Category: Israel

Photo Credit: Noam Chen / Yad Vashem Avenue of The Righteous Among the Nations This Sunday two Holocaust survivors from Israel Yossi Mor (previously Yosef Mordechai) and his sister Sarah Yanai are being reunited with their wartime rescuer, Melpomeni Dina (née Gianopoulou) from Greece, in an event hosted by the Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance […]

Photo Credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 Naftali Bennett, May 9, 2019. Both Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu (Likud) and MK Benny Gantz (Blue&White) are reportedly courting MK Naftali Bennett (New Right), or at least spinning it as if they are. Gantz may see Bennett as key to breaking up Netanyahu’s seemingly unbreakable right-wing bloc. Netanyahu, who has a […]

Photo Credit: Eshkol Region Spokesperson A suspicious object (book in Hebrew) attached to Gazan balloons sent over on June 28, 2019. A group of hikers in southern Israel discovered a bomb hidden in a book on Saturday while they were out for a walk along a riverbed at Kibbutz Re’im near the Gaza border. Israel […]

Photo Credit: Pexels / Pixabay illustrative “Dear Israeli government: Get out of our dinner plate. The state will not dictate to us what we are and are not allowed to eat. When we set up the government we will revoke the directive.” For the first time, the transitional government has blocked the import of non-kosher […]

Photo Credit: Gil Esri, Seismology Friday night earthquake on northern shore of Lake Kinneret Residents in the northern city of Tiberias and other communities in the area ‘felt the earth move under their feet’ at around 6:40 pm Friday night when to a 3.4 magnitude earthquake hit the area around Lake Kinneret (Sea of Galilee). […]

Photo Credit: TPS Wreckage in Sderot where a Gaza rocket hit a civilian neighborhood, Nov 1, 2019 The IDF Spokesperson reported that overnight Saturday IDF fighter jets attacked a wide range of terrorist targets inside the Gaza Strip, including a military compound of the Hamas terrorist naval force, a military compound of the organization’s air […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press There are men and women who truly consider themselves frum and exemplary in their observance of mitzvot. They are machmir in kashrut and meticulous in their Shabbat and Yom Tov observance. They even pride themselves on taking on stringencies that are not halachically required. Yet on their personal Yom Hadin, they will be shocked […]

Photo Credit: from The Forward website The Jewish Forward,,,In name only When the Forward’s opinion editor, Batya Ungar-Sargon, went to speak at a conference at Bard College last month on racism and anti-Semitism, she didn’t anticipate being on the receiving end of a protest by Students for Justice in Palestine. She has proudly stated that […]

Photo Credit: Amos Ben Gershom / GPO VP Joe Biden visits Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu Former US Vice President Joe Biden has stepped out from among the Democratic contenders in the 2020 presidential race to oppose any policy that would condition military aid to Israel upon compliance with freezing settlement activity in post-1967 territories. Biden […]

Photo Credit: pixabay In this show, Jono and Ross discuss an article from the Jerusalem Post claiming that one scholar has made “new findings” that “might shatter biblical archeology paradigm.” His argument is based upon the idea that when the Torah mentions the place where G-d will place His name, the intended location is not […]