Day: December 22, 2019

Photo Credit: Asher Schwartz Three non-Jewish teenagers in Berlin attacked their fellow Jewish classmate in Marienfelde at a secondary school on the Alt-Marienfelde Street last Thursday. The attackers hurled anti-Semitic verbal abuse at him at around 9:20 am, during physical education class while strangling him, according to a statement by Berlin police, reported in a […]

Photo Credit: Aviv Hertz / TPS Four people were killed and 12 were injured in a bus crash on Route 40, close to Ben Gurion International Airport. Lod, Dec 22, 2019. Four people are dead and more than a dozen others were injured after a Number 947 Egged bus traveling from Jerusalem to Haifa collided […]

[embedded content] US Ambassador to Israel David M. Friedman and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood together Sunday evening (Dec. 22) to light the first candle of Chanukah from the Western Wall in Jerusalem together with the Rabbi of the Western Wall, Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz and the head of the Western Wall Heritage Foundation. [embedded […]

Photo Credit: courtesy {Originally posted to The Lid website} Next Sunday night, December 22nd is the first night of the Jewish Festival of Hanukkah, and three days later is Christmas. Chanukah Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 0 }); America is supposed to be a “melting pot,” […]

Photo Credit: Google Maps Map of Middle East, with Tehran marked in red Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday stated that he “welcomes the closer relations between Israel and many Arab states” and that “the time has come for normalization and peace.” Netanyahu tweeted the statement both in English and in Arabic, aiming his message […]

Photo Credit: UN Photo Headquarters of the International Criminal Court at The Hague Senior Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) official Khaleda Jarar, who is in Israeli custody for her part in a deadly bombing in August, played a major role in the Palestinian Authority’s application to join the International Criminal Court (ICC). […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press After vanquishing the Syrian-Greeks, the Jews dedicated the Temple and witnessed the fabulous miracle of the menorah. Yet, the Gemara tells us, the Sages did not immediately institute a holiday. They waited until the next year to do so. The obvious question is: Why? The Kedushas Levi and Sfas Emes both […]

Photo Credit: Flash 90 MK Betzalel Smotrich Israel should collapse the Palestinian Authority (PA) and take severe action against illegal Arab construction after the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced it was seeking to launch a probe against Israel over alleged war crimes, Minister of Transport Bezalel Smotrich said. Addressing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Facebook, […]