Posts Tagged: israel
Israeli UN Envoy Downplays White House Rebuke on Settlements
JNS.org -- Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon has downplayed the Trump administration's recent criticism of new Israeli settlement construction. Danon told Israel Radio on Friday morning...
The Disgrace of Israel’s Chief Rabbinate
The Israeli Chief Rabbinate and some of our halachic authorities seem to have taken a path that results in causing people great pain and suffering, thereby...
A Trip Across Israel Shows How Vulnerable the Country Is
On a trip to Israel in 2007, my friends and I drove across the entire width of pre-1967 Israel -- from the security barrier at...
What It’s Like When Jerusalem Goes on Strike
It's been a hard week to be a father of young children in Jerusalem. Public day care centers across Israel's capital have been shut for three days and...
Canadian Trade School Retracts Policy Rejecting Israeli Students Following Jewish Community Uproar
A Canadian trade school has retracted its policy of rejecting students based on their Israeli nationality, following major blowback from the local Jewish community. The change by the Island School of...
Fictional Hebron
A trio of Californian-American-Jewish novelists, whose religion is liberalism, have recently discovered the ancient biblical city of Hebron. But they demonstrate little fondness for the city...
Now That Trump Is in the White House, Can Israel Seize the Moment?
"There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound...
Trump Prepares Order to Slash US Funding for International Bodies That Give Palestinian Authority, PLO Full Membership
The Trump administration is preparing executive orders that would clear the way to drastically reduce the United States’ role in the United Nations and other...
When the Islamists Are Gone, Israel and Iran Will Let Off Steam Again — on the Soccer Field
May 19, 1968 -- the day Iran and Israel faced off in a major international event -- seems to have been mostly forgotten in the Jewish state. Yet...
Plans to Build Artificial Island Off Gaza Coast Outlined by Israeli Transportation Minister
JNS.org -- Israel’s transportation minister presented ambitious regional plans to the security cabinet Sunday, including a proposal to build an artificial island off the coast of...
In Inaugural Benediction, Rabbi Marvin Hier Cites Psalm Remembering Zion and Jerusalem
The first orthodox Rabbi to give benediction at a US presidential inauguration cited a psalm highlighting Jerusalem at Friday's ceremony. Rabbi Marvin Hier -- the 77-year-old founder and...
Palestinian Fatah Rally Honored Terrorists, Featured Young Girl Glorifying Violence
JNS.org -- At a recent rally held by the Palestinian Authority's ruling Fatah political party, “plaques of glory and honor” were presented to the relatives of two terrorists and...
Israeli Authorities Catch Band of Antiquities Thieves In The Act
JNS.org -- Inspectors from the Israel Antiquities Authority and Israeli Border Police apprehended a band of 11 antiquities thieves this week who they caught in the...
Donald Trump Tells Son-In-Law: ‘If You Can’t Bring Mideast Peace, No One Can’
One day prior to his inauguration, President-elect Donald Trump made an appearance at a candlelight dinner for donors in Union Station on Thursday, promising "four...
