Monthly Archives: June 2023
Minnesota backs off on challenging religious education
A new law that sought to prevent teenagers attending parochial institutions from participating in Minnesota’s Post Secondary Enrollment Options (PSEO) program now will no longer be enforced.
Loe v. Walz included Christian families and schools who jointly opposed...
House of Lords delegation witnesses ‘sobering’ Israeli security landscape
Twenty members of the British House of Lords went on a four-day mission to Israel from May 28 to June 1.
The trip was “the largest-ever delegation from the British parliament to Israel, marking the...
Israeli lawmakers tour the Binyamin region
The Knesset Land of Israel Caucus toured the Binyamin region in Samaria on Thursday to get a first-hand perspective on the issues facing the residents there.
Binyamin is the most populous regional council jurisdiction in...
Iranian delegation walks out of Danon address in Morocco
Knesset member Danny Danon, speaking in Morocco this week, called on parliaments worldwide to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism.
The former ambassador to the U.N. spoke at the Parliamentary Conference on...
Educating the Israeli education system
Shrinking the school week, school vouchers and closing gaps in teacher training were just a few of the topics floated by a group of English-speaking Likud members during a recent meeting with Israeli Education...
Iraq ‘gradually turning into a source of threat’ to Israel
Last month, almost two years after the United States announced the end of combat missions in Iraq, the White House extended an emergency decree regarding the country due to what it called ongoing obstacles...
What to expect the day after a new US-Iran deal
Washington and Tehran are engaged in indirect negotiations to close a deal with regard to its illicit nuclear program that will effectively bring Iran in from the cold.
While the precise details of the emerging...
US, Iran close to reaching ‘informal, unwritten agreement’
Washington and Tehran are close to reaching an informal agreement on the Tehran regime’s nuclear program, The New York Times reported on Wednesday.
Three senior Israeli officials, an Iranian official and a U.S. official confirmed to the newspaper...
Knesset pushes bill to criminalize incitement against ultra-Orthodox
Israel's parliament on Wednesday voted (54 to 34) to advance a bill seeking to amend Israel's Penal Law to make it a criminal offense to incite against haredim, or ultra-Orthodox Jews.
Sponsoring the bill were Knesset...
New musical ‘Fury and Elysium’ showcases women in pre-war Berlin
One of Stephanie Martin’s favorite parts of the musical “Fury and Elysium,” whose script she penned, is when the lover of a Socialist activist character named Rosa Luxemburg tells her that she is “too...