Daily Archives: October 19, 2018
Yale Strom’s Broken Consort: Shimmering Lights – new CD/recording on the ARc UK label
‘Shimmering Lights’ is the delightful new studio album from ethnomusicologist Yale Strom. This album is a collection of traditional and new songs and instrumentals celebrating the Jewish Festival of Lights known as Hanukkah. ‘Shimmering...
![By Roland Godefroy [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], from Wikimedia Commons](https://jewishwebsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/1234px-AdnanKhashoggi06-324x235.jpg "The story behind the story of Jamal Khashoggi")
The story behind the story of Jamal Khashoggi
The disappearance and presumed murder of the Saudi exile Jamal Khashoggi has caused a crisis of relations between the United States and Saudi Arabia.
Khashoggi entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to sign some papers...
The top 10 Senate races Jewish voters should be eying
While not officially on the ballot in November, the upcoming midterm elections in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives are widely seen as a referendum on U.S. President Donald Trump. Among the many...
Dershowitz on Lara Alqasem case: ‘Israel never should have detained her’
The reactions of Jewish individuals and Israel-related groups are mixed over Israel’s Supreme Court allowing entry on Thursday to 22-year-old American BDS activist Lara Alqasem after initially refusing to let her enter earlier this month.
“I strongly support the...
Palestinian Authority arrests American citizen for helping Arab sell house to Jews
A Palestinian-American citizen’s family reached out to the U.S. State Department for help after being arrested by Palestinian Authority security forces for his role in selling an Arab-owned house in the Old City of...
New Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader ‘will seek to satisfy Iran’
Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the second-largest armed terrorist faction in the Gaza Strip, announced at the end of last month that it had a new leader.
Ziad al-Nakhleh, formerly the deputy secretary-general of the Iranian-backed Palestinian...
Israel’s Supreme Court grants student appeal, lets Alqasem enter Israel for graduate work
Israel’s Supreme Court heard pro-BDS graduate student Lara Alqasem’s appeal on Thursday to study at Hebrew University, after initially being denied entry into the county earlier this month, and granted her that right.
“Since the...
Fatah lauds Munich Olympics massacre: ‘Black September stunned the world’
Text on screen:
“The time: Sept. 5-6, 1972
The place: Germany, Munich – the Olympic Village
The number: 8
Commander of the operation: Mahmoud Nazzal ‘Che’
The goal: Capturing Israeli hostages to exchange them for Palestinian prisoners
The plan: Breaking...
Egypt outraged by Gaza rocket launch amid truce mediation efforts
Egyptian intelligence chief Abbas Kamel has called off a planned visit to the Gaza Strip, Ramallah and Israel, officially citing a scheduling conflict, but commentators surmised that the cancellation may be a response to rocket...
Is Iran trying to drag Israel into a war in Gaza?
Hamas, the rulers of the Gaza Strip, and Palestinian terrorist group Islamic Jihad both were quick to deny launching rockets from Gaza on Wednesday, after a Grad rocket fired on Israel scored a direct hit on...