Daily Archives: November 22, 2022
Los Angeles Jews honor Muslim scholar of Moroccan Jewry
With the red carpet rolled out and Moroccan music filling the Em Habanim synagogue in Los Angeles last week, more than 400 of the city’s Moroccan and Sephardic Jews gathered to honor Moroccan Muslim...
21st-century Zionism on the shores of the Sea of Galilee
The Start-Up Nation is returning to its agricultural roots.
The country once famed for Jaffa oranges and Jordan Valley dates, and later cherry tomatoes, is coming full circle, with century-old agricultural know-how meeting 21st-century high-tech.
That,...
Momentum launches first and largest social networking app exclusively for Jewish women
Momentum, a global movement for Jewish mothers, has launched Yomm, the first mobile app designed to bring Jewish women closer together to learn, spark conversations, and nurture connections.
Yomm — which translates to “day” in...
‘The New York Times’ demonstrates why Israelis have turned right
There has been a great deal of surprise and confusion in the American press over the results of the recent Israeli elections. Pundits and self-styled “experts,” as well as liberal American Jews, seem to...
No, the ‘override clause’ won’t ‘crush’ Israeli democracy
Israel’s outgoing interim prime minister, Yair Lapid, opened his Yesh Atid Party meeting on Monday by addressing the infamous “override clause.”
“It will crush the court; it will crush Israeli democracy,” he said, referring to...
Report: Likud lawmaker Amir Ohana frontrunner to become foreign minister
Likud Party lawmaker Amir Ohana is the frontrunner to be named Israel’s next foreign minister, while fellow party member Miri Regev has been tapped to head up the Education Ministry, sources said on Tuesday.
Previously,...
Jewish organizations demand Amazon remove ‘Hebrews to Negroes’ book and video
Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt along with numerous other leaders of American Jewish organizations wrote a letter to Amazon head Jeff Bezos and two other senior officials demanding the removal of an antisemitic book...
Israel and Japan take first steps toward free trade agreement
Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid agreed on Tuesday to move toward signing a free trade agreement with Japan.
An FTA between the two countries will mean “discounts for products and goods from Japan for the...
Iran begins enriching uranium to 60% at Fordow nuclear site
Iran has begun enriching uranium to 60% at its underground Fordow nuclear site, Reuters reported on Tuesday.
Tehran had sent a letter to the United Nations’ International Atomic Energy Agency informing the nuclear watchdog of the move,...
Those figurines behind Netanyahu: What do they mean?
Benjamin Netanyahu’s bookcase is familiar to Israelis, having served as backdrop to countless social media messages. To the discerning viewer, the books themselves are a message, for instance the two-volume biography of Vladimir Jabotinsky...