Most Clicked This Week
- I rarely post Al Jazeera, but this is worth a read: “Every aspect of Iran’s ability to project regional power is being successfully degraded”
- Ted Cruz: "I would not make fighting same-sex marriage a top priority"
- Roger Waters alternative headline: Man with an estimated worth of $245 million is being 'silenced' and 'marginalized' [VIDEO]
- "#AmericanStudiesAssociation boycotted the Jewish state. It wasn’t by popular demand"
- Memo to #UNRWA: Lebanon census says 174,422 Palestinians live among them, but you say 449,987. Which is it?
- "Bernie is that Jew who has taken his people’s suffering and offered it entirely outward, in the service of other causes"
- "Some 75% of the Baltimore area’s Jews - around 100,000 people - live in 21215 and four other contiguous ZIP Codes"
- Kurds edge towards statehood, with Turkish, Israeli help
Tag Archives: coronavirus
Zoom Seders: “In bold ruling, some Israeli religious authorities say use of technology permissible because it allows families to celebrate together during time of crisis”
TIMES OF ISRAEL 14 Sephardic Orthodox rabbis say Passover Seder can be held via videoconference by Nathan Jeffay March 25, 2020 In what may be one of the boldest rulings issued on technology in recent years, several Sephardic Orthodox rabbis … Continue reading
To be clear, the rockets from Gaza are an effort—even amid their own health crisis—“to destroy Israel and replace it with an Islamic state”
GATESTONE Palestinians: Despite Coronavirus, Jihad Against Israel Continues by Khaled Abu Toameh March 31, 2020 As the world is busy pursuing the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, the Iranian-backed Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) groups in the Gaza Strip … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged coronavirus, Gaza, Hamas, Jihadists, Palestinian Islamic Jihad
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“Coronavirus exposed a truth that global village fans have spent the past generation denying: Borders are important”
ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) Israel and the demise of the global village by Caroline B. Glick March 27, 2020 In the face of the steeply rising number of coronavirus patients and the breakneck speed of political changes in Israel, few people … Continue reading
“This bunker is another tool for managing, controlling, oversight and tracking” the coronavirus, said an Israeli official who requested anonymity”
REUTERS Israeli leaders open up nuclear bunker in war on coronavirus March 26, 2020 The Israeli government has opened up a war bunker in the Jerusalem hills to help coordinate its campaign against the spread of the coronavirus, Israeli officials … Continue reading
Brooklyn: “At funerals, people no longer shoveling dirt on their loved one’s casket—no one, including the gravediggers, were allowed to touch the shovels”
TABLET MAG America’s Largest Population of Holocaust Survivors Is Endangered by the Coronavirus as Crown Heights and Borough Park Shut Down by Armin Rosen March 24, 2020 …Closing a synagogue is no small matter—even in the darkest moments of World … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish
Tagged Borough Park, Brooklyn, coronavirus, Crown Heights
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“The failure of the Chinese Communist Party to protect the world from COVID-19 is likely to reverse China’s recent gains in power and prestige”
THE AMERICAN INTEREST The Geopolitics of the Coronavirus by Michael Mandelbaum March 24, 2020 Throughout history, great wars have overturned the international order, making and breaking entire countries and their political systems while increasing the power and status of some … Continue reading
A solidarity message from Israeli Foreign Ministry to its Arab neighbors: “We are all human beings; we are all brothers”
ALGEMEINER Coronavirus Crisis Brings Israel and Arab World Together, at Least Online by Benjamin Kerstein March 18, 2020 The Israeli Foreign Ministry has been receiving messages of solidarity from across the Arab world as the coronavirus crisis intensifies, including messages … Continue reading
“Teva, the giant Israeli pharmaceutical company, has announced that it will donate more than six million doses of hydroxychloroquine sulfate tablets”
JERUSALEM POST Teva donates potential coronavirus treatment to hospitals across the US by Staff March 21, 2020 …Recently, Israel’s Health Ministry has approved multiple experimental treatments, and companies worldwide are attempting to determine what could be used to treat the … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged chloroquine, coronavirus, FDA, hydroxychloroquine, Teva
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Two from Lipson: “What have these past bureaucratic egregious abuses got to do with CDC, NIH, HHS, and the Wuhan coronavirus? Quite a lot, actually”
REAL CLEAR POLITICS Democracy and Bureaucracy in a Time of Pandemic by Professor Charles Lipson March 19, 2020 As the coronavirus spreads and the Centers for Disease Control work around-the-clock to mitigate the disaster, it’s easy to see why we … Continue reading
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