Israel: Peace Only through Victory

Photo Credit: Wiki Jewish refugees from Arab countries: Yemenite Jews at a transit camp near Aden waiting to be airlifted to Israel in 1949 {Originally posted to the JNS website} Ever since the Muslim conquest, occupation and colonization of the Middle East and North Africa in the 7th century, the region’s Jews, among others, lived […]

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The First Modern Orthodox Jew: Two Models

Photo Credit: pixabay Amid all the discussions about Modern Orthodoxy, its past, present and future, it is perhaps helpful to look at two different paradigms into which Modern Orthodoxy currently divides itself: one positive, and one, well, less so. One individual grew up in a religious home, so punctilious in its observance of mitzvot and […]

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‘Hatikvah’ Played Again at Abu Dhabi’s Jiu-Jitsu World Championships as Israel Takes Another Gold

Photo Credit: Ayelet Federation Nimrod Ryder wins the gold medal in the Adult category at the Jiu-Jitsu World Championships. Nov. 24, 2019 Israel’s national anthem, Hatikvah, was again played in Abu Dhabi on Sunday after Israel’s 21-year-old Nimrod Ryder won the gold medal in the Adult category at the Jiu-Jitsu World Championships, crowning him world […]

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The Reign of the Prosecution

Photo Credit: Flash90 Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit and State Prosecutor Shai Nitzan, November 4, 2019. {Originally posted to the JNS website} Last Thursday in Israel, the politicians were the big story. Yisrael Beiteinu chairman Avigdor Lieberman was the villain who had held the country hostage for nearly a year as he fed his narcissistic personality […]

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