Daily Archives: July 11, 2018
Is France reemerging as an aspiring superpower?
On Monday, July 9, the French Minister of Armed Forces Florence Barley met with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to discuss opportunities for defense and security cooperation, including upgrading the intelligence sharing agreement...
Madness, Irrationality, and the Logic of Deterrence
Do you know what it means to find yourselves face to face with a madman? Madmen, lucky folk, construct without logic, or rather with a logic that flies like a feather. (Luigi Pirandello, Henry IV)
In...
Jewish Community Center screening makes sure we never forget
In a study released in April 2018, more than one-fifth of millennials surveyed said they haven’t heard of the Holocaust or aren’t sure if they’ve heard of it. A full two-thirds couldn’t identify what...
When a Bavarian Monastery Provided a Home to Jewish Refugees
ohn Glass bowed his head as the cantor’s melody echoed through the cemetery in prayer for the children buried beneath the grassy-green surface.
Church bells sounded in the distance, a reminder of the unlikely setting...
Soviet Jew Movement Exhibit Comes To Mandell JCC in Hartford CT.
The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford has brought a traveling exhibit about the movement to free the Soviet Jews in the 1960s to the Mandell JCC's Chase Family Gallery.
The exhibit, "Power of Protest: The Movement...
Rethinking the notion of incentivized Arab emigration
For more than a quarter-century, I have promoted the idea of incentivized emigration of the Arab residents of Judea-Samaria as the only “non-kinetic” policy prescription that can ensure the long-term survival of Israel as the...
Israel and China start conversation about mutual business and development ties
Is there more to the Israel-Chinese relationship than technology?
Roi Feder thinks so. He serves as Israel’s managing director of APCO Worldwide, a global consultancy group, and has helped numerous Israeli industries navigate their way...
Germany to pay additional $88 million to Holocaust survivors
Germany has agreed to pay another $88 million to fund social-welfare services for Holocaust survivors, according to the New York-based Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany on Tuesday.
The country, which perpetrated mass murder...
Parashat Masei מַסְעֵי
The name of our Parasha, Masei (“מַסְעֵי”) referring to travels and journeys, but it also spells the word “Yeamas” (“יעמס”) which in Hebrew means “heavy”, alluding to the hardship Bnei-Yisrael endured in the desert...
IDF Patriot missile intercepts drone from Syria
The Israel Defense Forces shot down a drone on Wednesday that infiltrated Israeli airspace from Syria.
“The UAV infiltrated the Israeli border from Syria. The Patriot aerial defense system identified the threat and tracked it...