Category: Israel

Photo Credit: Beny Shlevich via Flickr CC Antisemitic graffiti in Klaipeda, Lithuania {Originally posted to the BESA website} Contemporary antisemitic threats are highly fragmented. Organizations and individuals fighting them usually focus on scattered issues, which results in an inefficient effort to combat the overall problem. Priorities need to be identified—targets that are achievable and can […]

Photo Credit: Naale The first time Chaya Ticker, originally from Brooklyn, NY, set foot in Israel, she had the feeling that she’d come home. “Already on my first visit, something resonated deeply,” Ticker said, “I knew I wanted to come back.” No one visits Israel and leaves unchanged, but the cultural and language barriers can […]

Photo Credit: Fox News screen grab Former NY Assembly member Dov Hikind on Fox News President Donald Trump had special praise on Monday for former New York legislator Dov Hikind, founder of the Americans Against Antisemitism organization. The praise went two ways, however: Hikind made it clear in an interview Monday on Fox News that […]

Antisemitism is skyrocketing in the USA and all over the world. Can it be solved, or even quelled? Tamar Yonah speaks with Ron Machol from www.ZachorLegal.org and talks about the efforts being made on ‘the books’ to try to quell this burst of hatred and violence erupting against peaceful and law-abiding Jews all over the world today.Also […]

Photo Credit: Pixabay Light and darkness goes beyond a metaphor for good and evil. Inherent in creation, darkness serves a purpose. Understanding the purpose of darkness enables us to gain deeper meaning to the dark times in our lives. How can we enlighten the darkness in the world and in our lives? How can we […]

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Photo Credit: Yaakov Elharar Chabad of the Dead Sea creates the largest Chanukah Menorah ever seen in the region at the Dead Sea Mall, 2019 Even from the lowest point on earth, Chabad has succeeded in lighting a Chanukah menorah whose light rose higher than anything else in the Dead Sea region this year, kindling […]

Photo Credit: Google Maps Rabbi Rottenberg’s Shul on Monsey, NY Federal prosecutors filed hate crime charges Monday against 37-year-old Grafton Thomas, the man accused of entering the home of Rabbi Chaim Rottenberg in Monsey, New York and attacking his guests with a machete. The rabbi’s son was among the injured. To read the entire complaint […]

Photo Credit: Yehuda Haim/Flash90 Last night was a difficult one for me. I have been very distressed, like many of you, at the ever growing wave of violent antisemitic attacks facing diaspora Jewry in America and around the world. In the past I’ve attempted to refrain from sounding the alarm as such messages are often received […]

Photo Credit: flickr {Originally posted to the Gatestone Institute website} As 2019 ends, the phrase that comes to mind is “what an interesting year!” And, the word “interesting” in this context should be taken in its traditional Chinese meaning, which is full of risks and dangers. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, […]