Category: Israel

Photo Credit: Pixabay / Geralt illustrative only In the town of Cary, North Carolina, a court has been faced with the challenge of parsing out the difference between mental illness and anti-Semitism, in the most difficult circumstances possible: when the defendant is the child of a colleague. William Josephus Warden, 21, is the son of […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Rav Avraham Gershon of Kitov was a scholar in the beis medrash of Brodi. This modest and unassuming man possessed such wondrous qualities that the great Nodah B’Yehudah, in a responsum, referred to him, in part, as follows: “The complete and all-encompassing scholar, the hallowed pious one, light of Israel, the […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press If you live in Brooklyn or anywhere in New York City, you have been experiencing a strangely warm winter so far. But that doesn’t mean that things won’t take a turn as winter is only just getting started. So let’s prepare with some essential winter accessories! Snow BootsMy old snow boots […]

Photo Credit: Ziv Koren Four survivors of Auschwitz. Samuel (far right) was Eichmann’s prison guard at his trial in Israel. Israel is poised to unveil a photo exhibition at United Nations headquarters in New York on the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day that features Holocaust survivors from Israel and around the world. Israel’s ambassador […]

Photo Credit: Kobi Gideon / GPO Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez in Jerusalem on Oct. 29, 2015. The Honduran government has formally declared the Iranian proxy group Hezbollah a terrorist organization, Reuters reported Monday. “We declare Hezbollah a terrorist organization and will include it in the registry of persons […]

Photo Credit: IDF Spokesperson’s Unit. These are the first female tank operators, photographed on December 5, 2017. Some of them have filed the petition against the IDF for chucking their program. The state on Monday filed with the High Court of Justice its response to petitions against the IDF, the chief of staff and the […]

Photo Credit: Kobi Gideon/GPO Jordan’s King Abdullah (left) meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 2014. Jordan’s parliament on Sunday approved a draft law banning the import of Israeli natural gas. The motion was passed unanimously by all 130 lawmakers, but legal obstacles may prevent it from coming into force, Reuters reported. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: […]

Photo Credit: Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay Elevated activity in areas of the brain associated with attentional control just before events increases the probability that we will remember the event. This finding emerged from a new international study undertaken at the University of Haifa in cooperation with the Weizmann Institute and the Universities of […]

Photo Credit: Majdi Fathi/TPS Hamas Hamas’ security forces have established a new military checkpoint in the proximity of the new soon to be opened international-sponsored hospital in the northern Gaza Strip. The new checkpoint established Sunday is situated near an already active checkpoint that monitors all residents and delegations entering into the Strip. Advertisement ‘); […]

Photo Credit: Courtesy Kan 11 News The Secret river There is a river in Israel nobody knew existed, until Sunday night, that is, when Kan 11 News exposed it to the world. To start, it’s nice to know that in a world surrounded by satellites that take pictures of everything all the time, this great […]