Category: Israel

Photo Credit: YouTube screenshot Children polishing Stolpersteine in Berlin. Gunter Demnig, a German artist best known for his Stolperstein (stumbling stone) memorials to the victims of Nazi persecution, on Sunday installed his 75,000th Stolperstein in Memmingen, Bavaria, in memory of Benno and Martha Rosenbaum, who were persecuted under the Nazi regime, the Stolperstein Society announced. […]

Photo Credit: Copyright-free images Mahmoud Abbas (R) and Ismail Haniyeh {Originally posted to the Gatestone Institute website} Palestinian Authority leaders are upset: a survey published on December 11 by Transparency International, a global organization that “gives voice to the victims and witnesses of corruption,” found that corruption is increasing in the PA and in five […]

Photo Credit: Teaneck Police Twitter account Teaneck, NJ cops The Associated Press reported on Sunday that the Saturday night machete stabbing attack on a Rabbi’s home in Monsey, NY, has led New Jersey towns with a large Jewish presence to increase their police forces’ alertness to potential anti-Semitic attacks. Teaneck’s Police Chief Glenn O’Reilly announced […]

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Photo Credit: Google Maps Rabbi Rottenberg’s Shul on Monsey, NY The Embassy of the United Arab Emirates in Washington DC has condemned the anti-Semitic machete attack that took place Saturday night at the home of a Chassidic rabbi in Monsey, New York. “We condemn the attack at a Hanukkah celebration in NY last night,” the […]

Photo Credit: Fox News screen grab / via Facebook live news briefing NY Gov Andrew Cuomo speaks with reporters outside Rabbi’s home where machete attack took place after the Sabbath, Dec. 28 2019 Jewish lawmakers are calling on Governor Andrew Cuomo to declare a state of emergency in New York, following the machete terror attack […]

Photo Credit: Tech. Sgt. Mike, PD-USAF A USAF KC-135E Stratotanker refuels an F-16C Fighting Falcon in mid-air. US military forces struck five Hezbollah targets Sunday in retaliation for an attack Friday on an Iraqi coalition base that killed one US civilian. Pentagon spokesperson Jonathan Hoffman said the locations – three in Iraq and two in […]

Photo Credit: CST A fence with anti-Israeli graffiti in London in 2014. Antisemitic symbols were spray-painted along with the numbers “911” in nine different locations on Jewish shops, on bus stops and other venues around Hampstead in London this weekend. Jewish shop owners – including Oddbins and Esclot London, as well as a former café […]

Photo Credit: Fox News screen grab / via Facebook live news briefing NY Gov Andrew Cuomo speaks with reporters outside Rabbi’s home where machete attack took place after the Sabbath, Dec. 28 2019 A suspect has been taken into custody and charged in the machete attack at a Melave Malka Chanukah celebration at around 10:30 […]

Photo Credit: Courtesy NYC Mayor’s Office Mayor Bill de Blasio meets the Crown Heights Jewish community, Friday, Dec. 27, 2019. The Guardian Angels private crime prevention group have begun patrolling Brooklyn’s Jewish neighborhoods to provide “visual deterrence” following an ongoing rise in the number of anti-Semitic attacks against the city’s Jews. Curtis Sliwa, who founded […]