Monthly Archives: July 2023
Israel rebukes Amman over harassment of religious Jews
Israel has lodged an official complaint with Jordan over the repeated harassment of religious Jewish tourists at border crossings, the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem said Tuesday.
The protest expressed in a letter from Foreign Minister...
African-American Christians seek to fulfill MLK’s dream in Israel
A delegation of 200 African-American Christian women met on Tuesday with leaders of the Knesset’s Christian Allies Caucus in Jerusalem, seeking to strengthen the ties of friendship with the Jewish people epitomized by the...
Real Madrid opens Jerusalem soccer clinic
Spanish superclub Real Madrid opened its youth training camp in Jerusalem on Monday, welcoming teenage soccer players from Israel, Morocco, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority.
The children of personnel at foreign missions in Israel will...
High Court justices cut trip short to study petitions against reform law
Several Israeli Supreme Court Justices visiting Germany cut their trip short and are returning to Jerusalem to study petitions opposition groups filed against the “reasonableness law” the Knesset passed on Monday.
All 64 members of...
Biden named Jewish collector who bought Hunter’s art to prestigious role
Despite President Joe Biden’s assurances that he has steered clear of his son Hunter Biden’s business dealings, a Business Insider report reveals that a collector who has bought Hunter’s art was named by the president to a...
Israeli labor court orders doctors to end strike
An Israeli labor court on Tuesday afternoon ordered the Israeli Medical Association to end its day-long strike over the judicial reform law passed the previous day.
Israeli Health Minister Moshe Arbel had filed an injunction...
Netanyahu’s next US challenge: Trump
Less than a week had passed since Thomas Friedman's dramatic column about the United States beginning to "reassess" its relationship with Israel when the phone rang at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office in...
Foundations of Nuclear War Avoidance: An Intellectual and Legal Challenge
“It must not be forgotten that it is perhaps more dangerous for a nation to allow itself to be conquered intellectually than by arms.” —Guillaume Apollinaire, “The New Spirit and the Poets” (1917)
Nuclear weapons...
Cohen prepares free-trade deal with Vietnam
Israel’s Foreign Minister Eli Cohen met in Jerusalem on Monday with visiting Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister (one of four) Tran Luu Quang. The two marked 30 years of relations between their nations and made...
Thomas Friedman, the court Jew
“Court Jews” have existed throughout the history of the Diaspora. They were Jews who rose to positions of power and influence under the rulers of the nations in which they lived. Unfortunately, most of...