Daily Archives: December 14, 2018
Justice in Jerusalem: Written hours after burial of a 4 day old Jewish infant,...
A little more than two years ago, the Forward broke the story, with clear documentation that the nascent Palestinian Authority had actually established a formal killer incentive system to award those who murder Jews.
A...
The Real Meaning Of “Anti-Semitism”
“A world that remembers the Holocaust. A world without genocide”
Living as a Jew is not easy, being a minority with beliefs that no other religion shares, being stereotype by other religions throughout generations or...
Book review: ‘Memories, Miracles & Meaning’
At 96, Fanny Krasner Lebovits is still going strong. I saw her as recently as December 2nd in attendance at a regional meeting of her beloved Hadassah, an organization to which she has devoted...
If music be the food of love …
The idea came to me when the announcer on the radio said that the next item in the music program would be one of Mozart’s ‘Haydn Quartets,’ i.e., quartets composed by Mozart and dedicated...
A distinct lack of Jewish outrage
American Jews have often been bashed for being too Israel-centric. But while there was a great deal to be said for arguments that the organized Jewish world needed to focus more on building up...
Two IDF soldiers laid to rest, another two hospitalized after new round of attacks
Cpl. Yosef Cohen and Sgt. Yuval Mor Yosef were laid to rest in separate funerals on Thursday and Friday, after being murdered in a shooting attack at the Givat Asaf Junction between Ofra and...
US waivers on Iran sanctions keeping oil prices low
Due to temporary waivers the Trump administration granted to several countries to allow them to import Iranian oil, global oil prices have remained low.
The waivers were issued when the United States reimposed sanctions on Iran in...
Jewish groups seek to minimize tax increase on nonprofits
Providing fringe benefits neither taxable to the employer nor the employee has been a crucial perk that nonprofits, including Jewish synagogues and other institutions, can offer.
But the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017...
Major player behind Taylor Force Act to Congress: ‘Stop US and Israeli appeasement’
In response to reports that the Trump administration has been lobbying Congress to save U.S. funding towards the Palestinian Authority, a leader behind the original effort to successfully defund most of that assistance, is...
LATAM Airlines completes first direct flight from Latin America to Israel
One of South America’s largest air carriers, LATAM Airlines, completed its first-ever direct flight on Thursday from Latin America to Israel.
The trip took place from the Chilean capital of Santiago via São Paulo/Guarulhos-Governador André...