Category: Israel

In nature social living is strongly connected to the ability to communicate with others. Maintaining social ties and coordinating with group mates require frequent communication. Therefore, complex social systems are usually associated with well-developed communication abilities. The apex of communication complexity is undoubtedly human language. However, intensive and informationally rich communication comes at a cost […]

BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,361, December 2, 2019 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The time has come for Israel to stop willfully ignoring the phenomenon of Holocaust denial in the Arab world and start fighting it. Dialogue and rapprochement cannot possibly start from a position of antisemitism and Holocaust denial. In Israel as well as in several […]

The concept of the “Wandering Jew” derives from a popular literary legend about a Jew who, after mocking the Christian savior en route to being crucified on the cross, was condemned thereafter to a life of wandering the earth until Judgment Day. The story of this wanderer was first recorded in the chronicles of Roger […]

A Jewish-Canadian student at Montreal’s McGill University has been told to cancel a planned trip to Israel or to resign from her role in the Student Society of McGill University. Jordyn Wright has refused to do either, risking impeachment once she returns from the Hillel-sponsored trip. The “Face to Face” trip aims to foster a […]

Photo Credit: courtesy Doug Goldstein It is possible to achieve financial freedom after a string of failures. Nearly every successful entrepreneur and investor has a “failure story” to tell. John Lee Dumas, host of the Entrepreneur on Fire podcast, explains the difference between using failure to make a comeback and giving into despair. Learn how […]

[embedded content] Not wishing to be excessively nasty, but I could name several Nuremberg defendants who had an easier time apologizing for their anti-Semitism than Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. He finally did say the A word, but, goodness, it was like pulling the teeth of a Yeti you met up inside a cave in the […]

Photo Credit: pixabay Larry’s Letters Letters to the Editor Forbes Magazine Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 0 }); 60 5th AvenueNew York, NY 10011-8868 Dear Editor, Davide Banis has revised history with ‘alternate facts’. In 1947, the UN did propose to divide Palestine into two parts, […]

Photo Credit: Kobi Richter/TPS Eilat, Jordan and the Red Sea Israeli public figures attempting to visit Jordan on Tuesday were ordered by Jordanian border officials to remove their Kippahs, religious head coverings, Tzizit and other Jewish markers before entering the Kingdom, generating a minor diplomatic incident. Some of the group’s members, ultra-Orthodox deputy mayors, conformed […]

Photo Credit: YouTube / https://youtu.be/_D6sJaBqmWI Holocaust memorial with victim’s ashes erected in Berlin An art installation that claims to contain the ashes of actual Nazi victims was erected on Monday in front of Germany’s parliament in Berlin. The group responsible for this act of art, Zentrum für Politische Schönheit (Center for Political Beauty), calls itself […]

Photo Credit: Flickr Former New York City mayor and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg at the Presidential Gun Sense Forum hosted by Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action at the Iowa Events Center in Des Moines, Iowa, on Aug. 10, 2019. {Originally posted to the JNS website} This week America got another […]