Daily Archives: August 12, 2020

Sumner Redstone, the cantankerous media mogul who built Viacom, died Tuesday. He was 97. Famous for declaring that “content is king,” Redstone’s movie theater company National Amusements bought a controlling interest in Viacom in 1987...

A first-of-its-kind charter flight from Mexico carried 230 new immigrants to Israel on Tuesday. Dubbed “Operation Home,” the flight was organized by the Jewish Agency for Israel and Hanoar Hatzioni, with support from Keren...

As Muslim communities in Western nations continue to grow in size and influence, politicians will court their vote. In the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Muslims had the lowest rate of voter registration of any religious...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is enjoying strong support from many American Islamists for his decision to revert the ancient Christian cathedral of Hagia Sophia into a mosque, following a court ruling earlier this month that...

Israel will mark 15 years since the 2005 Gaza Disengagement—former Prime Minister’s Ariel Sharon’s operation to evict all 8,000 or so Israelis from the Gazan Jewish communities of Gush Katif, along with those in...

Before the break of dawn on July 6, Israel upgraded its spy satellite capabilities by a considerable degree after successfully launching the “Ofek 16” satellite into space from central Israel. The satellite is designed...

For the first time in its history, Birthright Israel has postponed all trips since mid-March due to the global coronavirus pandemic. “While tens of thousands of Jewish young adults were planned to visit Israel this...

Jewish and pro-Israel groups slammed the Tuesday victory of Marjorie Taylor Greene, a businesswoman who has made anti-Semitic and other racist remarks, in the Republican run-off in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District. Greene defeated neurosurgeon John Cowan...

 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu harshly criticized Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit on Tuesday over what Netanyahu said was Mandelblit’s failure to take seriously violent threats against him and his family. “Your total lack of action...

A European Union-sponsored study to examine whether textbooks used by schools in the Palestinian Authority incite against Israel actually examined textbooks in Arabic used in the Israeli school system. The study concluded that P.A. textbooks...