Day: December 12, 2019

[embedded content] Early Friday morning, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn announced that he is standing down, following his humiliating defeat: with 596 out 650 districts reporting, Labour lost at least 54 seats in Parliament in Thursday’s elections. The Conservative party, led by PM Boris Johnson, has established its biggest majority in decades. These could be the […]

Photo Credit: Screenshot Netanyahu and Merkel {Originally posted to the Gatestone Institute website} The European Union has, over the years, become increasingly hostile towards Israel. That attitude was confirmed in early November when the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that food products made in the so-called settlements of East Jerusalem, the West […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press In Parshas Lech Lecha Hashem changed Avraham’s name from Avram to Avraham. The Gemara in Brachos (13a) says that one who calls Avraham, Avram, has transgressed both a positive and a negative commandment. Yet, we do not find the same halacha regarding others whose names were changed, such as Sarah Imeinu […]

Photo Credit: Wikimedia / UK Government If the exit polls are right, UK’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson is returning to Number 10 Downing with a huge mandate to “Get Brexit Done” and truly be done with it once and for all. In Britain, Voters Lined Up at Polling Stations Nationwide Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, […]

Photo Credit: Krokodyl / Wikimedia French police (archive) A 17-year-old Madagascar national has been detained as a suspect in the vicious beating of a 31-year-old Israeli man earlier this week on a Paris subway. Israeli Man Beaten Unconscious in Paris Subway for Speaking Hebrew Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, […]

Photo Credit: Pixabay (illustrative) Israeli scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have developed a blood test that will ultimately be able to diagnose Parkinson’s disease, based on a study of the protein alpha-synuclein in red blood cells. The study, “α‐Synuclein in blood cells differentiates Parkinson’s disease from healthy controls,” was published in the journal […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Question: Whenever an activity is prohibited because of kavod hatzibbur (the dignity of the congregation), may a kehilla decide that the activity does not offend them? In my synagogue, for example, many people do not wear jackets during services and would not be offended if the chazzan didn’t either, even if […]

Photo Credit: US Congress / public domain Rashida Tlaib It’s a case of the tweet being faster than the brain. Michigan Democratic Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib tweeted sympathy Thursday morning for the Jewish community in the wake of Tuesday’s terror attack on a kosher supermarket in Jersey City, New Jersey. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: […]