Daily Archives: June 13, 2022

I was heartbroken to learn that The San Diego Repertory Theatre, known locally as The Rep, is suspending operations as of June 19, 2022. Performances by Hershey Felder will be relocated to other venues...

Sigal Kanotopsky—Ethiopia-born, Israel-bound and recently resettled in Philadelphia—speaks of her identity simply: “I am a Jew and an Israeli born in Ethiopia.” But her identity was not always so concisely defined. Kanotopsky, now 46, arrived...

The news has been pretty bleak this week for San Diego area theaters with the closing of the REP, but that should only reaffirm your commitment to come out to support our local gems....

Despite Israel’s conspicuous successes on the technological side of national security, there is little evidence of any meaningful philosophical underpinnings. For the most part, the small country’s defense policies and infrastructures, though impressively complex,...

Israeli democracy is hanging by a thread. That is the lesson of last Monday’s testimony by prosecution witness and former Communications Ministry director-general Shlomo Filber in former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial. Filber...

Praising its global leadership on important foreign-policy issues like democracy and anti-Semitism, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke by video to the American Jewish Committee’s annual Global Forum on Monday. Blinken praised the committee’s...

Judea and Samaria leaders have announced a plan for the establishment of a new national park on nearly 1 million dunams (247,000 acres) of land between Jerusalem and the Dead Sea. The area in question...

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi traveled to Israel on Monday as the European Union seeks to end its dependence on Russian fossil fuel imports, according to...

Israeli and Turkish intelligence agencies recently foiled an Iranian plot to attack Israeli targets on Turkish soil, senior Israeli officials told Ynet on Sunday. “Things are really heating up there,” one official told Ynet, adding that Iran has...

U.S. President Joe Biden is slated to visit Israel and the Palestinian Authority on July 14-15 before heading to Saudi Arabia for a prospective multilateral summit intended to gather the leaders of numerous regional...