Daily Archives: May 14, 2021
What to know about Shavuot to unleash the power of the holiday
You could say that Shavuot is the most important holiday most Jews know virtually nothing about. And you wouldn’t be completely wrong.
Nonetheless, the holiday—beginning after sundown on Sunday, May 16, and continuing through the evening of...
‘Your people will be my people’: A Shavuot shout-out to Ruth’s ‘daughters’
“You shall love the convert for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.”
— Deuteronomy 10:19
There was a moment some 2,500 years ago when a recently widowed Moabite princess refused to abandon her aging mother-in-law...
Israeli Right-Wingers Exacerbate Hostilities with Palestinians
Whenever trouble erupted in Israel during the 1980s, “colleagues” in my newsroom in central Pennsylvania would gaze at me suspiciously. At a laundromat in the same small town, a Democratic city councilman complained about...
For Palestinians, the past remains the future
Judging by the present pattern, the next conflagration over Gaza—and by extension, the still-unresolved Palestinian question—will occur in 2028 or so, just in time for the 80th anniversary of Israel’s creation. And judging by...
US envoy Hady Amr arrives in Israel to de-escalate conflict
U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary for Israel and Palestinian Affairs Hady Amr arrived in Israel on Friday as part of efforts by the Biden administration to de-escalate the conflict in the region.
The U.S. embassy in...
At an Israeli embassy, supporters rally to get out truth about Israel
American supporters of Israel rallied in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, expressing their solidarity with the Jewish state that they feel is being misrepresented by the international community and...
New York lawmaker draws fire over controversial tweet erasing Israel off map
Claiming that she was misunderstood, a New York state assemblywoman deleted a controversial tweet that replaced a map of Israel with Palestine and adorned with flowers.
“I deleted a previous tweet that led to misunderstandings...
Fellowship adds new mobile bomb shelters in bombarded Ashkelon, Israel
In response to the barrage of nearly 2,000 rockets being launched by Hamas in the Gaza Strip into Israel, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews has placed 13 mobile bomb shelters this week...
Biden believes Israel’s response to Gaza rockets has been proportionate
U.S. President Joe Biden said on Thursday that he considers Israel’s response to two days of rocket fire from the Gaza Strip as proportionate.
“One of the things I’ve seen thus far is that there...
Failed Hamas rockets killed Gaza civilians, says security official
Rockets fired by Hamas in the Gaza Strip killed a number of Gazan civilians in the first hours of attacks on Monday, an Israeli security official said on Thursday.
After Hamas fired rockets at Jerusalem...