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Daily Archives: October 3, 2019

Journaliste jordanien : Les musulmans sont les vraies victimes du 11-Septembre

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A l’occasion du 18e anniversaire des attentats du 11-Septembre 2001, Ismaïl Al-Charif, éditorialiste et ancien directeur général du quotidien jordanien Al-Dustour, a écrit que les musulmans en étaient les véritables victimes. Depuis le 11-Septembre...

Columbia celebrates anti-Semitism

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There are very few Jews in Malaysia. I know because I checked with the intelligence community—or at least, looked it up in the CIA World Factbook. But my point is that even though Malaysia...
צילום: אורן פלס Oren Peles [CC BY 2.5 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5)]

Its people and geography make Israel special

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Like every country, Israel has its advantages and its disadvantages. One of the former is its climate, which is on the whole pleasant (at least in Jerusalem) with sunny days throughout the summer, often...
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks at a rally in Raleigh, N.C., on March 11, 2016. Credit Scott Pelkey ne014x/Flickr.

Sanders undergoes heart-blockage surgery, suspends campaign events

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U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who is running for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, underwent a medical procedure on Tuesday following a blockage discovered in one of his arteries, causing his campaign to cancel future events...
Harold “Smoky” Simon displaying his Nefesh B’Nefesh’s Sylvan Adams Bonei Zion Lifetime Achievement Award on Sept. 24, 2019. Source: Nefesh B'Nefesh via Facebook.

Saluting one of the last living heroes of Israel’s fight for independence

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Nothing really prepares you for the Smoky smile and the twinkle in an eye undimmed by nearly a century on earth. And when Harold “Smoky” Simon grins at you, it’s hard to remember that, at...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman during a visit to the West Bank, July 20, 2016. Photo by Marc Israel Sellem/POOL.

Last-ditch Netanyahu-Lieberman meeting ends with no breakthrough

A last-ditch effort by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Yisrael Beiteinu leader Avigdor Lieberman on Thursday morning to form a broad unity government ended in failure. According to a Likud statement, “the meeting...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's attorney Yossi Ashkenazi arrives at the Justice Ministry in Jerusalem on Oct. 2, 2019. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.

Netanyahu’s lawyers: ‘The attorney general is listening to us closely’

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“The attorney general’s people are listening to us closely,” a member of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s legal defense team said on Thursday. Speaking to the media going into the second day of Netanyahu’s pre-indictment hearing,...
British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, May 12, 2017. Photo by Chatham House, London/Wikimedia Commons.

Corbyn sparks controversy for Rosh Hashanah video featuring Hamas supporter

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Jeremy Corbyn sparked outrage for releasing a Rosh Hashanah video that features an activist who last year led a public Jewish mourning prayer for dead members of Hamas. In the clip posted on Twitter ahead...
Singer Demi Lovato at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Source: Screenshot.

Following visit to Israel, singer Demi Lovato calls it ‘absolutely magical’

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Singer Demi Lovato recently returned from a trip to Israel and talked all about the transformative experience on Tuesday on social media. Among her many stops in the country, the 27-year-old visited the Western Wall...
The Spanish flag. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

130,000 Sephardic Jews file citizenship applications in Spain ahead of deadline

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A total of 130,000 applications for Spanish citizenship were submitted by descendants of Spanish Jews expelled from the country in 1492, the Spanish Justice Ministry said on Tuesday, which was the deadline for applications. Jews living in...