Daily Archives: May 6, 2021
KKL-JNF releases never-before-seen photos of Jerusalem
In honor of the 54th anniversary of Israel’s liberation of Jerusalem in the Six-Day War, Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael-Jewish National Fund (KKL-JNF) has released four photos from the days of the British Mandate before the...
Expresso, Halva and Tahini Brownies
I thought for this week’s bake, I would provide the recipe that I get asked to bake more than any other. It is actually quite a simple recipe but if you are a chocoholic,...
US Army’s top chaplain attends Torah-dedication ceremony at Texas base
The U.S. Army’s top chaplain applauded the three-dozen rabbis serving as chaplains for Jewish troops while attending the dedication ceremony of a new Torah scroll at Fort Bliss, an Army base near El Paso,...
Lapid and Bennett officially on the clock to end Netanyahu’s tenure
For the second time in a little more than a year, incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s mandate to form a government has passed to his political rivals. Unable to form a stable right-wing majority...
US acknowledgment of the Armenian Genocide: Its implications
The recent formal recognition by President Biden of the genocide of the Armenian people at the hands of the Ottoman Turks in the early 20th century is not merely a pro forma gesture to...
Democratic pro-Israel group exposes rift among liberals over anti-Semitism envoy
A Democratic pro-Israel group exposed a rift among liberals over who should be the Biden administration’s choice for the next anti-Semitism envoy.
In a now-deleted tweet earlier this week, the Democratic Majority for Israel (DMFI)...
Syria: Israeli helicopter struck target in Syrian Golan Heights
An Israeli helicopter fired a missile at a target on the Syrian Golan Heights early on Thursday, according to Syrian state media.
“A helicopter for the Israeli enemy carried out an attack with a missile...
Top IRGC commander: ‘Quds Force has mastered the art of defeating US policy’
Iran’s Quds Force has mastered the art of diminishing America’s power and influence, Iran’s top military commander said on Wednesday.
Speaking with Iran’s Channel 2 television on May 5, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Commander-in-Chief Maj. Gen. Hossein...
Faith-based legislators lobby governments against ICC war-crimes probe of Israel
Saying he is “appalled and shocked” by the war-crimes accusations made by the International Criminal Court against Israel, Josh Reinstein, head of the Israel Allies Foundation (IAF) and the Knesset Christian Allies Caucus (CAC),...
Canadian court overturns barring ‘product of Israel’ labels on Judea, Samaria wine
A Canadian federal appeals court reversed a lower court’s decision that barred “Product of Israel” labels for wines produced in Judea and Samaria.
In July of 2020, the Federal Court of Canada had ruled that it was...