Posts Tagged: israel
Israel and American Jewry: A Call for Unity and Dialogue
JNS.org - Charles Dickens had it right: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” Seventy-one years following its independence, the Jewish...
Slowing Down on Shabbat in the Age of Social Media
JNS.org - “We’ve been sacrificing the important on the altar of the urgent for so long that our lives have lost their balance and we...
Pompeo Vows US Support for Israel in Event of War With Iran
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Thursday that Israel can “certainly count on the United States of America” in the event of a war...
Chutzpah: How Israel Became a Hub of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
“It’s impossible,” is not an expression heard in Israel, or one written in Inbal Arieli’s new book, Chutzpah: Why Israel Is a Hub of Innovation...
Anti-LGBT Discrimination Is Now Official PA Policy
JNS.org - After Palestinian LGBT organization al-Qaws announced that it had held a gathering in the West Bank city of Nablus earlier this month to...
BBC ‘Homemade’ Palestinian Weapons Return to News Reporting
Back in November 2012, a BBC TV presenter told viewers that Hamas was "only" firing “home-made contraptions” at Israeli civilians. We wrote about that here:...
Israeli Actions in Lebanon a ‘Declaration of War,’ President Aoun Says
Lebanese President Michel Aoun on Monday called recent Israeli actions in his country's territory “a declaration of war.” On Sunday, a drone crashed in a Hezbollah...
Israeli Highway to Automatically Weigh Trucks as They Drive
CTech - Israel intends to automatically weigh trucks traveling on Highway 6, the country’s longest road, according to one person familiar with the matter who...
Fresh Israeli Drone Strikes Hit Palestinian Military Position in Lebanon: Group
Israeli drone strikes hit a military position belonging to an Iranian-backed Palestinian terrorist faction in Lebanon's Bekaa valley near the Syrian border early on Monday,...
War Monitor Says Two Hezbollah Members, One Iranian Killed in Damascus Strikes Overnight
War monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said two members of Lebanon's Hezbollah group and one Iranian were killed in Israeli strikes around the...
Another Academic Threat to Israel
JNS.org - Many in the Jewish community have been basking over the recent success of having the California Department of Education cancel its proposed, highly...
Rashida Tlaib’s ‘Calming Feeling’
I must admit that I was probably wrong when I suggested that the Tlaib/Omar Israel fiasco was likely just a light thunderstorm that would quickly...
PBS Distorts the Truth About Gaza Violence
For more than a year, Palestinians have violently clashed with Israeli soldiers guarding the Gaza border. The clashes first erupted in March, 2018, originally spun by...
Banning Tlaib and Omar: Israel’s Self-Inflicted Black Eye
JNS.org - In the aftermath of Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s rejection of Israel’s offer to visit her ailing grandmother, it’s important to step back and...
