Category: Israel

Photo Credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 Justice Minister Amir Ohana speaks at the Knesset. Justice Minister Amir Ohana (Likud) on Wednesday used his parliamentary immunity to expose from the Knesset podium the prohibited means of interrogation used by police against former Netanyahu adviser Nir Hefetz. An Israeli court, responding to a police request, had placed a gag […]

Photo Credit: Harris & Ewing collection at the Library of Congress Editor’s note: In September, Jewish Press columnist Saul Jay Singer wrote an article on Felix Frankfurter to which Dr. Rafael Medoff – director of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies and the author of numerous books on the Holocaust – took great […]

Photo Credit: Tsahi Ben-Ami / Flash 90 El Al airlines, the national airline of Israel El Al Airlines has signed an agreement to sell a foreign company 12 engines manufactured by Pratt & Whitney, according to the Globes business news site. The deal is worth an estimated $30 million pre-tax capital gain on the date […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Have you ever felt an emotional tsunami hit you? Or an emotional train run you down? Since the damage that is felt after such an occurrence is emotional and not physical, it doesn’t get the proper attention from others. If someone, Heaven forbid, falls down and breaks a limb or gets […]

Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons Dr. Mordechai Kedar Dr. Mordechai Kedar, lecturer in Arabic culture at Bar-Ilan University, set off a firestorm last week when he said Yigal Amir did not assassinate former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned what he called Kedar’s “nonsensical remarks”; Bar-Ilan University temporarily suspended Kedar from representing the […]

Photo Credit: Ofer Zidon / Flash 90 A UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter unload 669 Search & Rescue crew, May 28, 2013. Sometimes, Shai Shani had to crawl through dark and cold caves for hours. Other times, he jumped into a tumultuous ocean in the middle of a thunderstorm. This was not done to serve an adrenaline […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press / 123rf.com Is it appropriate to listen to the music of Richard Wagner? Rabbi Zev Leff Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 0 }); A book that has nothing intrinsically wrong with it from a Torah perspective (i.e., it does not contain heretical […]

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Photo Credit: Tomer Neuberg / Flash 90 Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz Israeli Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz’s statement in support of the broad demonstrations taking place in Iraq in recent weeks was warmly accepted by the protesters. Tens of thousands of Iraqis have taken to the streets in recent weeks to protest Iraqi Prime Minister Adel […]

Photo Credit: Prof. Israel Hershkovitz The Manot cave; the red square marks the area is where some of the teeth were found. Who were the Aurignacians who lived in the Levant 40,000 years ago? Until recently, little evidence, human remains or otherwise, had been found to possibly tell their story. Now, researchers from Tel Aviv […]