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Daily Archives: October 10, 2019

Turkey has invaded northern Syria, threatening the Kurdish population following U.S. forces withdrawing from the area earlier this week. Source: Screenshot.

How black and white thinking clouds realpolitik

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Black and white thinking, which divides the world into absolute camps of good and evil, is associated with religious fanaticism from medieval Christianity to the Islamic world. There are now troubling signs that a secular...
This 1934 billboard for Der Stürmer reads "With Der Stürmer against Judea. The Jews are our misfortune".

Germany has allowed anti-Semitism to flourish once again

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As I write these lines in Jerusalem, Yom Kippur has just come to an end. The news has just reached us that during the holiday, a synagogue was attacked in the German city of...
“Adrian Darya 1.” Source: Screenshot.

Pompeo accuses Iran of lying about oil delivery to Syria

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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused Iran of lying about an oil delivery to Syria through its oil tanker Adrian Darya 1, which was impounded by the United Kingdom off Gibraltar in July and released the following month...
Ewa Moscowitz, 40, at left, poses with her kidney donor Elissa Wald, 50. Source: Facebook/New York Post.

Jewish woman marks 50th birthday by donating kidney to Jewish mother in need

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A woman in Portland, Ore., marked her 50th birthday last week by donating a kidney to a fellow Jewish mother. Elissa Wald, a former resident of New York, was inspired to give her kidney to...
Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman announces his resignation following the ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza during a press conference in the Knesset, Nov. 14, 2018. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Lieberman plan calls for Netanyahu to be first premier, but without right-wing bloc

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Yisrael Beiteinu Party head Avigdor Lieberman presented his plan on Wednesday evening for a government consisting of his own party added to the Blue and White Party, and the Likud Party. According to his proposal, ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a memorial ceremony for Israeli soldiers who fell during the Yom Kippur War, at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on Oct. 10, 2019. Photo by Flash90.

Netanyahu: ‘Israel will defend itself, by itself, against any threat’

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Israel will never rely on other countries for its defense, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday, warning Iran that it would not ignore its threats of destruction. Netanyahu, who spoke at the Hall...
A convoy of U.S. soldiers in Syria in December 2018. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Turkish forces seize targets in Syria during second day of offensive

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Turkey said its forces took over “designated targets” during the second day of its offensive in Syria, Reuters reported on Thursday. The Turkish military is attacking Kurdish forces in Syria and the NATO country said...
Eight officers from the Israel Defense Forces traveled to the United States to meet with Birthright Israel North American delegates as part of a program called Mifgash (“meeting” in Hebrew). Here, they visited the United States Military Academy at West Point in New York, September 2019. Credit: IDF Spox.

IDF, Birthright team up for ‘reverse encounter,’ bringing officers to New York, Boston

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Members of an Israel Defense Forces officers’ delegation who recently visited American Jewish communities in New York and Boston said they were deeply moved by the appreciation they received, while also gaining insight into the...
“I call on the German authorities to continue taking determined action against anti-Semitism,” says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after a gunman kills two people on the Jewish holiday.

Israeli, Jewish leaders respond to Yom Kippur attack on synagogue in Germany

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Israeli and Jewish leaders issued messages of solidarity and calls for action after a neo-Nazi gunned down two people and injured several others in Halle, Germany, on Wednesday, during the Jewish holiday of Yom...

Los dias maraviyozos

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PRIMERA PARTIDA Kirecburnu – Bosforo 26.5.2008 -De mi diario- Ayer la noche me telefono Esther Ferera i me disho ke ya yegaron de Israel, eya, su amiga Pnina Katan, Mazal, la amiga de Pnina i la ija...