Daily Archives: June 17, 2019
Danger of ”Economic Peace”
Danger of ''Economic Peace''- by David Bedein from David Bedein on Vimeo.
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‘El Poderosísimo lobby Judío:’ A Spanish Obsession
The veteran Spanish journalist and commentator Iñaki Gabilondo devoted his broadcast slot last week to a dramatic attack on the “powerful Jewish lobby” in the United States. The pretext was the recent decision of The New York Times international...
Lessons from Israel’s first US ambassador
After the slanderous assaults on American Jews and on Israel by U.S. Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), there was a slew of condemnations from many sectors of the American political establishment...
The cruel joke on the Israeli Holocaust survivors
During the first 2019 election campaign, MK Bezalel Smotrich of the Union of Right Wing Parties (URWP) declared: «The State of Israel and the state of the Jewish people will return to be governed...
Bnei Brak Torah scrolls recovered in Palestinian barn
Israeli security forces recently discovered four Torah scrolls stolen from a synagogue in the city of Bnei Brak hidden in a barn in a Palestinian Authority town near Nablus, along with a hunting rifle...
Sara Netanyahu signs plea bargain and will pay fine, bringing fraud case to a...
Sara Netanyahu, the wife of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was convicted on Sunday of taking unfair advantage of a mistake after confessing to the offense as part of a plea bargain struck last...
Hamas ‘investigating’ latest rocket attack on Israel
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said Saturday that his organization is “investigating the rocket fire on Israel, as there was no order to any group to do it.”
Haniyeh was referring to Thursday’s rocket fire on southern Israel, which...
Toronto becomes first city in new Jewish service initiative
Rabbi Benji Levy, CEO of Mosaic United, a partnership between the State of Israel and the global Jewish community, recently met with leaders at UJA Federation of Greater Toronto to formalize the Jewish community’s commitment...
Hamas endorsement of UNRWA elections underscores the agency’s inherent flaws
Following the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine (UNRWA) union elections in Gaza on April 24 and the publishing of the results mid-May, various terror groups, including the Islamic Jihad, Popular Front...
New York enacts law ending religious exemptions for immunizations
Amid a rampant measles outbreak, New York enacted a law on June 13 ending religious exemptions for vaccinations.
The State Assembly passed the bill 77-53, while the State Senate tally was 36-26. Gov. Andrew Cuomo...