Category: Israel

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Only partially tongue-in-cheek do I assert that Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia was (aptly) named after the airport in Queens. (One of the many reforms that he brought to the City was in the realm of transportation.) LaGuardia’s tenure as three-term mayor of New York City was so famous – totally dwarfing his […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press If you want to understand what a book is about, look carefully at how it ends. Genesis ends with three deeply significant scenes. First, Jacob blesses his grandsons, Ephraim and Manasseh. This is the blessing that Jewish parents use on Friday night to bless their sons. My predecessor L-rd Jacobovits used […]

Photo Credit: Starrfruit / Wikipedia Seal of the New York State Assembly, the lower house of NY state’s legislature. Just days after the start of 2020, New York Democratic Assemblyman Simcha Eichenstein is pushing for changes to the state’s new bail-reform law, which allows for people charged with certain crimes to be released from jail […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press For the past two years I have been going to school to achieve a license to teach. Throughout this time, I have faced many challenges and many exams to make sure that I would be properly qualified to teach, and I passed all of them. I am almost 50 years old […]

Photo Credit: Noam Revkin / Flash 90 New Israeli Shekels and a Bitcoin Israel’s foreign exchange reserves at the end of December 2019 stood at a record $126 billion, an increase of $3.64 billion from their level at the end of November, a report by the Bank of Israel said. The reserves represent 32.8% of […]

Photo Credit: IDF Spokesperson’s Office The Trophy System creates a protective dome which shields tanks from anti-tank missiles. Israel continues to be a world leader and innovator in the weapons industry.  Forbes lists three Israeli inventions among “the 12 most important new weapons of the decade.” During the 2010s, warfare was transformed according to Forbes […]

Photo Credit: Noam Flakasa/TPS Nahariya A man drowned and died in flooding caused by torrential rains in the northern city of Nahariya on Wednesday while he was trying to help a mother and child. The man, said to be 38 years old, was swept away in his car by the floods and was found later […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Joseph Trumpeldor (1880-1920) is known for his efforts in forming a Jewish military force to liberate and defend Eretz Yisrael and for founding the Zion Mule Corps and the Jewish Legion, but he is probably best known for his legendary defense of Tel Chai when he uttered the immortal dying words, […]

Photo Credit: Kohelet Policy Forum / YouTube screengrab US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo addresses the 2020 Kohelet Conference in Jerusalem via satellite U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday that the United States is “disavowing” the 1978 Hansell Memorandum, a State Department memo that claimed Israeli settlements violate international law. Advertisement ‘); […]

Photo Credit: TPS Defense Minister Naftali Bennett speaking to Kohelet Conference 2020 in Jerusalem Israel has launched a campaign to reclaim land in Judea and Samaria that is under full Israeli control and which the Arabs are trying to take control of through illegal construction, Defense Minister Naftali Bennet declared. Speaking at the Kohelet Forum […]