Daily Archives: September 21, 2018
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Study abroad in Turkey, anyone?
Earlier this month, the Turkish NBA star Enes Kanter published a moving article in Time magazine about how President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s mushrooming tyranny is impacting his own family.
“This month, my dad will face trial in Turkey for...
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US government’s important new stand against campus anti-Semitism
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently delivered welcome news for Jewish students. OCR reopened a student-backed civil-rights case brought by the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) against Rutgers University.
Importantly, in deciding to...
Volkwagen to cease doing business in Iran, boosting US economic sanctions
The United States has convinced Volkswagen AG to comply with sanctions on Iran and cease conducting most business in the regime, a U.S. official told Bloomberg news.
The Trump administration and the German automotive firm ironed out...
Friedman, Greenblatt blast Palestinian rewarding of Israeli-American’s murderer
U.S. ambassador to Israel David Friedman slammed the Palestinian Authority’s practice of rewarding those who attack Israelis after a Palestinian official announced that the Palestinian teen who killed an Israeli-American earlier this week can receive...
Trump, Netanyahu to speak at UN General Assembly gathering in New York
The Trump administration announced on Thursday that the president will take time to speak with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the sidelines at the U.N. General Assembly meeting next week in New York.
The...
Iran hacks targeted Middle East energy firms prior to upcoming US sanctions
With upcoming American sanctions on Iran in November, the regime has been targeting energy firms and other businesses in the Middle East, according to a U.S. cybersecurity firm on Tuesday.
According to FireEye, an Iranian...
Cleveland Browns sign (Jewish) place kicker Greg Joseph
The Cleveland Browns have signed kicker Greg Joseph, who played football and soccer at Donna Klein Jewish Academy in Boca Raton, Fla.
Joseph, a rookie, was previously a kicker in the Miami Dolphins training camp...
In Israel, learning Torah has no age limit
Yosef Damsker, 86, is a thin man with a gray beard and a large yarmulke. But when he moved to Israel from Leningrad (today, St. Petersburg) in 1990, he was not only secular, he...
Man throws rock into window of Gdansk synagogue during Yom Kippur services
Police released security footage of a man in a dark shirt walking to the New Synagogue in Gdansk, Poland, and throwing a stone into a window during Yom Kippur services.
Authorities appealed to anybody who...
Iran’s activities could ignite a dangerous fire
The events that led to the tragic downing of a Russian plane in recent days over the eastern Mediterranean underline just how dangerous Iran’s activities are to regional and international security.
In the hours that...