Daily Archives: October 3, 2018
Understanding President Trump
What many people don’t understand about President Donald Trump is that he is not a politician; he sees things as an investor. He asks a simple question: “Is this worth investing in?” His approach...
Photographer Irving Penn in retrospect at MOPA
SAN DIEGO – If you were a reader of Harper’s Bazaar or Vogue, especially during the 20thcentury, you might have become very familiar with the fashion photography of Irving Penn, who was born to a Jewish father and...
International Court of Justice orders US to lift some sanctions against Iran
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered the United States on Wednesday to lift some sanctions on Iran in the aftermath of the U.S. reimposing sanctions that were lifted under the 2015 nuclear deal,...
Merkel to abort visit to Israel if Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar is razed
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has threatened to cancel her visit to Israel if the government evacuates the illegal Bedouin settlement of Khan al-Ahmar before her arrival, according to an Israel Army Radio on Wednesday.
Merkel...
Netanyahu urges IAEA to send inspectors to Iran immediately
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lambasted the International Atomic Energy Agency on Tuesday, hours after it issued a laconic statement dismissing his claim of a secret nuclear installation in Iran.
Netanyahu said the agency, which has...
Orthodox Jew, 24, murdered in suspected serial killing in Chicago
A 24-year-old observant Jew was murdered on Tuesday in Chicago’s Loyola Park, the target of a possible serial killer.
Eliyahu Moscowitz, a member of the Chabad-Lubavitch community and a kashrut supervisor at Jewel-Osco, the primary...
Parashat Beresheet בְּרֵאשִׁית
The first word in the Torah is Beresheet “בראשית“ a Divine word that encompass many acronyms and hidden celestial concepts within its letters. Our Sages say that all 613 Mitzvot derive from this one,...
Official says Hamas wants Palestinian state in pre-1967 borders, not two-state solution
During an interview on Turkey’s Channel 9 network, Hamas official and political analyst Talal Nassar said that while Hamas has accepted a Palestinian state within the pre-1967 borders, it does not accept a two-state...
Salaries rewarding terrorists won’t be stopped, says director of PLO Commission of Prisoners
Ignoring the international criticism and condemnation of the Palestinian Authority’s rewarding terrorist murderers with generous salaries, director of the PLO Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs, Qadri Abu Bakr, has emphasized that these salaries will continue:
“Director...
AP covers up Yasser Arafat’s gun at the United Nations
In an article last week about dramatic moments at the United Nations (“Laughter at Trump among a long line of shocking U.N. moments“), the Associated Press covers up the most dramatic element of Yasser...