Photo Credit: Jewish Press Why Avraham? That is the question that haunts us when we read the opening of this week’s parsha. Here is the key figure in the story of our faith, the father of our nation, the hero of monotheism, held holy not only by Jews but by Christians and Muslims also. Yet […]
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Photo Credit: Screenshot Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah . With its recent clash with Israel, Hezbollah is again in the news. But for all of the attention Hezbollah gets, there are still elements of its history that remain ignored — or just misrepresented. Tony Badran, a research fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies […]
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Photo Credit: Jewish Press All my life, I’ve seen the photos of gyro hanging in bodegas and other non-kosher delis, and wondered how it tasted. Was it the same thing as shawarma? Now halfway into my lifetime, that wish was finally granted at Bridge: Turkish & Mediterranean Grill, and exceeded my expectations. Of course this […]
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British report: Iran has ‘military advantage over US and allies in Middle East’ A 217-page study, compiled by the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, states that Iran’s influence in the Middle East grows despite US sanctions Iran’s influence in the Middle East has been significantly strengthened despite US sanctions, according to a study […]
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Saudi Arabia officially announced that it was going ahead with the widely anticipated IPO of state oil company Saudi Aramco Sunday. The company is not only thought to be the world’s most profitable (at least among publicly listed companies and those preparing to be listed), its IPO could also prove to be the biggest the […]
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Join the co-founders of Justice for Kurds (JFK), Bernard-Henri Lévy and Thomas S. Kaplan, for an important conversation on genocide … past, present, and future. With Turkey’s assault on the Syrian Kurds raising the specter of ethnic cleansing, and Iran threatening to annihilate Israel, Kaplan and Lévy will cut to the most real and urgent questions: Is […]
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Photo Credit: vDoD photo by D. Myles Cullen Released An Israeli soldier looks over the Syrian and Jordanian borders from the Golan Heights, Israel, {Originally posted to the BESA website} Whichever Israeli government ends up coming to power will be faced with a set of urgent security challenges that are coming from a range of […]
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Photo Credit: Kobi Gideon / GPO Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Science and Technology Minister Ofir Akunis host the Israeli robotics team that participated in the First Global Challenge robotics Olympiad in Dubai, Nov. 6, 2019. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Science and Technology Minister Ofir Akunis welcomed the Israeli robotics […]
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Photo Credit: YouTube screen grab UNRWA Commissioner-General Pierre Krähenbühl, August 2019 UNRWA Commissioner General Pierre Krahenbuhl has resigned from his post, effective immediately, United Nations spokesperson Stephane Dujarric announced Wednesday at a news briefing. Krahenbuhl was placed on administrative leave while an internal probe was taking place to investigate “credible and corroborated” allegations of serious […]
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Photo Credit: The Brit Olam World Noahide Center A group of Bnei Noach from Taiwan visit Rabbi Sherki (fifth from right) at the Brit Olam center in Jerusalem. Two weeks ago, with the approach of Parshat Noach, the Brit Olam World Noahide Center, founded in 2011, announced the completion of a Shulchan Aruch for Bnei […]
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