Monthly Archives: May 2022
Israel and UAE sign historic free-trade agreement
Israel and the United Arab Emirates signed a free trade agreement on Tuesday in Dubai. The deal is the first of its kind between Israel and an Arab state.
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid hailed...
Report: Hezbollah smuggling ‘jihadist drug’ from Syria to Europe
The Hezbollah terrorist organization is smuggling narcotics from Syria to Europe with the help of the Assad regime, pro-Saudi news channel Al-Hadath reported on Monday.
Sources told Al-Hadath that four main factories are producing Captagon, which is one of...
Conspiracy theories muddy the waters on needed WHO reform
Conspiracy theories cast a shadow over the 75th World Health Assembly, the decision-making body of the World Health Organization (WHO), as hundreds of health officials and diplomats converged on Geneva last week. One of...
Loneliness And Pathological Behavior
One of the worst side effects of the Covid pandemic has been the social isolation. Before the introduction of vaccinations, isolating oneself or one’s family unit was one of the few solid protections that...
‘In Every Generation:’ Playwright Ali Viterbi Out to Show That Jewish Stories Are Worth...
Ali Viterbi has been on my radar ever since I attended my first performance of Women of Valor at the San Diego Repertory Theatre. Viterbi co-authored that play with Artistic Director Todd Salovey, Leah Salovey, Sarah...
Photo essay, book challenge Jewish stereotypes by offering range of viewpoints
A photo-journalism spread published last week by The Guardian newspaper in England depicts the diversity of the United Kingdom’s Jewish population and challenges the stereotype of who is a Jew.
The essay, “Kilts, Mohawks and Plumbing: Smashing...
American Nakba
A new play to top the absurdity of “Springtime for Hitler:” “Rashida Resurrects the Nakba Legacy.” Or, “A Night at the Nakba.”
Leave it to Rep. Rashida Tlaib to inspire a play that ennobles and...
Moishy Klinerman: The terror victim you’ve never heard of
If an American Jewish teenager was attacked and nearly murdered by anti-Semites while on his way to a synagogue in New York or Chicago, it would be headline news.
So why is it that nobody...
Ambassador David Friedman: Israel must ‘grow up’ and decide its eastern border
Israel and Israel alone can make decisions fateful to its future, and it can start with reaching clarity about its eastern border, said former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman at the second Israeli...
Baltimore-area JCC receives bomb threat, second in two weeks
The Jewish Community Center of Greater Baltimore received an anti-Semitic bomb threat on Tuesday, its second in less than two weeks.
The first one, sent on May 15, led to the evacuation of JCC’s Rosenblum Owings...