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Daily Archives: July 18, 2018

US Toughens Up on Iran, Yet Keeps Losing

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Despite withdrawing from JCPOA, getting a number of major European companies to withdraw from Iranian markets, causing Iran's former partners in Asia to switch over to Saudi and other oil, and going after a...

The 1st Infant MRI Anywhere in the World is at Shaare Zedek Medical Center

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It's completely new, developed in Israel, and the first infant MRI anywhere on the planet is in the NICU at Shaare Zedek Medical Center Jerusalem / המרכז הרפואי שערי צדק. Senior Neonatologist Dr. Alona Bin-Nun of...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and his Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orban hold a joint press conference at the Parliament building in Budapest, Hungary on July 18, 2017. Credit: Haim Zach/GPO

Welcoming Orbán doesn’t betray Israeli democracy

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For those who like neat political theories with straight lines connecting the people they don’t like, the upcoming visit of Hungarian President Viktor Orbán to Israel provides some potent ammunition. Orbán was elected for a third...
Masked Palestinians demonstrate in front of the headquarters of the Agency for Refugees in Balata refugee camp in protest against the policy of Scott Anderson, director of UNRWA in the West Bank, on Sept. 17, 2017. Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90.

US report finds only 20,000 Palestinian refugees in the world

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Members of the U.S. Congress are demanding the State Department make public a key report that includes precise figures on the number of people who became refugees in the 1948 War of Independence. The existence...

Jordanian MP Huda Etoom: ‘My late mother’s single desire was to blow herself up...

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Jordanian MP Huda Etoom said that her late octogenarian mother had a single unfulfilled desire: “to don an explosives belt and blow herself up among the Zionist Jews.” MP Etoom, who represents Jerash, made the...
File Photo: The yard of a kindergarten struck by a mortar shell fired from Gaza on May 29, 2018. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Balloon carrying firebomb from Gaza strikes Israeli kindergarten

A balloon carrying a firebomb launched from Gaza landed in the yard of a kindergarten in the southern Israeli town of Tkuma on Tuesday while young children were playing there. The bomb caused a small...
Oshri Bitau with his mother and their new piano. Photo: Hadashot news.

Young Ethiopian Israeli receives piano from former prime minister Ehud Barak

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A young Ethiopian-Israeli boy whose rare musical talent got him featured on Israeli news was gifted his very own piano by a former Israeli prime minister. Ten-year-old Oshri Bitau from Nazareth Illit was discovered to...
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who led a surprise upset of Rep. Joe Crowley (D-N.Y.) in a Democratic party primary on June 27. Credit: Facebook.

NY Democratic Socialist candidate slams Israel, though says she’s not versed on Israeli-Palestinian conflict

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Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who made headlines last month when she upset incumbent Rep. Joe Crowley (D-N.Y.), one of the highest-ranking Democrats in the House, expressed confusion over the facts regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict while...

Actress Natalie Portman remembers Polish-born Jewish writer

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Ms Portman’s grandfather was also born in central Poland. She recorded the video for the animal rights organization PETA to show how Singer’s progressive ideas still apply after all those years. Speaking of the writer’s...
Jewish community professionals, educators, rabbis and lay leaders recently met at Temple Kol Ami Emanu-El in Plantation to inaugurate the Thought Leadership Forum for the Jewish Disabilities Inclusion Project. (GOODMAN JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF)

Goodman JFS launches Jewish Disabilities Inclusion Project

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Jewish community professionals, educators, rabbis and lay leaders representing 12 synagogues and organizations throughout Broward County recently met at Temple Kol Ami Emanu-El in Plantation to inaugurate the Thought Leadership Forum for the Jewish Disabilities Inclusion Project. The Jewish...