Category: Israel

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’, […]

Photo Credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90 [This article was first published at WIBC] After the most recent attack on Jews, this time while they were celebrating Hanukkah, I realized that as a radio host and vocal proponent of Jews being armed that I had made a terrible mistake. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, […]

Photo Credit: Flash 90 Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud “Abu Mazen” Abbas European officials have recently sent messages to Palestinian Authority (PA) head Mahmoud Abbas’ office demanding that he first publish an election decree and publicize the date for the elections before they intervene and pressure Israel into allowing the PA to hold the elections in […]

Photo Credit: David Cohen/Flash90 Health Minister Yaakov Litzman. The Zionist Federation of Australia attacked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s move to promote Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman to Health Minister on Sunday. In an open letter, Australia’s Zionist Federation president Jeremy Leibler warned Netanyahu that the appointment is “a slap in the face to the Australian […]

Photo Credit: Mark Neyman (GPO) President Rivlin with Christian leaders, December 30, 2019. President Reuven Rivlin on Monday, December 30, held the traditional reception for the heads of the Christian denominations in Israel to celebrate the new year at the Presidential Residence in Jerusalem, and used the occasion to invite the Pope to visit and […]

Photo Credit: YouTube screenshot Ramat Gan council’s vote on the 2020 budget More than six months after Ramat Gan Mayor Carmel Shama Ha’Cohen (Likud) approved free city buses on Shabbat, on Sunday the Ramat Gan city council approved the budget to run the project for the coming year as well. The vote was part of […]

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. […]