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Daily Archives: November 23, 2018

President Donald Trump visits Jerusalem's Western Wall on May 22, 2017. Credit: Matty Stern/U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv.

Is there really such a divide between Jews in America and Israel?

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Shouting “All Jews must die,” a refrain not heard much on American soil, Robert Bowers stormed into the Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Congregation in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh on Oct. 27 and...
United Hatzalah “Ten Kavod” volunteers from Kfar Saba set out on a mission to improve an elderly water sports enthusiast’s quality of life by helping him experience the sea in a way he had not done since a life-changing double amputation. November 2018. Credit: United Hatzalah.

‘A Team of Angels’: Helping an amputee find a reason to live

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Two weeks ago, United Hatzalah “Ten Kavod” volunteers from Kfar Saba set out on a mission to dramatically improve an elderly water-sports enthusiast’s quality of life by helping him experience the sea in a...
View of neighborhoods in Ma'ale Adumim, near Jerusalem on October 3, 2017. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90

Judea and Samaria apartment owners file class action against Airbnb in Jerusalem

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A group of Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria filed a class action lawsuit against Airbnb in Jerusalem District Court on Thursday, after the travel home rental company erased 200 listings which they said...

Dos Kuentizikos De Viejizikos

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EL MANKO DE KUDYADO DEL SERVISYO FUNEBRE El servisyo funebro para la seremoniya del enterrimiento yego a una ande se aviya murrido una mujer resamente. Los portadores estavan yevando la mujer abasho del apartamente kuando sin...
[Official Facebook page of Abbas Zaki, Nov. 19, 2018] (PMW)

“Real men approach death with a smile” – Fatah leader tells students

In a speech at Al-Quds Open University, Fatah Central Committee member and Fatah Commissioner Abbas Zaki urged new students to seek death for Jerusalem. Zaki shouted to the young people: “Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar! Cursed...
Adam Smith statue in Edinburgh's High Street with St. Giles High Kirk behind. by Kim Traynor

Adam Smith, Trump-style economic policy, and Black Friday side-eye

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Black Friday is a good time to recall certain "classical" observations about economics and society. We ought to recall Adam Smith, both his Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) and his much better-known Inquiry into the Nature and Causes...

‘Oldest nun’ who helped save Jews in WWII dies aged 110

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A nun believed to have been the oldest in the world has died at the age of 110. Sister Cecylia Maria Roszak was born in Poland on March 25, 1908, and entered a cloistered convent...

Do Not Remove a Fly From Your Friend’s Forehead With an Ax…” and Other...

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this week's proverbs פאַרטרײַבּ נישט די פליג פון דײַן פרײַנדס שטערן מיט אַ האַק transliterated fartrayb nit di flig fun dayn fraynd's shtern mit a hak in English do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with an...