Posts Tagged: israel
Keith Ellison’s Views on Israel Reflect the Democrats’ True Colors
JNS.org -- Haim Saban is wrong when he says Minnesota’s US Rep. Keith Ellison is unqualified to head the Democratic National Committee. Ellison’s anti-Israel and antisemitic...
A Two-State Reality Check
JNS.org - What happens in Ramallah this week could have a major impact on the prospects for Israeli-Palestinian peace -- as 1,400 Fatah party members have...
Netanyahu: Israel Will Respond Forcefully to ISIS Border Threat
JNS.org - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel will not allow any radical jihadist group to get a foothold on the Jewish state's borders and that attempts...
Wives of Firefighters Recount Anxiety, Fear for Husband’s Lives During Days of Battling Blazes Across Israel
The wives of three members of Israel's Fire and Rescue Services, who spent the last several days terrified for the lives of their husbands as...
The Messy Process of Democracy
All complex societies are fragmented. Democracies particularly so. Dictatorships and autocracies act as if they are not. They try to suppress dissenters, which they can...
Netanyahu Calls Arson Attacks ‘Terror in Every Way’
JNS.org -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that any of the fires plaguing northern and central Israel this week found to be the work...
Work Begins in Israel on World’s First Underground Blood Bank
JNS.org - For most organizations, moving underground would be an ominous decision. For Israel’s national blood services center, it’s an exciting one. November 16 marked the groundbreaking for Israel’s...
Israeli Bill Sparks Debate About Mosques’ Calls to Prayer
JNS.org -- A controversial bill to limit the volume of Muslim calls to prayer from mosques across Israel pits freedom of religious expression against the right to...
What ‘Pro-Palestinian’ Really Means
On two separate occasions this year, Jewish students have been subjected to harassment and physical intimidation at London universities. At a meeting last week, I...
Alan Dershowitz: Assessing the Bannon Appointment
President-elect Donald Trump’s appointment of Steve Bannon as his chief strategist has been criticized on the grounds that Bannon is an antisemite. There are many...
Hundreds Gather in Russia for Largest-Ever Limmud FSU Jewish Education Confab
JNS.org -- More than 650 people recently gathered in St. Petersburg, Russia, for the largest-ever conference in that city hosted by Limmud FSU, a decade-old international Jewish...
Shin Bet Arrests Terror Suspects Over Plot to Attack Israeli Troops
JNS.org -- Eight Palestinians from the West Bank and an east Jerusalem resident were arrested on suspicion of involvement in terrorist activities and of planning to carry out attacks...
Home Sweet Home: From Amona to Shiloh
Like Jarndyce v. Jarndyce in Charles Dickens’ Bleak House, the legal saga of some fifty families in the Jewish outpost of Amona “drones on.” Founded...
How Diaspora Jews Can Help Israel Today
It is 1948. The state of Israel is born. The new country requires help. World Jewry and other friends spring into action. Military volunteers sign...
