Category: Israel

Photo Credit: Hossein Velayati via Wikimedia Commons The Shahab-3 missile, seen here during Iran’s 2012 “Great Prophet” military exercise. The Shahab-3 is a medium-range ballistic missile capable of delivering nuclear weapons. n a joint letter addressed to U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres that was released by the world body on Wednesday, ambassadors from the United Kingdom, […]

Racist graffiti was discovered at a New York Holocaust museum for the second time in two weeks. The Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County in Glen Cove was defaced with swastikas and other vandalism. “It’s shocking because we’re a museum and education center,” Deborah Lom, acting director of development at the museum, told Patch on Thursday. “And […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press “Worries come uninvited, like party crashers. These party crashers are like fanatics on a mission. They have a message they think is important, a warning. They’re going to present that warning, again and again, even though it detracts from the party atmosphere, even though no one wants to hear it, because […]

Photo Credit: Flash90 Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit and State Prosecutor Shai Nitzan, November 4, 2019. Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (But who will guard the guardians themselves?)  Juvenal, a Roman poet (circa 55 CE- circa 127 CE), Satire VI, line 347.  Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: […]

Photo Credit: Esty Dziubov / TPS Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon Israel’s Mission to the United Nations (UN) on Wednesday held an event to commemorate the close to one million Jewish refugees who fled from Arab countries in North Africa and the Middle East and Iran following anti-Semitic violence against them after […]

Photo Credit: Wikimedia / Thomson200 Container of Sabra hummus The student government at Dickinson College—a small liberal-arts school in Carlisle, Pa., outside Harrisburg—passed a resolution on Tuesday night to ban Sabra hummus, an Israeli product, as part of a campaign on campus to boycott the Jewish state. The person leading the charge has been Henry […]

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 […]