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Daily Archives: May 24, 2018

Israeli VR Platform Wins TLV Hackathon For Benefit Of Holocaust Survivors

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Israeli entrepreneuers hosted a hackathon this month for the benefit of Holocaust survivors in Israel and across the world. Twenty-three teams took part in the 36-hour “Spark Hackathon” event on May 10 and 11...

‘Mountain’ bespeaks our love of summits

Mountain is a tribute to the power and fascination mountains have had over us mere mortals since the beginning of time. It is a Screen Australia production, produced and directed by Jennifer Peedom.  The film...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. (Wikimedia Commons)

Behind Erdoğan’s boycott threat against Israel

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is in the midst of one of his periodic bouts of Israel-hatred, lashing out at the Jewish state and its leaders with all the insults (“Nazi,” “apartheid,” “child-killers” and...
New Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Credit: Gage Skidmore via Flickr.

An end to Iran defeatism

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Everyone was eager to hear from the new U.S. secretary of state, but they didn’t care much for what he said. Many international observers hoped that Mike Pompeo’s speech would sound a cautionary note...
Maj.-Gen. (Res.) Eyal Eizenberg, the former commanding officer of the IDF Home Front Command, addressing the “Fire and Maneuverability in a Complex Environment” conference on May 15 in Tel Aviv, where he gave a sobering assessment of Israel's home front readiness for the next conflict with Hezbollah. Credit: Yaakov Lappin.

Israeli home front needs bolstering to fend off Hezbollah’s growing arsenal

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The Israeli home front remains unprepared for the large-scale threat posed by Hezbollah’s mammoth and expanding arsenal of projectiles, a former senior military commander has warned. Maj.-Gen. (Res.) Eyal Eizenberg, the former commanding officer of the...
Rabbi Nikki DeBlosi leads a JLF seminar on ‘Sex, Love, and Romance’ at NYU’s Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life. Credit: Hillel International.

Coffee dates, Shabbat dinners, text study—and answers to the ‘big questions,’ courtesy of Hillel

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Ester Shamailova says her parents, who are from Azerbaijan but now live in Brooklyn, N.Y., are very strict. For that reason—and because of money—her only option after high school was attending a commuter school. She...

WATCH: Turkish political commentator incites against Jews: ‘We are slaves to them’

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Turkish political commentator Hüseyin Güneş said “we are all slaves to the Jews,” who “control us economically.” In a May 17 interview on the Turkish Channel 9/Qanat TV, he said that the Turkish Jews...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and then Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman seen at a meeting of the Likud-Beiteinu faction in the Knesset on March 11, 2014.

Cabinet nixes amendment to allow Israeli premier, defense minister to declare war

Members of the Diplomatic Security Cabinet in Israel agreed on Wednesday to withdraw controversial legislation allowing the prime minister and defense minister to declare war without government approval in “extreme situations.” Such situations, according to the now-shelved...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) meets with Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales in Jerusalem, Nov. 29, 2016, on the 69th anniversary of Guatemala’s key role in the diplomatic events that laid the foundation for the state of Israel’s creation. Credit: Marc Israel Sellem/POOL/Flash90.

Arab League severs ties with Guatemala over embassy move to Jerusalem

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The Arab League lashed out at Guatemala on Wednesday, saying it will no longer engage in relations with the country because of the decision to move its Israel embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. “In...
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Louisiana becomes 25th state to prohibit business ties with anti-Israel BDS groups

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Louisiana Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards issued an executive order on Tuesday prohibiting his state government from doing business with companies that boycott Israel. “The United States, and by affiliation Louisiana, have benefited in innumerable...