Daily Archives: July 23, 2018
The Nationality Law brouhaha: The failing of Jewish national will?
nation is the culmination of a long past of endeavors, sacrifice, and devotion. … The nation is a soul, a spiritual principle. Two things … constitute this soul or spiritual principle. One is the...
A Holocaust book for older preteens
That there are casualties and atrocities in war for both soldiers and civilians is summed up best by General U. S. Grant, “War is hell!” How about when there is no war? Should civilians...
Israel’s Navy visits French counterpart for first time in decades, conducts joint drills
In a sign of growing Mediterranean cooperation, two Israel Navy missile ships paid a visit to France earlier this month, where they held extensive drills with the French Navy, the first such event to...
Future community center breaks ground in the southern Negev
Quite literally among the booms and billows of black smoke across the nearby Gaza border, deep in Israel’s southern Negev Desert, the new community of Shlomit laid a cornerstone and broke ground for their...
Jewish groups convey mixed reactions over Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh
In the weeks since the nomination by U.S. President Donald Trump of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court, American Jewish organizations have expressed mixed reactions to his sitting on the highest bench...
220-pound stone falls out of the Western Wall, narrowly missing a woman at prayer
A woman praying in the egalitarian prayer plaza was narrowly spared from death on Monday morning when a 220-pound stone fell out of the Western Wall and plummeted to the ground.
A woman—the only person...
Despite Palestinian ire, 2,000 Jews march around Old City Jerusalem for Tisha B’Av
Some 2,000 people took part in the Women in Green organization’s 24th annual “Walk Around the Old City,” in honor of the Tisha B’Av holiday on Sunday, despite calls on the international community by...
Educational outlets launch project to amass testimonies of Jews from the Mizrach
The San Francisco Bay Area nonprofit JIMENA (Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa) has announced a new partnership program with Israel’s Ministry of Social Equality (MSE), Beit Hatfutsot: The Museum of...
Moody’s affirms Israel’s A1 credit rating, gives economy positive outlook
Global-ratings agency Moody’s has changed Israel’s outlook to “positive” from “stable” and affirmed its A1 credit rating.
Moody’s report, issued on Friday, noted the improved economic and diplomatic ties with the moderate Arab states and...
In first Gaza-border fatality since 2014, Israeli soldier shot and killed by Hamas
Givati Brigade Staff Sgt. Aviv Levi, 21, from Petach Tikvah, was killed on Friday by a Hamas sniper during a clash on the Israel-Gaza Strip border, the military said on Saturday.
Levi was wearing a...