Monthly Archives: January 2022
Syrian official slams Russia for ‘silence’ over alleged Israeli strikes
Recent airstrikes on Syria, attributed by Syrian officials to Israel, have led to friction between Syria’s military and their Russian counterparts, the Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar reported on Monday.
A senior Syrian official who spoke to the paper,...
Lapid: Israel holding contacts with world powers amid Iran nuclear talks
Israel is holding contacts with the United States and other world powers in order to influence the nuclear agreement with Iran taking shape and make it as good as possible, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid...
The Joys of Jewish Preserving: Modern Recipes with Traditional Roots, for Jams, Pickles, Fruit...
Food preservation, a necessity before the advent of modern refrigeration, is popular again. The slow food movement, which stresses the use of locally grown food prepared with minimal processing, is a factor. The Jewish...
Bashar Assad’s dangerous game
The resumption of nuclear talks in Vienna between Iran and world powers does not appear to affect Israel, which continues its actions to curb Iran’s establishing itself militarily in Syria or transferring advanced weapons...
Anti-Zionist Jews are more in tune with the Palestinians than Jewish liberals
Pro-Israel liberals took particular pleasure last month in mocking the latest evidence that Jews on the far left know no limits in their hatred for Israel.
The object of their derision was Jewish Currents, a far-left...
Protest against anti-Semitism held in Brooklyn after Jews attacked in hate crime assault
New Yorkers gathered in Brooklyn to protest anti-Semitism following the recent attack on two Jewish men in the neighborhood of Bay Ridge.
An estimated 100 people gathered for Sunday’s protest, which was held exactly a...
US-Israel gaps on Iran remain very large, Israeli observers warn
The gaps between Israel and the U.S. over how to deal with Iran’s nuclear program remain very large, Israeli observers have said. Yet the struggle by Washington to meet Israeli requests to bring forward...
Emma Watson draws controversy over solidarity with ‘Free Palestine’ movement on social media
On the same weekend that Harry Potter, the series that made her famous, celebrated its 20th anniversary, the Instagram account belonging to Emma Watson released a post in support of a “Free Palestine.”
Watson, aka Hermoine...
Iran’s Tasnim news agency launches Hebrew website
Iranian news agency Tasnim has launched a Hebrew-language version of its website, the media outlet announced Monday.
According to a message posted in English, the launch was timed to coincide with the second anniversary of the “martyrdom”...
“The Mystery of the Missing Pitom”, by Beverly Mach Geller
After Yosef, his brothers and father built their sukah, they went to buy a lulav and etrog. Yosef is fascinated by its fragrance and can’t wait until the holiday arrives to smell it again....