Author: Mark Hershlag

[embedded content] The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (CCA) on Friday halted the execution of Jewish inmate Randy Ethan Halprin, 42, scheduled for this Thursday, over his claim that the judge in his trial was “a racist and anti-Semitic bigot.” Halprin was one of the “Texas 7,” a group of prisoners who escaped from the […]

Photo Credit: Boris Niehaus via Wikipedia Antisemitic, pro-Palestinian demonstration in Berlin, July 17, 2014, {Originally posted to the BESA website} For years, experts viewed Malmö, Sweden’s third-largest city, as the capital of antisemitism in Europe. Incidents of anti-Jewish hatred occurred there on a regular basis. Mayor Ilmar Reepalu, a former socialist, was an antisemite. A […]

Photo Credit: David Cohen/FLASH90 Israeli Arabs protest against recent violence in the Arab town of Majd al-Krum in northern Israel, October 03, 2019. Over the past week, senior police officials and Minister of Public Security, Strategic Affairs and Minister of Information Gilad Erdan (Likud) have explained that much has been done to eradicate crime in […]

Photo Credit: Photo: YouTube/Screenshot. Israeli judoka and Olympic Bronze medalist, Ori Sasson’s handshake being rebuffed by Egyptian rival at the Olympics. {Originally posted to the Gatestone Institute website} Arabs who dare to greet Jews in public on the Jewish New Year are being denounced by their fellow Arabs as traitors. Arabs who dare to engage […]

Photo Credit: Wikimedia / tian2992 from Guatemala Berlin’s Neue Synagogue (New Synagogue) Security personnel guarding the entrance to the Neue Synagogue in central Berlin prevented a major tragedy Friday night, pepper-spraying and then disarming a terrorist with a knife who tried to run into the Jewish house of worship. The guards overpowered the attacker, confiscated […]

Photo Credit: Tomer Neuberg / Flash 90 Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz The State of Israel is reportedly working together with Gulf states on the development of a “non-aggression pact” between them, according to a report broadcast Saturday night by Israel’s Channel 12 television news. If it goes through, the potentially historic agreement – initiated by […]

Photo Credit: pixabay In this show, your hosts share some season’s greetings from various world leaders to the Jewish People on Rosh HaShanah. They discuss a not-so-good review of a secret burger place in Tel Aviv. The good and bad side of marriage is in the news this week from Israel, and the Hula Valley […]

Photo Credit: pixabay So much to do and so little time! Is Yom Kippur a time of bleakness and fear or rife with expectation and happiness? ‘Confession’ and ‘intention’ are the themes we explore, correlating the death of Moshe with Day of Judgement. Advertisement <!– Publisher #16: JewishPress.com Zone #113: Comment Banner / (02) / […]

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