Daily Archives: September 22, 2021
Thousands gather at Western Wall for Sukkot Priestly Blessing
Thousands gathered at the Western Wall on Wednesday morning for the traditional Sukkot Priestly Blessing.
Present for the ceremony were Israel’s Ashkenazi and Sephardi chief rabbis, David Lau and Yitzhak Yosef, as well as Rabbi...
A Jewish Perspective on the Pandemic
Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel, spiritual leader of Temple Beth Shalom in Chula Vista, has created a pearl of a book that I highly recommend. It is a fascinating, encompassing, very erudite and broad in...
Tzimmes Offers Full Array of Jewish Music in ‘The Road Never Travelled’ CD
Tzimmes, the Vancouver-based Jewish band under the direction of Moshe Denburg, has just released a two-disc recording, The Road Never Travelled, celebrating its 35th anniversary. This is the group’s fourth album.
Denburg figures prominently in all the...
Israel’s new ambassador to US seeks to heal rifts and build bipartisan support
The Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI) bid farewell last week to its longtime senior fellow Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Michael Herzog, who was recently appointed Israeli’s Ambassador to the United States. Participating in the event were former...
The Houthis and the Jews
The following are remarks that the author delivered to the European Organizations Union for Peace in Yemen and the Yemeni Coalition of Independent Women, at the conference, “Terrorism & Violations of the Rights of...
Presidential Irrationality and Wrongdoing in US Nuclear Command Authority
Abstract: In post-World War II memory, no greater political danger has confronted the United States than the presidency of Donald J. Trump. Endowed with nuclear command authority, this unstable and openly law-violating American leader...
Iranian president condemns US sanctions, ‘Zionist occupier’ in UN address
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, addressing the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly by video on Tuesday, called for an end to ongoing American sanctions, describing them as the United States’ “new way...
Israeli avocado plants are growing in India
In 2016, undergraduate business student Harshit Godha ran across an article that inspired a dream: establishing one of India’s first commercial avocado orchards.
Wanting to learn from Israeli experts how to do this in his hometown of...
Pro-Israel leaders, senior officials hold counter-conference to protest upcoming Durban IV
A group of pro-Israel academics, activists, government officials and members of the media held a virtual conference strongly criticizing the Durban conferences against racism, which from its first and most notable conference in Durban,...