Category: Israel

Photo Credit: Courtesy of Yaniv Rosen Thank you note left on the train Last week, as usual, Haifa resident Yaniv Rosen made his way back home from Tel Aviv on the train, and noticed an older woman who was standing in the aisle, unable to find a seat. He quickly gave her his seat and […]

Photo Credit: Asher Schwartz {Originally posted to the JNS website} This week a legal proceeding is taking place that may have as much if not more to do with the future of Israel’s government as the stalemated negotiations to form a new governing coalition. Lawyers representing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are presenting evidence to […]

Photo Credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90 Yamina party representatives arrive at a meeting with President Rivlin, September 23, 2019. The Yamina party on Sunday decided to postpone a further announcement of its split into Habayit Hayehudi-National Union and New Right, which was expected to take place in the Knesset Arrangements Committee Sunday. A National Union official told […]

Photo Credit: WikiCommons  There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact – Sherlock Holmes, “The Boscombe Valley Mystery”.   Israel must, in the most blunt and clear way possible, illustrate to Washington that the prosperity of Jordan is a first rate Israeli security and strategic interest – Former Head of Mossad, Ephraim Halevy, at “Between Jerusalem […]

Photo Credit: Asher Schwartz {Originally posted to the Abu Yehuda website} Over the coming weeks, 100% of the words uttered by our politicians will be lies, obfuscations, spin, dissimulation, disinformation and other forms of useless verbiage. I’ll try not to report on it, because what’s the point? – Ya’akov Lozowick, in a tweet about a […]

Photo Credit: Courtesy of Google Maps chabad of Jackson, NJ Agudath Israel in America, which in 2017 filed a lawsuit alleging that Jackson, NJ ordinances discriminate against Yeshiva dormitories, last week asked US District Court to temporarily bar enforcement of local laws that target Jackson’s growing Orthodox community, NJ.com reported. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, […]

[embedded content] The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (CCA) on Friday halted the execution of Jewish inmate Randy Ethan Halprin, 42, scheduled for this Thursday, over his claim that the judge in his trial was “a racist and anti-Semitic bigot.” Halprin was one of the “Texas 7,” a group of prisoners who escaped from the […]

Photo Credit: Boris Niehaus via Wikipedia Antisemitic, pro-Palestinian demonstration in Berlin, July 17, 2014, {Originally posted to the BESA website} For years, experts viewed Malmö, Sweden’s third-largest city, as the capital of antisemitism in Europe. Incidents of anti-Jewish hatred occurred there on a regular basis. Mayor Ilmar Reepalu, a former socialist, was an antisemite. A […]

Photo Credit: David Cohen/FLASH90 Israeli Arabs protest against recent violence in the Arab town of Majd al-Krum in northern Israel, October 03, 2019. Over the past week, senior police officials and Minister of Public Security, Strategic Affairs and Minister of Information Gilad Erdan (Likud) have explained that much has been done to eradicate crime in […]

Photo Credit: Photo: YouTube/Screenshot. Israeli judoka and Olympic Bronze medalist, Ori Sasson’s handshake being rebuffed by Egyptian rival at the Olympics. {Originally posted to the Gatestone Institute website} Arabs who dare to greet Jews in public on the Jewish New Year are being denounced by their fellow Arabs as traitors. Arabs who dare to engage […]