Category: Israel

Photo Credit: Jewish Press / 123rf.com Is observing Thanksgiving in some manner praiseworthy or wrong (or neither)? Rabbi Marc D. Angel Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 0 }); President George Washington proclaimed Thursday, November 26, 1789, as a day of national thanksgiving to G-d for enabling […]

Photo Credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90 Blue and White leader Benny Gantz at the Knesset, September 9, 2019. On Wednesday evening, Blue and White party chairperson Benny Gantz returned the mandate to form a new Israeli government to President Reuven Rivlin, acknowledging that he had failed to build a majority coalition. Israeli Elections 3.0 in the Wings? […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Luis Martins de Souza-Dantas was a Brazilian diplomat who illegally granted Brazilian diplomatic visas to Jews in Vichy France during the Holocaust, saving a confirmed 425 Jews – and at least 400 other “undesirables,” including communists and homosexuals – from certain death. Besides issuing visas, he regularly intervened with local and […]

Photo Credit: Yonatan Sindel / Flash 90 Blue and White leader Benny Gantz takes the Knesset podium following Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, November 10, 2019. Government minister Ze’ev Elkin said Wednesday in an interview with Israel’s Kann public broadcasting network that the Blue and White party is not “prepared” to allow Benjamin Netanyahu to take […]

[embedded content] IDF fighter jets overnight Wednesday hit dozens of military targets belonging to the Iranian Quds force and the Syrian army, the IDF Spokesperson reported. The targets included air-to-ground missiles, headquarters, weapons warehouses and military bases, all in Syrian territory. Targets hit by the IDF overnight Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019 / IDF At least […]

Photo Credit: courtesy, Hatzolah A line of Hatzolah ambulances. (file) An Orthodox Jewish man was stabbed multiple times in Monsey while walking to synagogue at around 5:40 am Wednesday morning. The man, who was discovered lying on the ground bleeding, told members of the Rockland Hatzolah emergency response service what happened to him before he […]

Photo Credit: IDF Flickr CC Hezbollah rocket launcher uncovered by IDF in southern Lebanon {Originally posted to the BESA website} PM Benjamin Netanyahu recently warned of new threats that necessitate immediate emergency measures, and IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi has made similar warnings. Yet some claim this is fear-mongering for political purposes. […]

[embedded content] International lecturer and author Rabbi Pinchas Winston of Thirtysix.org speaks about the importance of the Land of Israel and what it means to Jews in the Diaspora in a brief video he has recorded as part of a project to encourage aliyah from the observant Jewish sector called, “Bring Them Home – Aliyah […]

Photo Credit: Wikimedia / GTVM92 Iranian citizens protesting fuel price increases, Nov. 16 2019 Iranian security forces have killed more than 100 protesters so far, using “excessive and lethal force” to crush largely peaceful demonstrations against a fuel price hike in more than 100 cities, according to the Amnesty International organization. The protests began in […]

Photo Credit: Jason D. Greenblatt via Twitter Atty Jason D. Greenblatt and Saudi blogger Mohammed Saud, in Riyadh Former US Special Representative for International Negotiations and Assistant to the President Jason Greenblatt has been elected to the Republican Jewish Coalition Board of Directors, it was announced Tuesday. The move makes it clear that Greenblatt is […]