Category: Israel

Photo Credit: Courtesy Bar Ilan University Prof. Yossi Mandel Macular degeneration (AMD) causes blindness in millions of people in the Western world. It is the most common cause of severe vision loss in the Western world among those aged 50 and over, and its prevalence increases with age. Though there is no cure for AMD, […]

Photo Credit: Issam Rimawi/FLASH90 A PA Arab resident casts his vote in the October 20, 2012 municipal elections. On Thursday, Palestinian Authority spokesman Nabil Abu Rudainah denounced calls on Chairman Mahmoud Abbas to finally issue a decree on holding legislative and presidential elections, regardless of whether Israel would allow Arab residents of eastern Jerusalem to […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press During a holiday on which we light candles, too many candles have been extinguished. Four bus passengers traveling on line 947 to Haifa, and two more in Ramat Gan, were killed within a 24-hour period. Yesterday, I read about two of these lights that went out. Yosef Kahalani, a pensioner who […]

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Photo Credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 Gideon Sa’ar braves the storm to cast his vote in the Likud party leadership primary, December 26, 2019. In the end, it was no contest at all. Yes, there were complaints about Likud Center doing the kind of shenanigans any incumbent’s apparatus does against the challenger: Likud members discovering that their […]

Photo Credit: wikimedia Joseph Converses with Judah, His Brother Parshas Mikeitz always falls out around Chanukah, and Chazal explain that this is not coincidental. In explanation of this phenomenon, the commentaries discuss how Yosef is connected to Chanukah, and how he symbolizes our victory over the Greeks. This begs the obvious question as to what […]

Photo Credit: Courtesy Hanukiyah created by world famous Venetian Glass Blower Maestro Gianni Toso During Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan’s 2010 confirmation hearing, Senator Lindsey Graham paused to ask Kagan where she had spent the previous Christmas. Without missing a beat, she replied: “You know, like all Jews, I was probably at a Chinese restaurant.” Although […]

Photo Credit: Gideon Markowicz/Flas90 Benjamin Netanyahu and Gideon Sa’ar, January 10, 2013. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu won the Likud party primaries hands down on Thursday, December 26, 2019. Netanyahu received 72.5% (41,792) of the votes, while his opponent, Gidon Sa’ar, received 27.5% (15,885). Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: […]

Photo Credit: Mordechai Lightstone via Twitter Anti-Semitic post-it note found at Brooklyn Jewish Children’s Museum in Crown Heights, May 30 2019 Considering the numerous reports of anti-Semitic attacks both here and in Europe, I was somewhat dismayed recently to read several articles that either implicitly or explicitly blamed Jews for the crimes committed against them. […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press One of the main mitzvos of Chanukah is publicizing the great miracle Hashem performed for our forefathers. But what makes this miracle different from the many other miracles we’ve experienced throughout the generations? Our very existence as Jews is a miracle. The walls of Yericho sank into the ground. The mighty […]