Category: Israel

Photo Credit: Twitter screenshot Joan Terrell Paige on twitter Sudhan Thomas, president of the Jersey City Board of Education, emailed members on Wednesday saying he plans to introduce a resolution at their Thursday censuring fellow board member Joan Terrell Paige for an online comment she tweeted about the Dec. 10 murders of two Chassidim and […]

Photo Credit: Noam Chai/Hebrew University Dr. Nicholas Stone It’s been nearly 350 years since Sir Isaac Newton outlined the laws of motion, claiming “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” These laws laid the foundation to understand our solar system and, more broadly, to understand the relationship between a body of mass […]

Photo Credit: Courtesy University of Haifa Stone bowl recovered from the Tel Hreiz dig Researchers Ehud Galili, Jonathan Benjamin, Vered Eshed, Baruch Rosen, John McCarthy, and Liora Kolska Horwitz, from the University of Haifa, Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia, and the Israel Antiquities Authority on Wednesday published the results of their underwater archaeological investigations […]

Photo Credit: IDF A missile from the Israeli Iron Dome, launched during the Operation Pillar of Defense to intercept a missile coming from the Gaza Strip Gaza-based terrorists on Wednesday night fired a rocket at the southern town of Sderot. The rocket was intercepted mid-air by the Iron Dome Aerial Defense System. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press The story of Joseph and his brothers, spread over four parshiyot, is the longest and most tightly-scripted of all the narratives in the Torah. Nothing is there by accident; every detail counts. One moment, however, seems gloriously irrelevant – and it is this that contains one of the most beautiful of the […]

Photo Credit: Haim Zach / GPO Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. {Originally posted to the Gatestone Institute website} All of the major parties represented in the Austrian Parliament have agreed to support a resolution condemning the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement as anti-Semitic. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: […]

Photo Credit: London Metropolitan Police CCTV images of the suspects behind an anti-Semitic attack in north London on Nov. 29, 2019. Two teenagers turned themselves into police on Tuesday and were charged allegedly shouted “kill the Jews” before punching a rabbi last month in an anti-Semitic attack in North London. “Detectives investigating a racially aggravated […]

Photo Credit: Hillel Maeir/TPS MK and former Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat Likud Member of Knesset (MK) and former mayor of Jerusalem Nir Barkat on Wednesday asked US Ambassador David Friedman to promote US sanctions on Turkey, after a report by the British Daily Telegraph revealed that Hamas terrorists in Turkey planned attacks on Israel, including […]

Photo Credit: Nati Shohat/FLASH90‎ Geula Cohen, May 24, 2011. These days it is dangerous to claim that the late Rabbi Meir Kahane was right on a slew of issues – it is certainly political suicide in Israel, where even the most Kahanist party, Otzma Yehudit, is forced to argue feebly that it’s not really pushing […]

Photo Credit: Kobi Richter/TPS Russia’s Rossiya Airlines takes off from Ben Gurion Airport. More than 40 Israelis, including children, were reportedly detained for hours at Domodedovo airport in Moscow, on Wednesday, after Russian authorities delayed their entry to the country for no apparent reason. Their passports were confiscated and they were fingerprinted. Israel’s Ministry of […]