Category: Israel

Photo Credit: Nati Shohat / Flash 90 President Trump prays at the Kotel. May 22, 2017 By Mark Newman Anyone who even casually knows the Hebrew Bible (Tanach) has heard of Shmuel the Prophet. He accomplished many great things of which two were anointing Shaul (Saul) of the tribe of Binyamin (Benjamin) the first king […]

Photo Credit: screenshot Damage and a frightened Jewish community on edge after a shooting at the JC Kosher Supermarket in Jersey City, N.J., on Dec., 10, 2019. {Originally posted to the JNS website} A quickly deleted tweet summed up everything that is wrong about the discussion of anti-Semitism in 2019 America. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: […]

Photo Credit: Asher Schwartz {Originally posted to the author’s website} Every Jew is aware that antisemitism is again on the rise around the world. Today’s wave of antisemitic expression and violence is particularly alarming because of a series of disturbing trends, as follows: Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: […]

Photo Credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90 Police block a group of Jewish boys from entering the Temple Mount, August 11, 2019. The Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court on Sunday opened the trial of three young Jews, two of whom are enlisted IDF soldiers, who had been arrested last summer on the Temple Mount and charged with conduct that could […]

Photo Credit: Kobi Richter/TPS The Reading Power Station. The Israeli Electricity Authority (IEA) announced on Monday that it will accept a $500 million settlement from Egyptian gas companies for halting deliveries of natural gas between 2011 and 2013. The settlement, which was reached in June and now ratified by the IEA, significantly reduces the $1.76 […]

Photo Credit: Roni Schutzer/Flash 90 Israel Electric Company worker The Israel Electric Company (IEC) has stepped up its actions against the Palestinian Authority (PA) and has cut power to various areas in the PA for three hours over the PA’s unpaid bills. The IEC limited the power to Ramallah on Sunday as a step to […]

Photo Credit: Haim Zach/GPO Prime Minister Boris Johnson welcomes Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside 10 Downing Street, September 5, 2019. {Originally posted to the JNS website} The relief was overwhelming. When the exit polls on Thursday evening correctly predicted a large majority for Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party, British Jews allowed themselves to breathe again. Overcome […]

Photo Credit: Avigdor Liberman’s Facebook Avigdor Liberman’s mockery of Benny Gantz’s ‘secular’ government, Dec. 16, 2018. Israel Beiteinu chairman Avigdor Liberman on Monday morning put on a political pundit’s hat and declared over his Facebook page that Blue&White and the two Haredi parties, Shas and United Torah Judaism, have already agreed to partner in forming […]

Photo Credit: Pixabay {Reposted from the JNS website} The past week clarified a lot of things about the state of the American Jewish community—and its antagonists. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 0 }); The two assailants who walked into the kosher supermarket in Jersey City on […]

Photo Credit: CCTV footage, screen grab via Twitter / Christian @Lafvnte Domestic terrorists targeting Jews in JC Kosher Supermarket in Jersey City, New Jersey on Dec. 10, 2019 A New Jersey man has been arrested after a direct connection has been established to two shooters who last week killed a top detective on the city’s […]