Posts Tagged: Jewish
Hamas Improves Rocket Capabilites After Successful Test Launch
Hamas's military wing recently test-fired a rocket into the Sinai Peninsula from the neighboring Gaza Strip, Israel Hayom reported, citing Egyptian media outlets. The...
Statehood Bid at UN May Cost Palestinian Authority U.S. Aid
Palestinian Authority (PA) official Khaled Mesmar recently said the U.S. has "threatened to cut off financial aid to the Palestinian Liberation Office in...
Egypt’s Copts Shun Clinton Over Meeting With Islamists
Amid the Muslim Brotherhood's rise to power in Egypt, several Coptic Christian leaders in Egypt are refusing to meet with U.S. Secretary of...
Jerusalem YMCA Refuses to Display Israeli Flag
Organizers of a summer camp at the Jerusalem International YMCA refused to include an Israeli flag with a collection of national flags from...
Where Hebrew is Leading the Way
Preserving scholarship, digitizing Hebrew text, and dramatically increasing access to archived scholarly materials written in Hebrew. Those are all likely outcomes following the...
Is Israel the Winner of the Arab Spring?
Israelis understandably feel imperiled by the misnamed "Arab Spring." Their country's three-decade peace treaty with Egypt is under assault, its strategic alliance with...
The Jewish Hamptons
The villages of Westhampton Beach, Southampton, Bridgehampton, East Hampton and Sag Harbor, all located along the Atlantic shore on the east end of...
Fifty Shades of…
I was thinking of writing a bestselling novel called Fifty Shades of Black about a young Hasidic man in Williamsburg who decides to buy a...
Is Mahmoud Abbas Facing a Revolution?
In one of the lesser-reported stories from the Middle East, Palestinians are out in the streets ostensibly to protest the Palestinian Authority's plan...
Cuba’s China Card and Pan-Islamism in Latin America
A real sweet deal last week featuring interest-free loans between China and Cuba is redoubling the influence of president Hu Jintao in Latin America and...
Iran’s Central Demand in Negotiations
The main theme raised by Iranian negotiators during the talks with the P5+1 in Moscow last month was their claim that they...
Higgs Boson and God
In 1964 the physicist Peter Higgs suggested that there had to be a crucial particle (a boson) that helped explain how matter could emerge...
Algerian Minister Takes Heat Over Invitation to Pro-Israeli Singer
Enrico Macias has been invited back to his native Algeria to perform, however the government minister who invited him is facing backlash for the invitation...
Jewish Lord Appointed as Head of Supreme Court in UK
David Neuberger, also known as Lord Neuberger in the United Kingdom, has been confirmed as the next head of the Supreme Court in the UK. Educated...
