Daily Archives: January 23, 2024
One author, three books
Take one author,(Matania Ginosar), read his three books, and you'll get a clear perspective on the transformation of a terrorist group into an official part of the government of Israel from the perspective of...
Verter fun der Vokh – Tu BiShvat
Tu BiShvat: דער חמישה־עשׂר(־בשבֿט); דער ט״ו בשבֿט
New year of the trees: דאָס נײַ֜יאָר פֿון די ביי֜מער; דער ראש־השנה־לאילנות
seven species: זיבן מי֜נים
wheat: דער ווייץ
barley: (דער גערשט, ־ן; פּע֜רלגרויפּן (ל״ר
grape: די (ווײַ֜נ)טרויב, ־ן; דאָס טרײַ֜בעלע, ־ך
fig:...
Samaritan’s Purse replaces 14 MDA ambulances lost on Oct. 7
Just months after 14 Magen David Adom ambulances were destroyed during Hamas's Oct. 7 invasion of southern Israel, replacement vehicles donated by Samaritan’s Purse were dedicated on Tuesday in a ceremony in Jerusalem.
The ceremony...
Hamas denies it slaughtered civilians on Oct. 7
Hamas on Sunday released a statement denying its members committed atrocities on Oct. 7.
The denial is a complete reversal for the terrorist group and a total disavowal of its own footage, after it supplied...
Defeat campus antisemitism with education
What can be done to combat and defeat antisemitism on North American college campuses? It is daunting to come up with a concrete plan for doing so, especially when antisemitism is surging amid the...
Knesset caucus hears testimony on Hamas’s brutal sexual violence
“There will be some difficult things to digest here, so take a deep breath.”
The Knesset Caucus for Female Victims of Sexual and Gender Violence in the Swords of Iron War opened Tuesday’s meeting with...
Biden threatens Netanyahu’s drive to destroy Hamas
The deepening antipathy of the Biden administration toward Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is threatening to derail Israel's military offensive to destroy Hamas.
With every day that the Israel Defense Forces maintains its effort to...
American-Israeli father says US abandoned his terror-victim son
A 16-year-old dual American-Israeli citizen wounded on Jan. 15 in a Palestinian terrorist attack in Ra’anana while waiting at the bus stop outside his school has been abandoned by the United States, according to the victim's...
EU threatens ‘consequences’ for Israel’s opposition to Palestinian state
E.U. diplomats said on Monday in Brussels that a two-state solution is the only credible path to peace between Israel and the Palestinians, after earlier threatening "consequences" if Israel continued to oppose the plan.
“We...
US Lebanon diplomacy ‘a fool’s errand’ but still ‘has value’
It was Oct. 12, 2022, and U.S. special envoy Amos Hochstein had just wrapped up a maritime border and natural gas agreement between Israel and Lebanon.
Hochstein tweeted that he was proud to have served...