Daily Archives: September 7, 2018

For the past few months, ever since the US moved its embassy to Jerusalem, the US government officials have been discussing what gesture the US could make to the Palestinian Arab people. “Peace Education” would...

The “it’s” I refer to is a phenomenon pretty much unknown to newer generations of Jews in terms of their direct experience, but it will be remembered clearly by folks who lived through the...

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence put some pressure on Paraguay’s new president, Mario Abdo Benitez, to reconsider his reversal to move its embassy in Israel back to Tel Aviv from Jerusalem, where it moved in...

Turkey will open an embassy in the city of Asuncion in Paraguay, the South American country announced on Thursday, following current Paraguayan President Mario Abdo Benitez’s reversal of the decision by the previous administration,...

To protect its civilians from Hezbollah attacks, Israel is building a wall along its border with Lebanon. A senior Israeli military official emphasized the need for the barrier, saying that although Israeli intelligence monitors the...

A massive painting depicting the biblical “sin of the spies” hangs in the modest office of U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman. “The spies didn’t lie,” Friedman explains his choice of this particular image...

U.S. President Donald Trump marked the upcoming Jewish New Year in a conference call with several dozen American Jewish leaders on Thursday and discussed with them his administration’s policies on Israel, the Palestinians and...

IfNotNow has a plan. It’s determined, according to its website, to create nothing less than “a movement led by young Jews to reclaim the mantle of Jewish leadership from the out-of-touch establishment.” Or, more...

Dear Friends, What started yesterday as a sunny warm end-of-summer day, ended with a scene that looked like a hurricane had just torn through the farm. Isolated thunderstorms were predicted for yesterday afternoon, but we had...

Now, for a limited time only (until Sept. 30), the CDs that accompany my textbook Yiddish: An Introduction to the Language, Literature & Culture, Vols. I and II will be available at a greatly reduced...