Daily Archives: August 1, 2018
Latif I El Rey
Buenos diyas
Keridos Amigos i mis Amigitas…
Oy me alevanti antes de las 5 de la demanyana i ya ize muncho echo ! Dayinda no amanesyo enteramente ma se puede entender ke sera un diya nuvlado,...
The internal struggle for the soul of Islam
Since Sept. 11, 2001, whenever there has been a terrorist attack in the West (and there have been many), the question everyone asks is: “Where are the moderate Muslims?”
Well, we are here, but our...
Why the Israelis aren’t as worked up about the Western Wall as Diaspora Jews
The future of prayer at the Western Wall has become one of the most contentious issues among Diaspora Jewry in the past year, mainly as a result of the Israeli government’s June 2017, suspension of a...
Confronting Germany’s mixed record on tackling BDS
Malca Goldstein-Wolf, a German Jew, made headlines last year when she convinced the German broadcasting network Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) to pull its sponsorship of Roger Waters’ German tour. She wrote a heartfelt letter to WDR’s...
Legislation aims to make U.S. aid to Palestinian refugee agency contingent on reform
New legislation introduced in Congress recently is seeking to make American aid to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNWRA)—the U.N. refugee agency that is solely dedicated to the Palestinian refugees—contingent on reform.
According...
Russia says Iran will keep its distance from Israeli border
Russia says that Iranian forces will withdraw to at least 85 kilometers (53 miles) of Israel’s border, according to an interview with Russia’s chief Syria on the Sputnik news site.
Russian Presidential Special Envoy for...
Travel site Booking.com no longer refers to Jerusalem as an ‘Israeli settlement’
The online travel reservation service Booking.com has erased its categorization of Jerusalem as an “Israeli settlement” after being contacted for questioning by a Belgian Jewish newspaper.
Booking.com, which is based in Amsterdam, made the change...
Jewish aid group and Israel team up to alleviate African poverty through agtech
In a ceremony in Jerusalem on Tuesday, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) and Israel’s Ministry of the Economy formalized their partnership to leverage Israeli agricultural technology as part of JDC’s new Tikkun...
Congressmen urge Treasury Department to blacklist Palestinian official
Reps. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.) and Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.) are urging the Treasury Department to use Executive Order 13224 to blacklist a top Palestinian official Issa Karake, head of the PLO’s commission of prisoners, who...
De hauts dignitaires religieux saoudiens : il faut intégrer les femmes dans l’establishment religieux
Récemment, des débats ont eu lieu en Arabie saoudite sur la désignation de femmes à des postes liés aux institutions religieuses, comme émettre des fatwas et occuper le poste de juges religieux (qadis).
Dans son...