Category: Israel

Photo Credit: courtesy, Regavim Palestinian Authority builds illegal school with European Union funding in Nahal Machoch Nature Reserve on Israeli state land, Nov 19 2019 Defense Minister Naftali Bennett on Thursday appointed Kobi Eliraz to head Israel’s campaign against illegal Arab construction in Area C in Judea and Samaria and head off the Palestinian Authority’s […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press The Gemara in the beginning of Avoda Zara describes a peculiar conversation that will take place in the end of days. Hashem will bring a Torah scroll and say whomever occupied himself with the Torah shall come and take his reward. Immediately, the nations of the world will gather in disarray. […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Vol. LXX No. 2                                   5780 New York CityCANDLE LIGHTING TIMEJan. 10, 2020 – 13 Teves 57804:29 p.m. NYC E.S.T. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 0 }); Sabbath Ends: 5:34 p.m. NYC E.S.T.Sabbath Ends: Rabbenu Tam 6:01 p.m. NYC E.S.T.Weekly Reading: Va’yechiWeekly Haftara: […]

Photo Credit: Tzvika Tzuk, Israel Nature and Parks Authority The Yarkon river / Tzvika Tzuk, Israel Nature and Parks Authority The weather in Israel on Thursday is rainy from the north of the country to the northern Negev. The flooded mill at the source of the Yarkon river / Yonatan Selevsky, Israel Nature and Parks […]

Photo Credit: Free images from Wikimedia Jeremy Corbyn / Qasem Soleimani Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn on Wednesday told Sky News that Qasem Soleimani’s assassination by the United States was “illegal under any law.” In a speech at the House of Commons, Corbyn said the US must not violate laws if it wants other countries to […]

Photo Credit: Facebook pages of Pelosi and Trump House Speaker Nancy Pelosi vs. President Donald Trump House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is planning a vote on Thursday to force President Donald Trump to withdraw plans to attack Iran unless he receives explicit authorization from Congress. This show of force on the part of the speaker follows […]

Photo Credit: TPS Car sunk in water at a flooded street in Nahariyya following heavy showers and stormy weather. Jan 5, 2020. Extremely stormy weather hit Israel on Wednesday, causing deadly floods and significant damage to infrastructure and property, the latest winter wave to hit the country in the past week. Several coastal cities experienced […]

Photo Credit: Screenshot from LBC radio on YouTube Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick on LBC radio Scotland Yard Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick on Wednesday announced that six individuals, five of them Labour party supporters, had been arrested or interviewed with a warning following an investigation of their Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism on social media. According to […]

Photo Credit: Kobi Gideon / GPO U.S. President Donald Trump with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, May 23, 2017. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke by phone on Wednesday with President Donald Trump after Iran bombed a US airbase of Ain al-Assad in Iraq in response to the US’ assassination of Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) […]

Photo Credit: Hossam el-Hamalawy via Flickr New research released Wednesday by AMCHA Initiative provides the first empirical evidence showing that faculty who support academic BDS are actively promoting this political agenda directly to students in their classrooms. The study (Bringing BDS into the Classroom), which examined 50 syllabi at 40 public and private colleges and […]