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: March 2023
The U.S.-backed anti-judicial reform protests in Israel are being shaped by the intersection of two crises, one in U.S. Iran policy and the other resulting from the rise to power of religious communities in Israel
TABLET MAG How U.S. Ambassador Tom Nides Became Israel’s Arsonist-in-Chief Michael Doran March 6, 2023 …So what, precisely, is the source of the terror that these [Israelis] are feeling? The reform is five conflicts in one. First, it is a … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Amichai Chikli, Joe Biden, Thomas Nides
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For those not in the know, Channel 14 in Israel is a politically conservative station and many have opined that it’s content and perspectives are similar to that of Fox News in the United States
THE JEWISH VOICE Why is Israel’s 24/6 News Channel 14 Soaring in the Ratings? Fern Sidman March 7, 2023 Since the inception of the modern state of Israel, the political and cultural landscape has been, for the most part dominated … Continue reading
Glick: “Like the Left throughout the Western world, over the past 30 years, Israel’s Left has abandoned labor union politics for cultural Marxism and post-nationalism. Its new globalist ideals render the Left’s constituent parts contemptuous, and increasingly hateful, of Israel’s nationalist majority”
NEWSWEEK What the Battle For Judicial Reform Is Really About Caroline Glick March 2, 2023 In Israel as in states throughout the Western world, the political Left is an ecosystem of power, and not merely a political camp. It starts … Continue reading
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“Many gulf nations are hoping Israel will act — even if it only sets back Iranian nuclear ambitions for a few years”
BLOOMBERG Israel’s Window to Strike Iran Narrows As Putin Enters Equation Ethan Bronner March 3, 2023 Iran is seeking sophisticated new air-defense systems from Russia that Israeli officials believe will narrow the window for a potential strike on Tehran’s nuclear … Continue reading
In the role he would be best remembered for, Topol played Tevye on and off through 2009
NEW YORK POST Chaim Topol, ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ actor, dead at 87 David Russell March 9, 2023 Chaim Topol, the Academy Award-nominated actor who notably portrayed Tevye in the 1971 film “Fiddler on the Roof,” died at 87 years … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish
Tagged Chaim Topol, Fiddler of the Roof, Topol
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“Wikipedia’s Intentional Distortion of the History of the Holocaust” (another reminder that Wikipedia articles are not always reliably accurate)
JTA Wikipedia’s ‘Supreme Court’ tackles alleged conspiracy to distort articles on Holocaust Asaf Elia-Shalev February 28, 2023 When a pair of professors earlier this month published a paper accusing a group of Wikipedia editors from Poland of revising articles to … Continue reading
On the campus today, “the left isn’t interested in debate but in conformity”
HOT AIR Princeton senior: Campus politics are driving some students to the right John Sexton March 1, 2023 The NY Times published an opinion piece by a Princeton senior named Adam Hoffman. Hoffman writes that he’s heard there was a … Continue reading
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Why did the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations violate the purpose of its leadership mission by refusing to give podiums to Israeli leaders at the forefront of promoting the judicial, anti-terror and other reforms?
ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) Cancel culture comes to the Conference of Presidents Morton A. Klein March 1, 2023 …It is painful for me to report that the Conference of President’s directors violated the leadership mission’s purpose, by refusing … Continue reading
PM’s wife trapped in central Tel Aviv after hundreds of protesters surround storefront; media blames Sara for her “lavish lifestyle at taxpayers’ expense”
TIMES OF ISRAEL Sara Netanyahu accosted by protesters at Tel Aviv hair salon, extricated by police Staff March 1, 2023 The prime minister’s wife became trapped in a Tel Aviv hair salon Wednesday as hundreds of protesters against the government … Continue reading
U.S. support for demonstrations in Tel Aviv isn’t about the future of Israel’s judiciary. It’s about handcuffing Israel while Iran gets the bomb.
TABLET MAG Biden Sets Israel on Fire Lee Smith March 2, 2023 Is the current Israeli government truly on the verge of an authoritarian turn? No, of course not. The mass protests and over-the-top rhetoric from Israel’s domestic opposition, Joe … Continue reading
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