Monthly Archives: February 2019
Controversial initiatives on abortion from New York, Virginia elicit Jewish commentary
Jewish groups sent mixed reactions to the latest string of controversial late-term abortion initiatives.
New York enacted a law last week that allows abortions to be performed by non-doctors until the point of birth, while Virginia Democratic...
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Assimilation and the American Jewish immigrant experience
It was one of those moments that make so much of the culture of 21st-century America cringe-worthy. Last week on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” longtime network star Tom Brokaw was criticizing supporters of U.S....
Christian group funding incoming flights of Ethiopian immigrants to Israel
In the aftermath of Israel approving immigration flights from Ethiopia, the first group of 80 Ethiopian newcomers will arrive on Monday evening on flights organized by the Jewish Agency and funded by the International...
Amid scathing response, plans for sausage museum at site of Buchenwald canceled
Amid an intense backlash, plans to construct a sausage museum at the site of the former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald, near Weimar, Germany, have apparently been cancelled.
A group called Friends of the Thuringer Bratwurst had released...
40 UN ambassadors visit Poland and Israel on fact-finding, educational tour
Just weeks after Israel withdrew from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) due to allegations of anti-Israel bias and falsifying the significance of Jerusalem to Jews and Christians, Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon led...
Israeli report shows close, vast ties between terror and BDS organizations
A new report by Israel’s Ministry for Strategic Affairs examined 13 international BDS organizations and discovered that senior positions were held by 30 terror activists—20 of whom who had actually spent time in prison...
Israeli study finds cannabis oil improves autism-related symptoms in teens
A new Israeli study shows that more than 80 percent of children with autism-related symptoms who took cannabis oil enjoyed moderate to significant improvement in their condition.
A six-month study at Ben-Gurion University in the...
Spanish railway company refuses tender to build train in ‘occupied’ Jerusalem
A Spanish railway construction company announced on Friday that it had rejected an Israeli tender to build part of the Jerusalem railway because of “the occupation of land through which will pass a section...
Intel-backed Israeli startup raises $30 million
Intel-backed Israeli startup Pliops, which manufactures storage processor technology, has raised $30 million, the company announced this week.
The second funding round included cash from major sources such as Xylinx, Western Digital Capital and Intel Capital,...
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Rashida Tlaib likely a one-termer
U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib may persist the next two years calling out Sen. Marco Rubio’s 800,000 Jewish constituents for dual loyalty, but not likely from Capitol Hill after 2020.
Tlaib is about as vulnerable as...