Month: December 2019

Photo Credit: Tamir Baram Rightwing pirates protest high court’s judicial piracy Dozens of demonstrators in pirate costumes gathered Tuesday morning outside Israel’s High Court of Justice in Jerusalem to protest what they dubbed the “judicial piracy” of the court. The rally, organized by Im Tirtzu, was held in response to the court’s hearing on whether […]

[embedded content] Transport Minister Bezalel Smotrich, 39, leader of the religious Zionist Tkuma faction in the Knesset, on Tuesday issued a frank and blunt message to his former partner, Habayit Hayehudi chairman Rabbi Rafi Peretz, suggesting that clever political maneuvering would be the death of both their parties. Last week, Peretz united with Otzma Yehudit […]

Photo Credit: screenshot {Originally posted to The Lid website} The NY Post reports that A Jewish mom and her young son were assaulted in Brooklyn — the fifth anti-Semitic attack this week, police said Friday. Ayana Logan, 42, approached the 34-year-old woman and her 3-year-old son on Avenue U near West 5th street in Gravesend […]

Photo Credit: Courtesy CJNV The Center for Jewish Nonviolence delegation in Judea and Samaria, December 2019. To start, you should know there’s a thing called The Center for Jewish Nonviolence, and that it “strives for a future that honors the full equality and shared humanity of both Palestinians and Israelis.” Then you should know that […]

Photo Credit: Twitter screenshot Black predators assault young Chassidic man Crown Heights Jewish activist Yaakov Behrman on Tuesday morning tweeted a security camera video he had dug up from an attack that took place in the early evening a week ago Tuesday on Lincoln Place near Albany Avenue, where a pack of black young men […]