Daily Archives: June 29, 2018
This weekend, join us to resist in the streets at Families Belong Together rallies...
Dear readers:
The news this week has made us sick to our stomachs — massive immigrant detention camps, the Supreme Court’s Muslim Ban and JANUS decisions, Justice Anthony Kennedy retiring from the Supreme Court, and...
Survivor Ruth Hohberg addresses CBI Men in San Diego July 18
Beth Israel’s Men’s Club has scheduled Ruth Hohberg as guest speaker at the July 18 Dinner Forum beginning at 6:30 p.m. Her presentation will cover Getting Here, an Odyssey through WWII recounting some of the memories...
Post-election Turkey: The birth of an Islamist-nationalist alliance
Four decades after they emerged as marginal parties in the 1970s, Turkey’s militant Islamists and ultranationalists won a combined 53.6% of the national vote and 57% of parliamentary seats. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said...
Polish-Jewish relations step back from the brink
Poland has taken the welcome step of removing the most objectionable part of its legislation governing the commemoration of the Nazi and Communist eras. No longer will a historian or journalist or any member...
Hands-on training from the ground up: US first-responders study methodology in Israel
Among the inspiring words delivered by Knesset member Michael Oren to a group of 30 emergency responders from the United States was a shared belief that the two nations are in the battle against...
Why Iran unrest is doomed to fail
Israeli and Western eyes see Iran as synonymous with an Islamic republic that hates Israel, supports terrorism, and is constantly plotting to destroy the Jewish state and overthrow the Sunni regimes in the Middle...
NEWS Focusing on the funding and leadership of IfNotNow
Fifteen alumni of six Ramah summer camps, who are now members of IfNotNow, sat down on March 22 with National Ramah Commission director Rabbi Mitch Cohen.
The alumni wrote in The Forward, “Our meeting on March...
Spanish high court rules anti-Israel boycott by city council is unconstitutional
The High Court of Justice in Spain’s Asturias province ruled that a city council’s policy of boycotting Israel was unconstitutional.
Last year, the City Council of Castrillon in northern Spain passed a motion effectively boycotting...
‘Operation Good Neighbor’ delivers tents, food, clothing to Syrian refugees via IDF
In a special overnight operation, Israel Defense Forces troops delivered approximately 50 tons of humanitarian aid to Syrian refugees, who are fleeing attacks by Syrian President Bashar Assad on the rebel-held city of Daraa.
Supplies...
Parashat Balak בָּלָק
Who was Balak? Balak was one of Yitro’s grandchildren who did not convert with the rest of Yitro’s family who made Teshuvah and joined Bnei-Yisrael. The word “יתרו” Yitro in hebrew while rearranging the...