Category: Israel

Photo Credit: Marcelo Braga via Flickr Richard Tobin, 18, of Brooklawn, New Jersey, was arrested when he was sitting in his car at the Menlo Park Mall in Edison, holding a machete, the FBI reported last week. According to FBI agent Jason Novick, Tobin wanted to “let loose” with his machete because “there were so […]

Photo Credit: Image by StockSnap from Pixabay In today’s society estimates indicate that people spend between a third and a half of their time alone every day. What is the impact of such ‘alone time’ on our mental life? A paper published in the Journal of Personality asks whether and how alone time affects people’s […]

Photo Credit: Matt A.J. (Matt Johnson) via Flickr Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at a rally in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Bernie Sanders appears to be setting up the stage for a joint ticket with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), whom he’s already said was going to play a “very, very important role” in his […]

[embedded content] Netflix says it will edit its documentary miniseries “The Devil Next Door,” about alleged notorious Nazi guard John Demjanjuk after Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki complained of inaccuracies in the series, Variety reported on Thursday. Morawiecki said in a letter to Netflix CEO Reed Hastings last Sunday that the series showed maps that […]

Photo Credit: Official White House Photo by Pete Souza President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr. Sept. 25, 2014. Microsoft has hired US Attorney General under President Barack Obama Eric Holder to investigate whether AnyVision, an Israeli company in which Microsoft’s M12 venture fund invested last June, violated the technology giant’s ethics […]

Photo Credit: Jonathan71 / WIkimedia Commons A New York University building New York University’s Asian/Pacific/American Studies Institute has denied a pro-Israel student’s request to host a Zionist speaker in response to an event it hosted last month with anti-Israel Palestinian-American lawyer Noura Erakat, according to emails obtained by JNS. Citing NYU’s policy regarding speakers, which […]

Photo Credit: Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90 Avigdor Liberman and Benny Gantz, November 14, 2019. Three days before the mandate given to Benny Gantz by President Rivlin expires, Blue&White’s leaders have agreed with Israel Beiteinu chairman Avigdor Liberman to accelerate their meetings to establish a minority government with the support of Joint Arab List MKs, Israel Hayom, a […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press The cold weather can be hard to adjust to but I know I’m not the only one excited for sweater weather! I’m all about being comfortable and cozy; there’s nothing worse than constantly adjusting an uncomfortably fitted garment all day long – so bring on all the cozy sweaters please! My […]

Photo Credit: Wikimedia / Ajay Suresh from New York, NY, USA Main Entrance to the 92nd Street Y, Upper East Side, NYC The storied 92nd Street Y, which presents itself as a paragon of free speech dialogue and openness, is engaging in McCarthyite censorship — and trying to hide it. For the last quarter century […]

Photo Credit: Edi Israel / Flash 90 An Israeli Apache helicopter shoots a missile over the Gaza Strip, July 9, 2014. The IDF launched an attack on Hamas terrorist targets Saturday in the Gaza Strip in response to rocket fire launched from the enclave into Israel on Friday night. An IDF spokesman said that during […]