Category: Israel

Photo Credit: Jewish Press In 1964, Kitty Genovese was stabbed and killed in Kew Gardens, Queens. The New York Times reported that 38 witnesses saw or heard the attack, and nobody did anything to help. This article (which was later shown to be exaggerated) motivated social psychologists John M. Darley and Bibb Latané to attempt […]

Photo Credit: Sliman Khader/Flash90 A group of religious Jews on the Temple Mount. Hamas is calling for mass prayer rallies on Friday at the Al-Aqsa mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, and in the Cave of the (Jewish) Patriarchs in Hebron (Maarat Hamachpelah) and other mosques in Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip […]

Photo Credit: Esty Dziubov/TPS Heba Yazbak of the Raam Balad faction of the Joint (Arab) List Ron Keren, brother of terror victim Danny Haran who was murdered by Samir Kuntar in a 1979 terrorist attack, has called on the Attorney General to disqualify Israeli-Arab Member of Knesset (MK) Heba Yazbak from running in the upcoming […]

Photo Credit: PMO / Twitter Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at IDF officers’ graduation at Base #1 The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation is hosting on Thursday in Tel Aviv an event for the Mesarvot organization which promotes and supports inductees’ refusal to be recruited by the IDF. The conference will feature a number of recruits who […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Many people speculate about the arrival of self-driving cars, but the future of self-driving trucks is arguably even more important. Long-haul trucking is still at the heart of the economy with people driving long hours on monotonous highways to ensure that products and packages are delivered in a timely manner. The […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Two booklets I came across this week are from a distant land in what feels like a different world. They were published in 1958 and 1963, respectively, by the Sha’are Shalom Synagogue in Salisbury, Rhodesia, the colonial name for what is now Harare, Zimbabwe. Salisbury found itself home to an unlikely […]

Photo Credit: Department of Homeland Security. Michael Masters, CEO and national director of the Secure Community Network, the security arms of the Jewish Federation of North America and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, addresses community leaders and homeland security officials at the Tabletop Exercise in April 2019. As synagogues nationwide debate […]

Photo Credit: Google Maps The communities of Chamonaim and Ganei-Modi’in, north-east of the Shilat junction and Modi’in, have been on a security lock-down since approximately 5:30AM on Thursday. Three figures were seen running through the town carrying knapsacks in the early hours of the morning, and the IDF and security forces were called out to […]

Photo Credit: unsplash President Trump’s execution of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani has renewed the endless canard that neoconservatives are trying to push the United States into war with Iran to help Israel. The mythology about the “neocon” obsession with helping Israel is growing tiresome, not least because it has an offensive, anti-Semitic undertone, implying as […]