Daily Archives: June 8, 2018
Lori Polin wins Jewish leadership award
San Diego Jewish community leader, Lori Polin, will be awarded the 2018 Kipnis-Wilson/Friedland Award for her extraordinary involvement and leadership in our local community.
The prestigious, internationally recognized Kipnis-Wilson/Friedland Award is given to Lions of...
Palestinians launch kite with explosive along Gaza border amid latest clashes
More than 10,000 Palestinian rioters have gathered along five locations along the Israeli-Gaza border on Friday in the latest round of clashes.
The Israel Defense Forces said rioters were burning tires and throwing grenades, pipe...
Pro-Israel group explore legal action after Valencia declares itself ‘free of Israeli apartheid’
ACOM, a pro-Israel Spanish group, is exploring legal action against the city council of Valencia, Spain’s third-largest city, after it passed a pro-BDS resolution.
The city council of Valencia approved a motion last week to...
Kenneth Marcus approved by Senate for civil-rights job, despite Democrat opposition
Jewish civil-rights advocate Kenneth Marcus was narrowly approved by the Senate as the next Assistant U.S. Secretary of Education for Civil Rights.
Marcus, who founded the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law,...
Rabbis urge citizens to protest destruction of Netiv Ha’avot neighborhood
A cadre of rabbis called on the public to protest the destruction of the Netiv Ha’avot neighborhood in Gush Etzion next week, after attempts to nullify the Supreme Court-ordered razing failed.
In December 2016, the...
In Jerusalem, happy ‘horde’ indulges in ‘meta-reflection’ of reality
As part of the annual Israel Festival in Jerusalem, I boarded the light rail with my fellow performers, each donning a white headset. Our choreographer was a pre-programmed Siri-like female voice named “Rachel” telling...
Hamas in Gaza fails to ignite similar violence in the West Bank
One of the major objectives of Hamas is to spread violence and instability from its own turf in the Gaza Strip across the State of Israel to the West Bank—a goal that Hamas leaders...
For Singapore Meeting, Preparation, Not Attitude (Or Size) Matters
As with much of Donald Trump’s defense policy planning, the president’s current nuclear strategy seems to be advancing ad hoc, as a more-or-less impromptu response to certain perceived changes in North Korean threat levels. Looking ahead to...
An IDF soldier’s description of experience in Gaza
A place with so much meaning.
Words cannot describe the situations my comrades and I have been through.
The first time we got to the border we couldn’t imagine how the next 4 months would be...
Book describes education in utropia
It is many years since I read material on the theory of education, and this book on the subject came into my hands through the kindness of our new neighbor, who also happens to...