Daily Archives: August 22, 2018

Was 5778 a good year? For Jews around the world, it was the usual mixed bag of bad (and even worse) news. The U.S. embassy to Israel was finally moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem,...

“The first general law, which is to be found in the very end of the society of Nations, is that each Nation should contribute as far as it can to the happiness and advancement...

“Nana,” as many of us know from the time as children we were mouthing our first words, means “grandma” and, in this case, “Nana” refers to Maryla Dyamant Michalowski, z”l, a Holocaust survivor who...

After years of financial uncertainty, the future of Denver's Staenberg-Loup Jewish Community Center has been restored. A coalition of local donors recently contributed approximately $16 million to help the nonprofit organization pay off its long-accumulated debt of...

Israel’s Environmental Protection Ministry is warning Israelis to protect themselves from insect bites after reporting that 67 people have been hospitalized with West Nile virus. An 18-year-old resident of Israel’s south is in critical condition,...

While maximum pressure of American sanctions against Iran have been effective, the United States is not looking for regime change in the Islamic republic, emphasized John Bolton, U.S. President Donald Trump’s national security advisor. “Just...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Israel will have to pay “a higher price” in peace talks with the Palestinians as a result of official U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital...

During his recent visit to Israel, U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton told Reuters that despite strong Israeli pressure on the United States to recognize Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights, the American policy...

In the past few months, Palestinian Authority (PA) and Fatah officials, headed by PA President Mahmoud ‘Abbas, have continued to hold events and receptions honoring terrorists who carried out attacks, including against Israeli civilians,...

As of late 2017, the Muslim population in Israel stood at 1.562 million, representing 17.8 percent of the country’s general population. It was also an increase of 38,000 people in relation to the previous...