Monthly Archives: November 2020

Here’s an item you never would have read in the United Arab Emirates’ Khaleej Times until quite recently: “First Hebrew institute to open in UAE in January.” Josh Samet, director of the forthcoming Educational Hebrew Institute, told the Khaleej Times that...

The dispute that is now rocking the Muslim world is not about whether the Prophet Muhammad’s famous “Night Journey” actually took place or was merely a dream. The current debate, which is intertwined with...

Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the senior Iranian nuclear scientist assassinated by a hit squad outside of Tehran on Friday, was being “reserved” by the Iranian regime for the day that Iran’s nuclear program would enter a...

On June 23, 2014 the Knesset adopted a law which designates November 30th as an annual, national day of commemoration for the 850,000 Jewish refugees who were displaced from Arab countries and Iran in the 20th...

It is encouraging to see that there are still some people around who are interested in propping up one of the five senses that is normally pushed aside in the technological transformation of society. ...

For several years now, I have been campaigning to declare November 29 the Jewish Thanksgiving Day; a day where we give thanks to Lady History and to the many heroic players who stood behind...

British archaeologist Marc Aurel Stein, who made four major expeditions to Central Asia between 1900 and 1930 and recovered artifacts from several lost cultures along the historical Silk Trail, was born in Budapest on...

Diaspora and Israeli organizations and communities representing millions of Jews around the world will participate on Saturday in a mass Kaddish (Mourners’ Prayer) and say a specially designed azkara (Memorial Prayer) for Jews buried in inaccessible...

The COVID-19 virus that has hijacked humanity in 2020 is 10,000 times smaller than a grain of salt. It’s not even a living organism, like bacteria. It’s an inanimate object, more like a microscopic...

“You are a citizen of the universe.” Epictetus —————— In the final analysis, humankind can survive on this imperiled planet only by embracing visionary ways of thinking. Among these indispensable ways, an overriding “design theme” must concern...