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Daily Archives: December 9, 2019

To major UNRWA donor countries: What is being done with your money?

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You, dear Arutz Sheva reader, can make a difference if you send this letter or a version of it, to the ten major donors to UNRWA. Information about those countries’ representatives is below, following...
Ohr Meir & Bracha: The Terror Victims Support Center hosts an annual Hanukkah party for hundreds, complete with a clown and toy giveaways, December 2019. Credit: Courtesy.

Give it up for the (Israeli) kids: Hanukkah and winter drives

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The staff and volunteers at Yad Ezra V’Shulamit’s children’s center in Jerusalem began noticing that one little girl only came to the after-school program every other day. And when they asked her why, she told them. “It’s because...
Classic Hanukkah sufganiyot, or jelly-filled doughnuts. Credit: Pixabay.

Happy Harlequin! Romance-book house works Hanukkah into its seasonal novels

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There must be something about Jewish heroes of late. Not only is one featured in a new Hallmark Channel movie, Holiday Date, two were recently featured in romance novels from Harlequin’s Super Edition imprint. The latest, Holiday by Candlelight by...
Artist Marc Bennett with his mosaic illustrating the history of the Star of David

Traveling Israel exhibit opens in Florida

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On one side of the seating area on Sunday, Dec. 8, was a documented German cattle car used to transport Jews from Warsaw to their death in Treblinka.  On the opposite side was a...
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at a campaign rally in Iowa on Nov. 10, 2019. Source: Facebook.

Don’t let Bernie Sanders get away with redefining ‘pro-Israel’

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Linda Sarsour did it again. The Palestinian-American BDS activist/anti-Trump “resistance” activist spoke at a conference of American Muslims for Palestine and let loose with another rhetorical missile at the Jews. In a speech aimed...
U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem on May 23, 2017. Credit: U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv.

U.S. Foreign Policy Threats to Israel’s National Security: Strategic Imperatives for Jerusalem

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“Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.”-W.B. Yeats, The Second Coming Though U.S. President Donald Trump describes himself as pro-Israel, any seriously analytic assessment of his foreign policies would point toward a different conclusion. On the...
Ballots at a voting station in Jerusalem on Sept. 17, 2019. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Tentative March 2, 2020 date set for unprecedented third Israeli elections

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Likud, and Blue and White, have agreed that barring a last-minute breakthrough by Dec. 11, Israel will go to its third elections of 2019 on March 2, 2020. The proposed election date must still pass...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel at Auschwitz-Birkenau on Dec. 6, 2019. Source: Auschwitz Memorial via Twitter.

Merkel pledges $66 million donation from Germany to Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation

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Germany will donate $66 million to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation, German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced on Friday during her first-ever visit to the former Nazi concentration camp. The funds, half to come from Germany’s federal government and half...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández in Jerusalem on Oct. 29, 2015. Credit: Kobi Gideon/GPO.

Honduran president: ‘I will not capitulate to anti-Israel threats’

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Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández was one of the most senior political figures to attend the annual Israeli-American Council (IAC) summit in Florida over the weekend. Hernández seemed to enjoy every moment of the three-day...
Blue and White Party No. 2 speaks at the Israel Allies Foundation’s annual Chairman’s Conference., Dec. 9, 2019. Photo by Avi Hayun.

Lapid talks Corbyn, anti-Semitism and foreign policy at Jerusalem conference

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“Usually, you’re not supposed to interfere with the election in other countries, but in this case I’m going to make an exception. Jeremy Corbyn is an anti-Semite.” So said Blue and White No. 2 Yair...