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THE GANGS of Israeli teenagers grip their oversized machine guns as they patrol the Damascus Gate, tossing their stun grenades and hearing the stones roar back in the original Arabic: “Jerusalem for the Palestinians.” What scenes those steps have borne witness to—a Nakba, a catastrophe. A shattering of history, a rending of Palestinian masses, now […]

Photo Credit: Wikipedia / Sledgeh101 (talk) (Uploads) 13th Ave in Borough Park, Brooklyn An arrest was made on Wednesday night in a case of egg-throwing attacks on Jews in Brooklyn, N.Y. Mohib Hoque, 18, was apprehended and charged with three hate crimes for being part of a group of teens that threw eggs at a […]

Photo Credit: US Air Force Flags of Israel and the United States {Originally posted to the Abu Yehuda website} We had a guest from America in our shul this week who discussed the week’s portion, lech lecha. She focused on the question of the treatment of the ger, the person who is a non-Jew in […]

By Contributing Author It is natural for parents to wonder what the future of their children would look like. You probably think of the kind of person they will turn out to be, the colleges they will attend, and the careers they will take up. But, have you ever wondered about the kind of environment […]

In the wake of Limmud FSU’s initiative, a request for permission to place a memorial plaque in the city center in honor of Nava Semel will be submitted by the Jewish community, with the aim of dedicating it in 2020. Limmud FSU initiates a request to Chernivtsi, Ukraine, for permission to place a memorial plaque […]

By Contributing Author Are you finding it hard to improve your finances? Or are you struggling with a force that keeps pulling you back every time you try to get ahead? If so, have you ever stopped for a second to find out why that’s the case? It could be something external, or maybe internal, […]

300-S and 400-S systems considered to be the most advanced in the world fail to detect Israeli fighter jets, and Russian Air Force planes block assault attempts. At least four such obstructions have been reported since August The Israeli Air Force’s planes, some of them elusive, flew hundreds of miles over areas covered by Russian-made […]

 By Contributing Author “The Fourth Industrial Revolution has the potential to empower individuals and communities, as it creates new opportunities for economic, social, and personal development.” – Klaus Schwab Much has been written and continues to be expressed, in both academic literature and popular culture, about the influence of Big Data, Business Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, […]

The laboratory is one of two places in the world that houses the smallpox disease A gas explosion and fire which blew out the windows at a laboratory in Siberia, that houses viruses including smallpox, Ebola and HIV. The site was built for biological warfare development during the Soviet era. Smallpox is estimated to have killed up […]