Daily Archives: August 16, 2019
Unlikely absorption centers: ‘Olim’ find soft landing in Israel through nonprofit work
For most, moving to Israel is the realization of a dream. After years of hoping and planning, making aliyah and taking root in the Jewish state is a joyous and exultant experience. Still, the big move is not...
While a consensus rules in Israel, US politics becomes more divisive
It used to be that Israel and the United States represented two very different political paradigms.
The two major American political parties may have had their disagreements, but the difference in their worldviews was slight...
Why Jews should care about the Hong Kong democracy protests
It’s more than 30 years since pro-democracy student demonstrators were brutally crushed by Chinese security forces in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square—a graphic sign that while communism was in the process of collapsing elsewhere in the...
Palestinian groups behind Omar-Tlaib canceled trip express anti-Semitism, links to terrorism
The Palestinian groups that were part of Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) canceled trip to Israel and the West Bank have a public record of openly expressing anti-Semitism, supporting the...
Buenos Aires synagogue now being reclaimed after being overrun for decades by squatters
Its hallowed walls smeared with sordid anti-Semitic graffiti after being taken over by squatters for the past two decades, one of Buenos Aires’s oldest synagogues has been reclaimed through the efforts of a local Chabad-Lubavitch emissary,...
Rep. Ted Lieu uses anti-Semitic trope, accusing US Ambassador Friedman of dual-loyalty
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) accused U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman on Thursday of dual-loyalty, a common anti-Semitic trope, posting in a now-deleted tweet, “Dear @USAmbIsrael: You are an American. Your allegiance should be...
After being granted entry by Israel to visit grandmother, Tlaib cancels West Bank trip
After rejecting entry to Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and fellow congresswoman Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Thursday due to their support for the anti-Israel BDS movement, Israel’s Interior Minister, Aryeh Deri suddenly approved on...
Dermer: Denying entry of Omar, Tlaib into Israel not due to pressure from Trump
Israeli Ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer dismissed accusations that the decision to bar Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) from entering Israel was the result of pressure by U.S....
Friedman says US backs Israel’s decision to bar House Reps. Omar and Tlaib
U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman said in a statement on Thursday that the United States “supports and respects” Israel’s decision to deny entry to Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.)
“The...
Seattle police investigate racist fliers on synagogues, timed to Tisha B’Av
Police from Seattle’s bias crimes division are investigating after racist fliers were found outside at least two synagogues in the city on Tisha B’Av, a Jewish national day of mourning.
According to the Seattle Police...