Posts Tagged: Jews
Dustin Hoffman Saves A Life in Hyde Park
Legendary actor Dustin Hoffman is being credited with saving the life of a 27 year old lawyer in London's Hyde Park recently. Hoffman, who owns a...
President Obama Does a Bin Laden End Zone Dance
What a difference one year makes. Last year I praised President Obama for not wanting to 'spike the football' by releasing gruesome death photos of...
Israel Elections Cancelled, Likud to Form Unity Government with Kadima
Cancelling plans for early elections in Israel, the country's two largest political parties Likud and Kadima approved a deal to form a national unity government...
Senior Hamas Official: Palestinians Don’t Come from Palestine
Hamas Minister of Interior and National Security, Fathi Hammad recently said that Palestinians actually came from Egypt, Yemen and Saudi Arabia. In an interview he...
10 Toughest Jewish Characters in Film and Theater
"The Avengers" hit theaters this weekend in what turned out to be the biggest film opening of all time, taking in over $200 million at...
The Meaning of Sunday’s European Elections
Sunday's elections results in six European countries, particularly France, Greece and Germany, bode poorly for satisfactorily resolving the European Union's ongoing financial and political crisis. Moreover,...
Chilean Jews Welcome New Law, 7 Years in the Making
That is how Agosin, president of the Comunidad Judaia de Chile (Jewish community of Chile), described his state of mind at the 2012 Global...
America’s First Female Rabbi: 40 Years Later
Rabbi Sally Priesand, America's first seminary-ordained female rabbi, decided at age 16 to pursue her calling. "I always wanted to be a teacher of whatever was...
What Francois Hollande Means for French Jews
In France, the election results are in—but what do they mean for the local Jewish community? Francois Hollande of the Socialist Party defeated incumbent president ...
U.S. House Sets Record $947 Million for Israeli Missile Defense
The U.S. House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee has appropriated nearly $1 billion for Israel's multi-layer missile defense systems, including the Arrow system and the state of...
Gold Medal Rower Sings Israeli National Anthem at Award Ceremony (VIDEO)
Israeli rower Moran Samuel sang Hatikvah, the Jewish state's national anthem, after she won a gold medal at last month's international rowing competition for disabled...
Ambassador to U.S. “Shocked” by American Jewish Support for Israeli Boycotts
The divide separating American and Israeli Jews is growing, Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren said on Sunday, adding that the unity of...
British Airways Celebrates 80 Years of Tel Aviv Travel
British Airways is celebrating 80 consecutive years of flights from London to Tel Aviv. The London-Israel route was originally established in 1932 by Imperial Airways,...
Palestinian Journalist Blames Radical Islam for Toulouse Murders
Reacting to March's Toulouse murders, in which a Muslim extremist shot and killed three Jewish children and a rabbi, a Palestinian journalist has written that...
