Monthly Archives: January 2022
‘It’s safer to be Jewish in the UAE than in the USA’
Israeli President Isaac Herzog and first lady Michal Herzog met on Sunday evening with Jewish community representatives in the United Arab Emirates, including a senior rabbi who told them that the UAE is safer...
Herzog, bin Zayed agree to advance security, economic coordination
Israeli President Isaac Herzog and the Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan held a working meeting on Sunday that lasted over two hours. The meeting was the first between the...
Finland says Pegasus spyware found on diplomats’ phones
Finland’s Foreign Ministry announced on Friday that Finnish diplomats had been targeted by Pegasus spyware, developed by the Israel-based NSO Group Technologies.
“The highly sophisticated malware has infected users’ Apple or Android telephones without their...
Israel and India celebrate 30 years of diplomatic relations
Israel and India celebrated 30 years of diplomatic relations on Saturday, with each country lighting up historic sites and special video addresses by their leaders.
Israel-India ties were formalized on Jan. 29, 1992. Since then,...
Jews need to unite and ‘go on the offensive’ against anti-Semitism, assert leaders
Jewish leaders at a virtual panel hosted by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, held on Wednesday to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Thursday, were told by experts that the...
Insights That Evolve In One’s Mind
In my last article, I focused on the process of revelation, both as an interactive process with spiritual entities in the external world, and as an internalized process, relating to surprising revolutionary insights. In...
New survey reveals Israel’s Mizrachim Jewish majority overlooked by school textbooks
The majority of Jews in contemporary Israel are descendants of Jews who were expelled or fled from countries under Muslim rule between 1948 and 1967. Generally referred to as Mizrachim (from the East), they include...
First permanent Holocaust exhibit comes to Muslim-majority Indonesia
In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Yad Vashem opened the first permanent exhibition in Indonesia about the Nazi genocide of Jews during World War II, reported Ynet.
It is one of Yad Vashem’s “Ready2Print” exhibitions aimed at...
Yeshiva University unveils $50,000 Sacks Book Prize to inspire Jewish thought
Erica Brown, vice provost for values and leadership and inaugural director of the Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks-Herenstein Center for Values and Leadership, announces the creation of Yeshiva University’s Sacks Book Prize, funded by the...
The problem with affirmative-action justice
For much of the 20th century, there was a “Jewish seat” in the U.S. Supreme Court. It was first occupied by Justice Louis Brandeis, who served from 1916 to 1939. He was succeeded by...