.. און עס איז שוין פֿון לאַנג אויך באַװוּסט, אַז מדינת ישראל איז אַמעריקע אין מיניאַטור און שפּיגלט זי אָפּ אַזוי װי דער קליינער טראָפּן...
Philip Roth, renowned American Jewish novelist, dies at 85
Philip Roth, influential Jewish writer, Pulitzer Prize winner who wrote about male lust, Jewish life and the United States, died on Tuesday night in New York, at a Manhattan hospital from congestive heart failure on...