Category: Israel

Photo Credit: Pixabay Rod Reuven Dovid Bryant and Jerry Gordon interview Dexter Van Zile, Christian Media Analyst of Boston-based Committee for Accuracy for Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA). Van Zile gave the latest update on extremist Christian and sinister academic groups fostering anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism – “the likes of which we haven’t seen since […]

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Photo Credit: Dr. Ivan Mauer Yitzchak was the very first baby, all of eight days old, to have a brit mila. The book of Bereishit shares with us parts of his story. A complex life as a ben zekunim, including a tough older brother named Yishmael, a spirited step-mom Hagar, a sacrificial actor in his […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press “I need your help,” Rabbi Brecher* told his son, Shlomo. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 0 }); It was merely a few days before the wedding of the youngest Brecher girl. The final preparations, which should have been a source of excitement […]

Photo Credit: Naomi Klass Mauer The years pass, but my memories of you – my beloved mother – only get stronger. And in addition to my memories, Hindy and I have little girls named after you who daily bring you to mind. The oldest one is Hindy’s very special granddaughter, Ayelet Yitta. She is such […]

Photo Credit: Asher Schwartz {Originally posted to the FirstOne Through website} Antisemitism has always been a problem around the world. In the United States, an average Jew is three times more likely to suffer a hate crime than an average black person, and twice as likely to be attacked as an average Muslim person. Yet […]

Photo Credit: YouTube screenshot Nancy Pelosi says House will go forward with Trump impeachment inquiry {Originally posted to the Gatestone Institute website} If the House of Representatives were to impeach President Trump on the two grounds now before it, the senate would be presented with a constitutional dilemma. These two grounds— abuse of power and […]

Photo Credit: YouTube screen grab / Fox News President Donald Trump signs the Executive Order US President Donald Trump signed an historic Executive Order on Wednesday recognizing Judaism as a nationality, rather than solely as a religion. Under the new order, Jewish college and university students will now be recognized as a protected class similar […]

[embedded content] New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio announced Wednesday at a news conference he has instructed security personnel to raise the city’s alert level to “high alert” in the wake of Tuesday’s shooting attack targeting a kosher supermarket in Jersey City, New Jersey. He added that “hundreds” of NYPD officers have been deployed […]

Photo Credit: Kobi Richter / TPS Knesset The Israeli parliament formally voted to disperse itself in a unanimous vote of 91 to 0 on Wednesday night. The Knesset plenum approved the bill – which initiates an unprecedented third round of national elections to be held on March 2, 2020 — in its first reading before […]