Category: Israel

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 […]

Photo Credit: Ministry of Defense Iron Dome A spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces said Wednesday night that additional Iron Dome aerial defense system batteries have been deployed across southern Israel in light of the increased threat facing the region. 4 Rockets Fired at Israel, 2 Intercepted by Iron Dome Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, […]

Photo Credit: Razurdia / Wikimedia Guatemala President Alejandro Giammattei Guatemala’s new president, Alejandro Giammattei 63, announced on Tuesday during his inauguration that his nation will declare Hezbollah to be a terrorist organization, adding that it is an Iranian proxy that seeks to destroy Israel. Giammattei also told Israel’s Science and Technology Minister Ofir Akunis, who […]

Photo Credit: wikimedia Sharpton and cronies marching on Crown Heights I felt compelled to attend a conversation on anti-Semitism that Rabbi Shmuley Boteach was hosting Monday night because I still don’t understand the sudden eruption of black Jew hatred in the tri-state area. I was hoping Rabbi Boteach could offer the fresh insights for which […]

Photo Credit: IDF The IAF’s Hermes 900, UAV, a.k.a. Kochav (Star). Israeli forces attacked terrorist targets in Gaza Wednesday night in retaliation for a barrage of rocket fire that was aimed at southern Israel earlier in the day by terrorists in the enclave. 4 Rockets Fired at Israel, 2 Intercepted by Iron Dome Advertisement ‘); […]

Photo Credit: IDF The front window was shattered by the explosion of the IED attached to the terror balloon sent from Gaza. At least three balloons bearing improvised explosive devices tied to them landed Wednesday night in the southern Israeli city of Sderot. Security personnel summoned Israel Police sappers to the various locations in the […]

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