Joshua Levitt
ARTICLES BY: Joshua Levitt
Beirut Synagogue to Remain Closed Despite Renovation for Lack of Benches, Rabbi
Beirut's Maghen Abraham Synagogue was nearly destroyed during the country's civil war and despite a nearly complete five-year, $5 million renovation, the Lebanese Muslim lawyer, the...
Bnei Menashe Couple Reunite Upon Arrival in Israel After 7 Years Apart
Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion International Airport was the site of a heartwarming reunion on Thursday as 40 Bnei Menashe Jews from Manipur, India, including a...
Israeli Ballistics Expert Casts Doubt Over Bullet Claimed to Be Found in Bitunia Shootings
As the Israeli government continues to investigate what really happened in Bitunia, where edited security camera footage showed two Palestinian Arabs dying from off-screen fire,...
Message Board Shows Modern Language Association Academics Based Israel Boycott on Anti-Semitic Tropes
Academics at the Modern Language Association were lambasted on Wednesday in an Op-Ed in The Chronicle of Higher Education after an online message board revealed anti-Semitic...
Watchdog Slams TED Talks for Promoting ‘Malicious Libel’ Against Israel
CAMERA, the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, on Wednesday slammed the TED Talks seminars group for promoting a "malicious libel" by...
Man Shouts ‘Heil Hitler’ at London Kosher Restaurant; Judge Calls Act ‘Outrageous, Profoundly Insulting, Threatening’
A drunk Slovakian restaurant worker walked up to a kosher restaurant in London on Holocaust Remembrance Day, performed a Nazi salute and shouted "Heil Hitler," and...
Survivor Recounts 1972 PFLP-Red Army Terror Attack at Tel Aviv’s Lod Airport
Ros Sloboda, a wounded survivor of the 1972 terror attack at Israel's Lod airport in Tel Aviv said, "I was just waiting for the next bullet...
University of Washington Anti-Israel Divestment Resolution Defeated in Lopsided Vote
An anti-Israel student senate resolution at the University of Washington that called for school administrators to divest from companies perceived "to directly maintain, support, or...
Israel Ministerial Committee Approves Plan to Double Chinese Exports to $5 Billion
The Israeli Ministerial Committee on China Affairs, chaired by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on Tuesday night approved a plan to double bilateral trade with China...
Muslim Brotherhood’s Badie in Egypt Court: ‘We Fought Only Against The Jews’ (VIDEO)
Mohammad Badie, the 'General Guide' of the Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo, rejected accusations brought against him and other members of the movement, telling judges in...
Jews Implicated by Pro-Erdoğan Turkish Newspaper for Coal Mine Disaster
Turkey's pro-government daily Yeni Akit sought to implicate Jews in the country's recent Soma coal mine disaster that left over 300 dead, Turkish daily Hurriyet reported on Wednesday. The paper blasted...
Israel Diaspora Ministry Creates Animated Film to Argue Against Iranian Nuclear Weapons Capability (VIDEO)
Israel's Ministry of Diaspora Affairs on Tuesday released an animated film, explaining the risk the world runs if the currently proposed agreement between Iran and world...
Iran Insists Demands Must Be Met, Says No Rush to Conclude Nuke Agreement by July Deadline
The Iranian Foreign Ministry tried to manage expectations surrounding the ongoing negotiations with world powers over its nuclear program, with a spokeswoman warning the West...
Alcatel-Lucent to Open New Bell Labs Research Center in Israel
Israel was chosen by French network-equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent as the site for a new Bell Labs research center, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday. Bell Labs is known as the Nobel-prize-winning...
