Daily Archives: April 23, 2015
Palestinian Holocaust Recognition – A Personal Story
Last Thursday I joined the holocaust memorial in Haifa at ‘Yad Ezer l’Chaver’ a non-profit organization, that takes care of 100 needy, holocaust survivors.
This is the first time in my life that I participated...
An ANZAC message from Australia’s ambassador to Israel
J-Wire meets the Australian Ambassador to Israel, Dave Sharma, in Tel Aviv ahead of ANZAC Day.
Michael Kuttner reports from Israel:
It is obvious that Dave Sharma enjoys his ambassadorial duties in a country which in...
An open letter to Cornel West
Judea Pearl is Chancellor’s Professor of Computer Science and Statistics at UCLA and president of the Daniel Pearl Foundation.
Dear Professor West,
This is a humble request sent to you from a rank-and-file Jewish professor at the...
ISRAEL AS A “CATASTROPHE”: EUROPEAN-FUNDED NGOS THAT PROMOTE THE “NAKBA” NARRATIVE
In advance of Israeli Independence Day, NGO Monitor has documented a number of Israeli NGOs (non-governmental organizations) that mourn the establishment of the state of Israel as a “Nakba” (“catastrophe” in Arabic) and actively...
Women in uniform: New immigrants join IDF combat roles
Nina, 23, was born in San Francisco to a Jewish mother and an Iranian father, but she has always dreamed of moving to Israel. Rachael, 20, grew up on a pineapple farm in South...
Iran Rekindles Relations With Hamas
Iran is the leading Shiite protagonist in the increasingly bitter conflict against rival Sunni Muslims in the Arab world, but lately that hasn’t prevented Tehran from rekindling one Sunni alliance. The ayatollahs are rebuilding...
Brandeis Commencement Speaker Leads Iran Cheerleader Squad
All those concerned about the dangers of Iran obtaining the ability to produce nuclear weapons have been closely watching the negotiations between Iran and the U.S. and its partners in the P5+1.
Perhaps no country...
Could Jewish Soldiers Celebrate Passover in Jerusalem in 1918?
In WWI, individual Jewish soldiers served in the ranks of the armies of Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand and were involved in the 1917 battles in locations such as Be'er Sheva and Rishon...