Category: Israel

Photo Credit: public image {Originally posted to the BBC Watch website} BBC audiences heard relatively little about the summit held in Warsaw last February and even less about the subsequent meetings of various working groups formed at that international conference. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 0 […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Air Canada announced last week that it will no longer use the phrase “ladies and gentlemen” on board its flights. The policy is part of a “commitment to respect sexual identity, diversity, and inclusion,” the company said in an internal memo. Instead of the gender-specific “ladies and gentlemen” (and “mesdames et […]

Photo Credit: YouTube screenshot Germany’s center-right Free Democratic Party (FDP) on Thursday posted a mildly amusing video on the social networks, featuring a blurred man running in the streets with a spray can and fixing the spelling of appalling graffiti slogans. The accompanying text read: “The more crude political debates in the country become, the […]

Photo Credit: YouTube Lebanon Protests, October 2019 Following Lebanese President Michel Aoun’s address to the nation on Thursday, in which he gave his first response to the ongoing anti-government protests, fights broke out between Hezbollah supporters and civilian protesters in Beirut. Hezbollah supporters attempted to drown out the anti-government protests and songs. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ […]

Photo Credit: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A resolution introduced by Students for Justice in Palestine at the University of Illinois passed the school’s student government (ISG) on Wednesday night, accusing the university’s chancellor for condemning a recent streak of anti-Semitic incidents, including a swastika being […]

Photo Credit: DoD photo by Tom Gagnier Soldiers unloading an M1 Abrams battle tank. Following President Donald Trump’s recent decision to pull some 1,000 US troops from northeastern Syria, which was quickly followed a Turkish invasion of a large area across the Syrian border and the hasty evacuation of Kurdish forces, a Pentagon official announced […]

Photo Credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90 Netanyahu’s attorneys arrive at the Justice Ministry for the corruption cases hearings, October 3, 2019. Three weeks after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hearing by the prosecution, the Taxation and Economics Prosecutor is preparing for a decision on indictments in the pending cases, Channel 13 News reported Thursday night. It appears that […]

Photo Credit: Wikipedia Last Shabbat was the first time Parliament sat on a Saturday since the Falklands War, 37 years ago. The Shabbat sitting, in which the government tried in vain to put forward its latest Brexit plan, posed a dilemma for MP Ivan Lewis, who has recently become Shomer Shabbat. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press / 123rf.com Is the world 15 billion or less then 6,000 years old? To answer this question, and to discuss the Torah’s account of creation more broadly, The Jewish Press spoke with Natan Aviezer, professor of physics at Bar Ilan University for 50 years. Professor Aviezer has also published three books […]