ArchitectGuy on Israel

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Israeli professor attacked by Palestinian in Germany
by Stuart Winer
July 12, 2018

A US-based Israeli professor of philosophy was assaulted Wednesday in Germany by a man of Palestinian origin, who knocked his skullcap off and shouted at him that there should be no Jews in Germany. The Israeli defended himself but was then set upon and hit in the face by police, who thought he was the instigator of the altercation. The local chief of police later apologized for the incident. The 50-year-old professor from the University of Baltimore, who was not identified in reports, was visiting the city of Bonn as a guest lecturer. READ MORE

ALGEMEINER French Jews Furious as New Obstacle Emerges to Future Trial of Jewish Pensioner’s Antisemitic Killer France’s Jewish community has reacted with fury to a panel of psychiatric experts’ determination that the young man charged with the brutal murder of a Jewish pensioner in Paris is mentally unfit to stand trial for his crime. Lawyers for the family of Sarah Halimi — a 65-year-old widow who was savagely beaten and thrown to her death from a third-floor window by an intruder in the early hours of Apr. 4, 2017 

MOSAIC
Can American and Israeli Jews Stay Together as One People?
by Natan Sharansky and Gil Troy
July 9, 2018

…And yet, the survey also testified to something else: 66 percent of American Jews and 78 percent of Israelis describe each other as “siblings,” “first cousins,” or “extended family.” What is more, they assert a sense of common destiny: roughly three-quarters of American and Israeli Jews see the success of both communities as vital to Jewish survival. Here, then, is an up-to-date snapshot of the Jewish people: clashing frequently, arguing intensely, but for the most part unwilling to call it quits. READ MORE