Daily Archives: December 12, 2018
(Real) trials and tribulations: Stephen Flatow’s relentless battle against terrorism
We begin with a scene from 60 Minutes: footage of a young woman lying on the ground being attended to by medical personnel alongside a scorched Israeli bus. This haunting scene is followed by Leslie...
Is Ocasio-Cortez really Jewish?
At a time when DNA tests are a national craze, as well as source of political controversy, we shouldn’t be surprised about claims of Jewish identity from anyone. But when they come from someone...
France: Jewish cemetery desecrated near Strasbourg
Anti-Semitic vandalism was discovered on tombstones in the Jewish cemetery of Herrlisheim, in northeastern France, near the city of Strasbourg where two people were killed on Wednesday in a Christmas market shooting attack by an...
How do European countries differ in religious commitment? Use the interactive map to find...
Europeans generally are less religious than people in other parts of the world. But within Europe, there are sometimes sizable differences in levels of religious commitment, according to an analysis of recent Pew Research Center...
US poised to present Middle East peace plan ‘soon,’ says senior adviser Kushner
Following months of having to focus on the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and its subsequent fallout, the White House is now ready to move its attention in the Middle East back to...
‘We don’t want a repeat of Yom Kippur War catastrophe’
Israel Defense Forces’ Ombudsman Maj. Gen. (res.) Yitzhak Brick urged the Knesset on Wednesday to name an investigative committee to probe what he called “serious problems with the IDF’s organizational culture.”
Speaking before a Knesset...
New Haifa mayor rolls back Hamas supporter’s appointment as deputy
The newly elected mayor of Haifa, Einat Kalisch-Rotem, has decided to reverse her decision to appoint controversial Arab Israeli activist Raja Zaatra as her deputy, sources close to Kalisch-Rotem said Tuesday.
Zaatra, a member of...
Influencing North Korea’s nuclear calculations: Trump’s obligation to think strategically
It should now be obvious that the North Korean ruler has no intention of giving up his country’s growing nuclear weapons program. To insistently demand “complete denuclearization” from Kim Jung Un represents a foolish...
Qatar is Leaving OPEC – Who Wins?
Cyril Widdershoven wrote a column describe why 2019 is likely to be a tumultuous year for OPEC. It is worth reading in its entirety, but the central theme of the article is that Iran has been...
Saudi media claims Linda Sarsour has ‘roots in Muslim Brotherhood’
‘In a Dec. 9 article on Al-Arabiya titled “Details of calls to attack Trump by U.S. ‘Muslim Sisters’ allied to Brotherhood,” by Hudah Al-Saleh, criticized Palestinian-American activist Linda Sarsour, “with roots in Muslim Brotherhood and...