Monthly Archives: August 2020
For first time ever, Israeli cyclist, team take part in Tour de France
Cyclist Guy Niv and his Team Israel Start-Up Nation took off at the Tour de France on Saturday, making them the first Israeli and Israeli team to participate in the prestigious cycling competition now in its...
Netanyahu: ‘For far too long, the Palestinians have had a veto on peace’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu touted the newly announced normalization deal with the United Arab Emirates as a game-changer for the region that could upend the underlying paradigm previously governing the peace process, at...
The Trump Presidency And Israel: An Injurious Patronage
Abstract: Despite widely-held presumptions in Israel that US President Donald J. Trump remains a net asset for their country, nothing could be further from the truth. For several clear and compelling reasons, there are no...
PM Netanyahu meets with Senior US Presidential Adviser Jared Kushner and US National Security...
Following are Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's remarks today (Sunday, 30 August 2020), at the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem, at the joint statements with US National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien and Senior Advisor to...
Arts, Provocation, and Jewish History – with Miri Koral
Arts, Provocation, and Jewish History with Aaron Henne Episode 9 8-19-2020 Miri Koral.
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שלמה באַסטאָמסקיס ייִדישע פֿאָלקסרעטענישן / Shloyme Bastomski’s Yiddish Folk Riddles
זײ זײַנען שפּילעװדיק און פֿול מיט הומאָר און טראָגן אין זיך ייִדישע קולטורװערטן. דערצו שאַרפֿט מען זיך מיט זײ דעם מוח. די ווײַטערדיקע פֿאָלקסרעטענישן, פֿאָרגעלייענט פֿון פּערל טייטלבוים, געפֿינען זיך אין שלמה באַסטאָמסקיס...
Solving The Problems Of Life Without Machines
In navigating the pathways in our lives, we all are confronted with lots of problems to solve on a regular basis. Problems are those situations that have to be corrected in order to make...
August 29, 1865: Robert Remak, the first Jewish university professor (1847) in Poland, died
Robert Remak, the first Jewish university professor (1847) in Poland, died on this date in 1865. Remak was a doctor of neurology who made important discoveries about nerve fibers and named the ectoderm, mesoderm,...
A personal remembrance of Edward Alexander
Shortly after the 1973 Yom Kippur War, a small group of Jewish students at the University of Washington in Seattle decided that they needed to be more active in educating the campus about Israel’s...
Despite limits on Uman pilgrimage, some hold out hope to visit for Rosh Hashanah
Each year, tens of thousands of Jews from across the world make a pilgrimage to Uman, Ukraine, to celebrate Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, at the grave of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov.
The leader...