Daily Archives: June 11, 2019
TICO features works of Dvorak, Alfven, Stern
David Amos did unusual programming at TICO’s recent concert at Tifereth Israel Synagogue by opening with the longest work of the evening, Dvorak’s New World Symphony. However, the orchestra musicians seemed warmed up enough...
This Shavuot study focused on two other women
It was Erev Shavuot on Saturday evening, June 8. Once again we were talking about two women in the Bible during the customary evening study session at Tifereth Israel Synagogue.
This time, however, the two...
Quarrels seem endemic to the Jewish State
Nahama, the wife of President Reuven Rivlin, died after a protracted illness. She was a great person, well educated and involved in numerous social welfare activities. There was several days of hearing good things...
An ill-deserved assault on Ambassador David Friedman
Palestinian and leftist Jewish leaders called for America’s Israel ambassador to be fired for telling The New York Times in a recent interview that the Jewish state has, “under certain circumstances, the right to retain some, but unlikely all,...
White House: Egypt, Jordan and Morocco to attend Bahrain summit
Egypt, Jordan and Morocco are expected to attend the Bahrain economic summit on June 25-26 as part of the first part of the Trump administration’s long-awaited Mideast peace deal between the Israelis and the Palestinians, the...
Labor leader Avi Gabbay says he will not vie for party leadership again
Labor leader Avi Gabbay will not seek to retain leadership of the party in next month’s primary race, he announced on Tuesday.
“To my supporters, to my friends, to my partners and to my dear...
Tel Aviv beaches found to be among most plastic-polluted
Israel was featured in a report by the World Wildlife Fund last week as home to the third most plastic-polluted shoreline in the Mediterranean, according to a report by Ynet.
The Tel Aviv coast ranked...
‘The New York Times’ to scrap daily political cartoons over anti-Semitism controversy
The international edition of The New York Timeswill no longer feature daily political cartoons, according to the paper’s editorial-page editor James Bennet.
While Bennet says the policy change has been in the works for a year,...
Israeli campaign against BDS results in 30 organizations losing fundraising accounts
Israel’s Strategic Affairs Ministry released a report on Monday revealing that a two-year ministry campaign to dry up the funds of pro-Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement organizations with ties to terrorist organizations has...
Israeli intel led to 2015 discovery of Hezbollah bomb factory in London
It was intel provided by Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency that led to the 2015 discovery of a secret Hezbollah bomb factory in North West London, a senior Israeli official said on Monday.
The remarks, made...