Monthly Archives: December 2023
Restoring deterrence
The coming of a New Year is an appropriate time for retrospection.
I’ve been thinking about December 2001. Like many Americans, I was traumatized by the horrific images of the Sept. 11 attacks.
And like many...
Red Cross finds little sympathy among Israelis amid accusations of ineptitude, bias
“Humanitarianism,” “compassion,” “neutrality”—these are the words the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) would like linked to its name. In Israel, the word more commonly associated with the organization is "mud."
The ICRC has...
New war database unveiled by Israel security group
A new website featuring up-to-date data on the Israel-Hamas war was recently opened to the public by the Israel Defense and Security Forum (IDSF).
The website, Israel War Database, contains the latest data on numbers of...
Cohen thanks Japan for sanctioning top Hamas terror chiefs
Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen on Tuesday thanked Japan for moving to sanction top Hamas leaders, including the terror group's chief in the Gaza Strip, Yahya Sinwar.
Tokyo also announced sanctions on Mohammed Deif, the head of...
Israeli Olympic champion to auction medal for Gaza border communities
An Olympic champion who won Israel’s first-ever world gold in gymnastics is auctioning off the medal to raise money for the Gaza border communities devastated in the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas terrorists.
Artem Dolgopyat,...
Ahead of album release, Kanye West apologizes in Hebrew to Jews
After a long history of Jew-hatred, Kanye West—the musician who goes by Ye—wrote in March that he liked Jewish people again after watching a film by Jonah Hill, who is Jewish. But earlier this month, he...
Torah scroll, hidden during Holocaust, brought to Yad Vashem
A Torah scroll hidden in the attic of a synagogue in Poland that was ransacked on Kristallnacht was placed in the Holy Ark at Yad Vashem, Israel's official Holocaust remembrance center on Thursday.
The event...
The Burning Bush : Writings on Jews and Judaism, by Vladimir Solovyov
"In The Burning Bush, Glazov conducts a profoundly original inquiry into Vladimir Solovyov's attitude toward Judaism. Solovyov (1853-1900) was one of the most remarkable figures of the 19th century: He was the most important...
Antisemitism ‘context’ at Harvard costs the school another billionaire donor
Len Blavatnik has joined a “donor revolt” following Harvard University president Claudine Gay's testimony before Congress that it depends on context whether calling for genocide against Jews violates school policy, Bloomberg reported.
Blavatnik, who is Jewish and...
Gadi Haggai, 73, is first US citizen confirmed killed by Hamas as a hostage
An Israeli-American is the first U.S. citizen taken hostage who has died in Hamas captivity in Gaza, a group representing the families of Hamas prisoners announced on Friday.
Gadi Haggai, 73, a U.S.-Israeli dual national,...