Category: Israel

Photo Credit: pixabay Rod Reuven Dovid Bryant and Jerry Gordon bring back Dilliman Abdulkader, a Kurdish policy expert. He is director of external relations at Allegiance Strategies, a Washington, DC -based public affairs consulting firm. Abdulkader’s family fled from Kirkuk, Iraq during the Gulf War and spent seven years as a child in the Al-Hol […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Harry Houdini (1874-1926), undoubtedly the greatest showman of his age and probably of all time, was an awe-inspiring escape artist and the undisputed master of his craft. He was the first “superstar” to manipulate the media to gain broad mass acceptance, and his fame was such that George Bernard Shaw quipped […]

Photo Credit: Flash90 US ambassador to Israel David Friedman speaks to members of the Christian press during an event in Jerusalem The U.S. administration will not call for the evacuation of Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria under the much-anticipated Mideast peace plan, according to U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman on Wednesday. In an […]

Photo Credit: Nasser Ishtayeh / Flash 90 (file) A resident of eastern Jerusalem attempted to ram Border Police forces near Ramallah, hitting an armored vehicle and causing significant damage, on Thursday. The terrorist was shot and seriously injured, and was taken to the Sha’are Tzedek hospital for treatment. No Israeli forces were hurt during the […]

Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore / Wikimedia Sebastian Gorka Liberal Jews are not fond of Sebastian Gorka. A few years ago, they went so far as to accuse him of being an anti-Semite. More conservative Jews have a very different take. They see him as a staunch friend of Israel and an ally in the fight […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Protest Against P Is For Palestine As of now, we are still planning to picket outside the Highland Park Library on October 20. The reading of P Is for Palestine is scheduled for 2:00 p.m., so the protest will probably begin at 1:30 p.m. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, […]

Photo Credit: The White House President Trump with Turkish President Erdogan, June 28, 2019. Turkish presidential sources told BBC in Turkish that President Donald Trump’s October 9 letter to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was “thoroughly rejected” by the Turkish president. How thoroughly? The same Turkish presidential sources said: “President Erdogan received the letter, thoroughly rejected […]

Photo Credit: Israel Mizrahi The Kuzarim. Their very name recalls wonderful tales of a people we know little about but who have nonetheless left a lasting impression on Jewish history, folklore, identity, and, most conspicuously, literature. The Khazars were a semi-nomadic people who lived from the 7th to 10th centuries in what is today southwestern […]

Photo Credit: EU2017EE Estonian Presidency via Wikimedia UK PM Boris Johnson UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson tweeted on Thursday afternoon: “We’ve got a great new deal that takes back control — now Parliament should get Brexit done on Saturday so we can move on to other priorities like the cost of living, the NHS, violent […]

Photo Credit: The US army in the occupation of Germany, 1944-1946 Concentration camp victim identifies an SS guard, 1945 Bruno Dey, 93, a former guard at Stutthof concentration camp near Danzig (Gdańsk) in northeastern Poland, goes on trial in Hamburg on Thursday, in what could be the last Holocaust-related criminal cases. Dey was 17 when […]