Category: Israel

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Polemical works generally target intellectual attacks on Judaism. Kenisiyah l’Shem Shamayim, however – which I acquired this week – targets anti-Jewish practices that crept into Jewish society due to ignorance. In the Middle East in the 19th century – in Syria especially – rabbis sensed that the masses had been deleteriously […]

Photo Credit: WikiCommons Picture taken in October 2009 of the Sabra & Shatila Massacre Memorial in Sabra, South Beirut During the Lebanese civil war, 13 massacres were perpetrated: Bus massacre (Beirut) – April 13, 1975, 300 deaths, perpetrated by the Phalange: 27 PLO armed members travelling in a bus in the Ain el Rummaneh area […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press “I have an extra, unused ticket,” Eli said one morning to his friend Chaim as they were about to board the LIRR. “Are you interested in buying it for the way home?” “Sure, thank you,” said Chaim. “It will save me time at the station.” Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: […]

Photo Credit: Abed Rahim Khatib / Flash 90 Iranian-backed Hamas-led rioters seen during clashes with Israeli soldiers on the Israel-Gaza border, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. (archive) Israeli soldiers once again faced stone-throwers, sound bombs, burning tires and other threats this past Friday (Dec 20) as Gaza rioters attempted to breach the […]

Photo Credit: Courtesy of the family Dr. Sarah Halimi (HY”d) European Jews were “shocked and outraged” this weekend when the Paris Court of Appeals decided that the raving Muslim neighbor who murdered Jewish physician Sarah Halimi was not criminally responsible for his actions. Kobil Traoré attacked Halimi, 60, at her home in Paris on April […]

Photo Credit: Wikimedia / UK Government The British Parliament is finally on its way to “getting Brexit done.” The legislative body this past Friday approved the Brexit deal presented by Prime Minister Boris Johnson in a vote of 358-234 on Johnson’s Withdrawal Agreement Bill. Johnson’s Conservative Party winning a landslide victory in last week’s elections […]

Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has expressed his country’s opposition to the International Criminal Court’s announcement it will investigate alleged “war crimes” by Israel against the so-called “State of Palestine.” “The United States is “firmly” opposed to an International Criminal Court probe […]

Photo Credit: Tomer Neuberg / Flash 90 Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit (L) and Justice Minister Amir Ohana, September 03, 2019. Chief State Attorney nominee Orly Ben Ari called Justice Minister Amir Ohana after the close of the Sabbath on Saturday night to inform him of her decision to withdraw her application and resign her new […]

Photo Credit: Stine Merethe Eid via Wikimedia ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, on Friday issued a statement saying: “In brief, I am satisfied that (i) war crimes have been or are being committed in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip; (ii) potential cases arising […]

Photo Credit: Ari Fuld Ari Fuld’s Chanukiah This article about Chanukah has been adapted from the video of Ari Fuld’s Grill and Torah D’var Torah that he gave on Friday, Dec. 23, 2016 https://arifuld.org/2019/12/19/the-real-miracle-of-chanukah-5777/ Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 0 }); I want to talk to […]