Posts Tagged: israel
Jewish Author Reflects on ‘Phantom Tollbooth’ Jubilee
Growing up in Brooklyn and going to school in Philadelphia, Jewish author Norton Juster saw and experienced some of the best and biggest of what...
Dr. Seuss and the Holocaust in France
Seventy years ago this week, 15-year-old Annie Kriegel was sitting in her Paris high school classroom, taking an exam, when her mother suddenly burst...
Respectable Memoir, Some Shrewd Manipulation by an East European Government “• or Both?
Review of We Are Here. Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust. By Ellen Cassedy. University of Nebraska Press, 273 pp. Paperback $19.95. What do you do...
The State of the Jews (REVIEW)
The State of the Jews A Critical Appraisal by Edward Alexander Transaction Publishers, 2012. $35 pp. 264 The worrisome state of the Jewish people these days has little...
Painting to the Sound of the Music (VIDEO)
David Asher Brook is a 31 year old artist, living in Sydney Australia with his wife and three children. Growing up, Judaism was a...
Switched at Birth in Gaza?
A reader emailed me about a CBC radio program (originally from Radio Netherlands, link here) he heard recently about Ahmed Masoud, a British writer and...
Bulgaria Terrorist Attack Kills Israeli Tourists (TIMELINE)
A bus explosion at the Burgus Airport in Bulgaria killed a group of Israeli tourists on Wednesday. Below are...
Israel Warned of Bulgaria Terror Threat In January
A bus carrying tourists from Israel exploded at the Burgus Airport in Bulgaria today, with the death toll reaching as high as 7. According to a...
Israel’s Ministry of Finance Has Electricity Shut Off
The electricity at Israel's Ministry of Finance building was shut off by the Israel Electric Corporation today, as demand for electrical power is expected to...
Israel President Wishes Muslim World “Ramadan Kareem” (VIDEO)
The Muslim month of fasting, known as Ramadan, begins on Thursday night, July 19th, and Israeli President Shimon Peres has released a video message wishing...
Golan Heights May Become Another Sinai Due to Lawlessness in Syria
The Golan Heights is becoming a major threat to Israeli security as Syrian President Bashar al-Assad moves his forces from the mountainous area to Damascus,...
“Most Wanted Nazi” Detained in Hungary
Suspected Nazi war criminal Laszlo Csizsik-Csatary was recently found in Budapest, and after calls to arrest Csatary came from the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the man...
IDF Hosts Summer Camp for Palestinian Children With Cancer
Fatah named a summer camp after a terrorist who led an attack that killed 37 Israelis, Palestinian Media Watch reported. Among the victims of Dalal Mughrabi,...
Israeli Lawyer Gets Top UN post
Dr. David Scharia, 43, a former senior official in the Israeli attorney general's office, has been appointed legal coordinator for the executive directorate...
