Most Clicked This Week
- Pensacola Saudi gunman's Twitter account "condemned US support for Israel and included a quote from Al-Qaeda’s deceased leader, the Saudi Osama bin Laden"
- Israel to no longer bar travelers from US and UK
- CBS, NBC Bash Netanyahu on Election Night; ‘Could Destroy’ Chances for Peace with Obama, Palestinians
- An otherwise positive story from #NYT about Israel's battle against coronavirus "marred by its opening" which has now been changed online
- 49 US Republican senators say they will not back new #Iran nuclear deal. This Isn’t #Obama’s Iran Deal. It’s Much, Much Worse.
- Harold Rhode: Critical thinking on Islamic Law was shut down by Sunni leaders 1000 years ago. This meant the end of progress, situation continues to this day
- “Most radical leftists believe this noxious legacy foretells our future and will continue unabated unless American politics is fundamentally overturned”
- As small but growing numbers of Haredi men enlist in the Israeli military, attitudes in their strictly observant communities start to shift
Monthly Archives: May 2019
Israel Builders Association warning that in a country where it takes 15 years to approve a single new housing development, “2030 is tomorrow and 2050 is the day after tomorrow”
ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) ‘Israel is unprepared for the 17 million people who will be living here in 2050’ by Eran Bar-Tal May 20, 2019 Despite recent attempts by the government to change the housing situation, the housing … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East
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It would be far better if The New York Times waited until the plan was released and then commented on its specific provisions rather than stacking the deck against it by quoting only its most strident critics
GATESTONE Why is The New York Times Trying to Abort the Trump Peace Plan? by Alan M. Dershowitz May 24, 2019 …Every single expert quoted in the article predicted that it would not succeed. Many of these experts have been … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Donald Trump, New York Times, Trump Peace Plan
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Chicago synagogue on alert on after an attempted arson
USA TODAY Chicago synagogues targets of arson, vandalism; police step up patrols by John Bacon May 20, 2019 Police in Chicago were stepping up patrols at Jewish schools, businesses and synagogues Monday after someone attempted to set fire to a … Continue reading
Germany becomes first European country to pass landmark resolution designating BDS campaign against Israel as antisemitic
REUTERS Germany designates BDS Israel boycott movement as anti-Semitic by Joseph Nasr, Riham Alkousaa May 17, 2019 The German parliament voted on Friday to condemn as anti-Semitic a movement that calls for economic pressure on Israel to end the occupation … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged BDS, Boycott Divest Sanctions, Germany
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Palestinian focus should be on prosperity and good government, not perpetual resistance.
WALL STREET JOURNAL Palestinians Need to Get Real About Israel by Walter Russell Mead May 20, 2019 As Palestinian officials nervously await the Trump administration’s peace plan, one fundamental reality shapes their long and bitter contest with Israel. Diplomatically, economically, … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Bahrain, Donald Trump, Palestinians
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Al Sharpton addresses Jewish conference in DC
JTA Al Sharpton admits to using ‘cheap’ rhetoric about Jews by Ron Kampeas May 20, 2019 Al Sharpton appealed to Reform Jews for a united front in facing down anti-Semitism, racism and other forms of bias and acknowledged his role … Continue reading
IDF lone soldier Michaela ‘Mika’ Levit was found dead outside her base last week, having left a note to her family describing recent ‘hardships’
TIMES OF ISRAEL Family searching for answers after US-born IDF lone soldier dies by suicide by Judah Ari Gross May 19, 2019 After US-born lone soldier Michaela Levit died by suicide outside her base in central Israel last week, her … Continue reading
This weekend Israel was experienced by hundreds of millions in an unprecedentedly positive way with #TelAviv “the natural home for camp, party-loving #Eurovision”
JERUSALEM POST The real winner of Eurovision was Israel by Michael Dickson May 19, 2019 Israel’s Eurovision entry barely made a dent on the scoreboard but there’s no doubt that the Jewish State was the real winner of the Eurovision … Continue reading
Two of Chicago’s Orthodox Jewish community “outed as Christian missionaries”
JTA A Chicago couple lives like Orthodox Jews — and preaches the word of Jesus by Josefin Dolsten May 18, 2019 A few months ago, a couple got involved in the Chicago Jewish community. Rivkah Weber and David Costello started … Continue reading
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