Daily Archives: May 18, 2021
Tikkun Olam- Adventures in Tijuana
Saturday, May 15th is Teacher’s Day in Mexico. Teachers are celebrated all over the country. As a retired teacher, it was the perfect day to go to Tijuana on a delivery run to a migrant shelter built...
Film Review: Holocaust Survivor on a Mission of Revenge
In the 2016 film Remember, streaming on Netflix, Christopher Plummer plays Zev Guttman, an Auschwitz concentration camp survivor who lost his family in World War II to a sadistic Blockführer known as Kurlander. Zev and his...
A Jewish Odyssey from Ethiopia to Israel and Back
From Africa to Zion: The Shepherd Boy Who Became Israel’s First Ethiopian-born Journalist; a memoir by Danny Adeno Abebe; Yedioth Ahronoth, Chemed Books; © 2021, translated from Hebrew; ISBN 9789652-012869; 404 pages.
This is a...
Tell us, Europe, what should Israel do?
So tell me, what should Israel do? You, who march through the streets of Italy, the U.K. or Germany with Palestinian flags and shout slogans accusing Israel of crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing,...
Gaza and the war between the Democrats
The current conflagration between Israel and Hamas has many old and new features. Among the most novel is the outspoken opposition of progressives within the Democratic Party. Another is the full racialization of the...
Two dead, 184 injured in bleacher collapse at Givat Ze’ev synagogue
Two people were killed on Sunday evening during prayers at an unfinished synagogue in the town of Givat Ze’ev, near Jerusalem.
Binyamin Rubinstein, 23, and 13-year-old Meir Globerman, whose funerals were held in Jerusalem late...
IDF foils attacks on offshore gas rig, eliminates top Hamas naval commander
The Israeli military has thwarted several attempts by Hamas to target Israel’s Tamar offshore gas installation over the past week of fighting between the Jewish state and the terrorist group controlling the Gaza Strip
The...
Arab-Israeli suspect arrested in Jaffa firebombing
The Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) and Israel Police announced on Monday the arrest of an Arab Israeli man in his 20s on suspicion of hurling a firebomb that seriously injured an Arab Israeli...
Seven Israel Police officers wounded in eastern Jerusalem vehicular assault
Seven Israeli police officers were injured on Sunday afternoon when a Palestinian man attempted to run them over at a police checkpoint in the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah.
The assailant, a resident of...
Victim of Lod lynch mob dies of wounds
Fifty-six-year-old Lod resident Yigal Yehoshua died on Monday, less than a week after being critically wounded by a mob of Arab rioters in the central Israeli city.
Yehoshua was struck in the head by a brick while...