Category: Israel

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 […]

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Photo Credit: Twitter screenshot Jennifer Griffin Fox News national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin, 50, two weeks ago declared a war of sorts on President Donald Trump, when she began to respond in a distinctly un-Fox News like manner to his tweets on US troops withdrawal from northeastern Syria, including his recent declaration: “We never gave […]

Photo Credit: Pixabay / geralt Evidently, a research center at Brandeis University has discovered that the American Jewish population has increased by 10% in the past seven years, to an eye popping 7.5 million people. Where does one begin to try to make sense of this? A 10% increase over seven years means that the […]

Photo Credit: Vladimir Lyubarsky’s Facebook page Ronen Lubarsky Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday ordered the rebuilding with PA funding of the Abu Hmeid family home in the Amari refugee camp in Ramallah. In May, 2018, Islam Abu Hmeid murdered Duvdevan special force warrior Ronen Lubarsky, 20, by dropping a slab of marble on […]