Daily Archives: December 2, 2019
A new kind of ambassador: The rise of Israel’s Shalva Band and Netta Barzilai
As the Shalva Band and 2018 Eurovision Song Contest winner Netta Barzilai redefine what it means to be beautiful and successful, perhaps they are, at the same time, redefining what it means to be...
Orphaned in Mumbai in 2008, Moshe Holtzberg celebrates his bar mitzvah
Moshe Holtzberg, who was orphaned in the Mumbai Chabad center massacre that took the lives of his parents 11 years ago this week, was called to the Torah for the first time in his hometown of Afula, Israel, on Shabbat and celebrated his bar mitzvah on...
Israeli wheat exhibit stirs up big emotions in Tokyo
Who would have thought an exhibit about wheat could be so emotional?
An Israeli installation titled “Goren” won first prize—the Big Emotions Award—as part of the Jerusalem Design Week delegation at Design Art Tokyo 2019 in October.
Visitors to the...
EU’s Blatant Anti-Semitism
The BDS Movement began as an international civil insurrection against Israel following a series of military failures by combined Arab armies.
It was designed to inflict severe, even crippling, economic damage on Israel. International agencies...
Donald Trump’s War on Truth and Justice: Crude, Unprecedented and Still Accelerating
“To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images.”–Plato, The Republic
For US President Donald J. Trump, policy making by imposed chaos has become normal. Again and again, we...
Netanyahu cancels visit to NATO summit in London, citing ‘logistical problems’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has cancelled his planned trip to the annual NATO summit in London, despite being scheduled to meet with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on the sidelines of the...
An Israeli-American summit where concern for Israel transcends political affiliations
Ahead of the Israeli-American Council (IAC) National Summit in South Florida on Dec. 5-8, co-founder and CEO Shoham Nicolet spoke with JNS about his vision for IAC, the fastest-growing Jewish organization in the United...
Study shows most supporters of ‘Palestine’ at UC Berkeley can’t find it on a...
Many students who claim to support the Palestinian cause actually know very little about the Israel-Palestinian conflict, according to a recent survey conducted at the University of California, Berkeley.
Ron E. Hassner, the Helen Diller...
Netanyahu warns Europe over Iran sanctions-relief efforts
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned European nations on Sunday that they were making a big mistake by trying to salvage the nuclear deal with Iran through a special mechanism that would bypass U.S....
Israeli defense minister approves new Jewish neighborhood in Hebron
Israeli Defense Minister Naftali Bennett on Sunday approved the planning of a new Jewish neighborhood in the city of Hebron.
The decision comes after years of legal battles between the city’s Jewish and Arab residents...