Daily Archives: March 5, 2019
Lament from the South Hebron hills
The New York Review of Books is not renowned for embracing Israel unless it is with a literary choke-hold. Proudly identifying its focus on “the great political issues of power and its abuses,” Israel became...
Jewish Agency offers tour of Mexican Jewish sites
The Jewish Agency for Israel has announced its first-ever mission to Mexico, May 22-27, in order to gain a more thorough perspective about Jewish life in the United States’ neighboring country.
As the American Jewish...
Do the Jews really need their own Nobel Prize?
If the Genesis Prize was hoping for more media attention for its annual awards ceremony this year, it certainly is going to get it. By announcing that they are sticking with their selection of...
Jews and Muslims remember victims of 1992 Khojaly genocide in Azerbaijan
The American Sephardi Federation and the Muslim American Leadership Alliance of New York held a special event last week remembering victims of the 1992 Khojaly genocide in Azerbaijan.
The ceremony was in memory of the 613...
Israel ranked eighth most powerful country in world
The US News & World Report annual international survey found Israel to be the eighth most powerful nation in the world for the third year in a row, based on responses from 21,000 people in four...
New Likud strategy: Drain votes from rival right-wing parties
The Likud’s election campaign will see a concerted effort to siphon off votes from smaller right-wing parties and a head-on attack on the newly formed Blue and White Party, headed by former Israel Defense...
How the former generals of the Blue and White Party view the Palestinian issue
According to polls, the Blue and White Party is the largest in Israel at this time. Three out four of its senior members are former chief of staffs of the Israel Defense Forces.
Led by...
Pope Francis announces Vatican will open Holocaust-era archives
Pope Francis announced on Monday that the Vatican archive surrounding the Holocaust when Pope Pius XII, who has been criticized for doing little to save Jews and for being silent during the atrocities, led the Catholic...
Chassidic rocket scientist overcame Soviet oppression to guide Israel’s space launch to the moon
One of the chief engineers involved in the creation and post-launch supervision of the moon-bound Israeli spacecraft “Beresheet” is a Chabad-Lubavitch Chassid who overcame Soviet oppression and anti-Semitism to play a leading role in Israel’s public and private space programs.
Mathematician...
12 pro-Israel groups call on Pelosi, Engel to remove Omar from House Committee
Twelve pro-Israel groups delivered a letter on Monday to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), urging for the removal of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) from the committee amid the...