Category: Israel

Photo Credit: Jewish Press This week Moses ascends the world stage. Exactly when the party lists for the next election to the Knesset are being finalized, we are given a leadership workshop courtesy of the weekly parshah: A leader can grow up in the house of Pharaoh as “the prince of Egypt” but still not […]

Photo Credit: Rockland County DA Grafton Thomas Grafton Thomas, the African American man accused of stabbing five people, one critically, at a Chanukah Melave Malka gathering in Monsey, NY, on Thursday pleaded not guilty in Rockland County Court to attempted murder and several other charges. Last Monday, Thomas pleaded not guilty to federal hate crime […]

Photo Credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90 A new Kan 11 poll released Thursday night revealed that Blue&White is opening a gap in the race with 36 seats, compared with Likud’s 31 seats. It means that, for the first time in a decade, Benjamin Netanyahu might not be the first party leader approached by the president to put […]

Photo Credit: WikiCommon Qassem Soleimani delivering speech to IRGC commanders’ conference {Originally posted to the BESA website} In 2001, President George Bush launched the Global War on Terror doctrine, articulated in his “overcome darkness with the light of hope” speech at the UN. His successor, Barack Obama, took a different approach to the fight against […]

Photo Credit: Mila Aviv / Flash 90 Israel Defense Forces attacked terrorist targets in Gaza late Thursday night in response to the return of incendiary balloons carrying homemade bombs into Israeli territory, launched by terrorists from Gaza during the day. “A short time ago, an IDF combat helicopter attacked an infrastructure used for underground activity […]

Photo Credit: U.S. Air Force photo by 1st Lt. Erik D. Anthony Two Israeli F-35 Adirs fly in formation The Israeli Air Force has just opened a new fighter jet squadron for the F-35i “Adir” (Mighty!) Lightning II Stealth Fighter Jet. The aircraft travels at 1,200 miles per hour, and can take out threats without […]

Photo Credit: Mohammad Hassanzadeh President Hassan Rouhani Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani crowed in a televised speech on Thursday that his country is galloping ahead with its nuclear development program even faster than it was prior to the signing of the 2015 JCPOA nuclear deal with world powers. “We are enriching more uranium than before the […]

Photo Credit: #WeWantNaama on Facebook Naama Issachar Sometimes sad stories do have happy endings – and if a report in Russian-language media this Thursday turns out to be true, Israelis will be sharing the joy of Naama Issachar’s family sometime next week. Informed sources in government agencies in the Russian Federation allegedly told the Kommersant […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press “Please my L-rd, send through whomever You will send!” (Shemos 4:13). The Baal Chemdas Shlomo, a rav in Warsaw, was extremely devoted to the Chiddushei HaRim (1799-1866), who related a statement of his rebbe, R’ Simcha Bunim of Peshischa. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Question: Should the congregation say “Amen” after the berachah of “habocher b’amo Yisrael b’ahavah” (right before Shema)? I have seen different shuls do different things. M. Goldman Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, secure: true }); Answer: We noted that the congregation shouldn’t say […]