Tag: Cities

Fans of the Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer team who flew on El Al rescue flight from Amsterdam arrive to the arrivals hall of the Ben-Gurion International Airport in Israel on Nov. 8, 2024. Photo by Jonathan Shaul/Flash90.

The Amsterdam pogrom is what happens when the world tolerates antisemitism

Much like the reaction to the Hamas massacre of 1,200 Israelis on Oct. 7, 2023, it didn’t take long for some in the media and on the anti-Israel left to try to flip the...

Day Before Biden Admin Announced It Would Withhold Weapons From Israel, It Issued Sanctions...

Less than a day before the Biden administration announced its intent to cut off U.S. arms sales to Israel, it issued a sanctions waiver to bypass congressional prohibitions on arms sales to a host...

Hezbollah targets Tel Aviv in volley to central Israel

Rocket sirens sounded across central and northern Israeli communities in cities including Tel Aviv, Netanya, Ramat Gan, Herzliya and others. Alarms also sounded in cities located in the Upper Galilee region and Nahariya. According...

Dilemmas

We are faced with a situation in which difficult choices have to be made. The story of creation which we read in Synagogues last week tells us in the first few sentences that the world...

Interior Ministry suspends ties with Haaretz after publisher’s controversial Gaza war speech

The Interior Ministry announced Thursday it would suspend all cooperation and advertising with the Haaretz newspaper following controversial remarks made by the paper's publisher, Amos Schocken, at a conference in London where he criticized Israeli policies...

Days of judgment

One of the prayers recited during Rosh Hashanah services deals with what may lie ahead in the year to come. Michael Kuttner We are reminded at this time of the year that our lives are fleeting...

Palestinian Authority education: No room for a two-state solution

The current war in the Middle East often leads policymakers to think of a two-state solution as a panacea for peace. However, Palestinian Authority texts feature three fundamentals which belie any possibility of peace: 1. Delegitimization of...

Oct. 7 forever altered the global Jewish existence

For nearly a century, Jews in places like America, Canada, Great Britain and Australia took for granted their connection to and comfort within their homes and nations. Even if antisemitism still dwelt at the...
A public bomb shelter where Israelis were murdered at the Oct. 7 massacre one year ago, on a road near the Israeli-Gaza border in southern Israel, Sept. 19, 2024. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.

The real lessons of Oct. 7 must not be ignored

The first anniversary of the Oct. 7 Hamas massacres in southern Israel adds yet another sacred date to a calendar already filled with those devoted to mourning tragedies in Jewish history. But the fresh...

Britain’s response to October 7 has been shameful

What do you say? What do you say to a bereaved father who waits, broken- hearted, for the head of his murdered son to be returned by his killers? What do you say to a...