Daily Archives: August 30, 2018
To Grow Together With Other States: An American Imperative
“The egocentric ideal of a future reserved for those who have managed to attain egoistically the extremity of everyone for himself is false and against nature.”
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man
Ominously, Donald Trump’s retrograde ideas...
Will Israel suffer for liking Trump?
The last couple of weeks have not been kind to U.S. President Donald Trump. The guilty verdicts that took down his former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, and the plea deal that led his former...
Middle East Forum launches new project to combat local-based impact of radical Islam
The Middle East Forum announced a new project geared to combat the local impact of radical Islam. The Counter-Islamism Grid (CIG) will be launched as a separate entity next month, according to spokesperson Gregg Roman.
The initiative...
In Israel, discovering a shared reality through disability inclusion
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has dragged on for so long and with such persistence that many have begun to wonder if it is has simply become Israel’s new “normal.” Despite the constant fighting and amplified...
Rabbi Samuel introduces Philo to the modern world
The 1stCentury Jewish philosopher and religious scholar, Philo, was very familiar with the Torah, commenting here and there on different portions of the Five Books of Moses in writings that were spread over approximately...
Iran fires off warnings, taking aim at America and Israel
Iran threatened the United States and Israel on Wednesday over the 2015 nuclear deal and a warning from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
In response to Iran and Syria agreeing earlier this week to help the latter’s armed forces,...
Ruling: Settlements built on Palestinian-owned land can be legalized
Twenty years after it was founded, the outpost of Mitzpe Kramim can be legalized, the Jerusalem District Court ruled on Tuesday in a precedent-setting decision.
The outpost, on a ridge in the Binyamin region overlooking...
US defense chief puts Iran on notice
With the European Union and Iran, which is behind a larger disinformation campaign than previously reported, recently pushing back against the United States reimposing sanctions on the regime earlier this month—lifted under the 2015 nuclear deal, which...
Abbas urges ‘review’ of all past agreements with Israel
Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas said on Tuesday that it’s time to “open for review” all Palestinian past agreements with Israel, including the 1993 Oslo Accords.
The Oslo Accords effectively created the Palestinian Authority and...
Filmmaker Engages in Tikkun Olam by Camera
For Emanuel Aronson Rund, being behind the camera is his way of fulfilling tikkun olam.
He got his start in Jerusalem, where he grew up, working with Israel’s first broadcast television station in the 1960s....