Category: Israel

Photo Credit: WikiCommons. Former Congressman Joe Walsh. {Originally posted to the JNS website} Once a staunch pro-Israel Illinois congressman between 2011 and 2013, Joe Walsh launched this past summer a long-shot Republican primary challenge to U.S. President Donald Trump, whom many have deemed to be the most pro-Israel figure ever in the White House. Advertisement […]

Photo Credit: YouTube screenshot Nancy Pelosi says House will go forward with Trump impeachment inquiry {Originally posted to the Gatestone Institute website} November, the month signaling the approach of winter, brings the American public the promise of a bitter, dishonest, political spectacle — casting a poisonous gloom over the traditional winter holidays celebrating faith and […]

Photo Credit: pixabay Larry’s Letters Nov. 8, 2019 Independent Jewish Voices Canada Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 0 }); My Dear Fellow Jews, I would be very grateful if you would circulate this to the members of your chapter. It is very important for Jews to […]

Photo Credit: Montage of Public Images {Originally posted to The Lid website} Yesterday’s big political news was former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s announcement he was registering for the Democratic presidential primary in Alabama, as a move toward a possible 2020 run. Policy-wise, Bloomberg is more of a moderate than most of the Democratic presidential field. […]

Photo Credit: Pixabay Stephen Flatow’s op-ed last month resonated with me. I was a Conservative Jew for most of my life. I didn’t become Orthodox until my daughter married Orthodox. It was a long, slow path, but I made it. How? Let me go back several decades. In fact, let me go back to 1907 […]

[embedded content] Rabbi Zev Leff, Chief Rabbi of Moshav Matityahu speaks about the Biblical Patriarch Abraham in a series of important mainstream rabbonim hailing from English-speaking communities abroad who have moved to Israel on Aliyah, who have agreed to speak on camera about this mitzvah and its importance. The series – and the organization – […]

Photo Credit: Kobi Richter/TPS Shin Bet booth at the CYBERTECH 2017 Cyber Security Conference, Tel Aviv. The IDF and US Cyber Command last week held their fourth Cyberdome exercise, preparing for cyber-attacks from hackers threatening the national security of both countries. The drill was part of the annual training program planned between the IDF and […]

Photo Credit: Mila Aviv / Flash 90 The sun sets at the Ginosar beach at Lake Kinneret, the Sea of Galilee, in northern Israel. A record heat wave has warmed the Land of Israel so far this month, with temperatures ranging in the high 20s to above 30 degrees celsius across the country for the […]

Photo Credit: courtesy, Jay A. Waronker / Bar Ilan U. Dept. Of Jewish Art Synagogue in Chendamangalam, India, painted by Jay A. Waronker Several dozen structures constructed as synagogues may be found in India today. Among them are those that are fully functional, open yet marginally active, closed but still intact, decommissioned, or begin used […]

Photo Credit: Norman Einstein / Wikimedia The growing sophistication of domestic oil and natural-gas production has enhanced the U.S. national security. It has transformed the leader of the free world from a major importer of crude oil into the world’s top producer of both crude oil (surpassing Saudi Arabia) and natural gas (ahead of Russia). […]