Posts Tagged: Jews
Republicans Urge Romney to Visit Israel Before 2012 Election (VIDEO)
Republican leaders in Washington are in favor of presidential candidate Mitt Romney making a trip to Israel before U.S. elections in November, something President Obama...
Major Jewish Charity CEO Steps Down
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) Executive Vice President and CEO Steven Schwager will step down as CEO by June 30 and completely retire from...
Arab Rioters Hurl Stones at Tomb of Rachel Worshippers
One of the holiest sites in the Jewish religion was temporarily shut down on Monday, just south of Jerusalem in the West Bank, after masked...
Hezbollah Can Strike Targets in Tel Aviv, Warns Nasrallah
Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah said May 11 that his Lebanon-based terrorist group was capable of striking any target in Israel, declaring that "the days when...
Norman Finkelstein: The BBC Legitimizes a Crank
The BBC has a strange set of editorial guidelines. According to a leaked memo sent to BBC staff by the network's senior manager, Abu Qatada...
Anti-Israel Norman Finkelstein on BBC’s Hardtalk Claims American Jews are Deserting Israel (VIDEO)
Norman Finkelstein continued his ongoing criticism of Israel in a recent appearance on the BBC's Hardtalk program. He started off by saying that surveys show...
Documenting ‘Hourly’ Arab Terror
When Yehudit Tayar's weekly email arrives in my inbox, I feel a sensation of dread in the pit of my stomach. While I enjoy hearing...
Palestinian Authority Rejects Netanyahu’s Proposal to Renew Peace Talks
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas rejected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's offer to resume negotiations without preconditions on Sunday, prolonging the impasse in the peace process, Israel...
Where the Wild Things Were
Where will the wild things go now? More than children's literature lost out with the death of Maurice Sendak, a world-famous artist and...
One Year Later: The Case of Yanky Ostreicher, Held in Bolivia Without Charge
Yanky Ostreicher , an American-Jewish citizen from New York state was arrested in Bolivia nearly one year ago and has been held by federal authorities...
New Brooklyn Gallery Features $175,000 Hassidic Art
A new fine art gallery in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn will display work by Hassidic artists. Although the Betzalel Gallery will focus on...
Israeli Medical Advances to Showcase at BioMed 2012
Tel Aviv will be hosting the BioMed 2012 conference May 21-23 to display advancements in the biotechnology industry, including in stem-cell research. Sixty...
Israeli Could Become World Chess Champion
Boris Gelfand, originally from Belarus, could become the first Israeli to win the World Chess Federation championship. He will attempt to defeat the...
How Not To Succeed
The Economist of May 5th has a fascinating piece on why the Mormons, a relatively small USA religious sect, with a very strange history,...
