Pondering the state of American Jewry
Yair Lapid, the new alternate prime minister and head of Israel’s Foreign Ministry revealed his upcoming agenda in a handover ceremony on Monday. Lapid described his intention to focus on fixing the relationship between Israel and Diaspora Jewry. He mentioned the various streams of American Jewry: Reform, Conservative, and Orthodox, suggesting that all are of …
The Jerusalem Day flag march, already postponed due to Arab riots, has been permanently canceled, after the organizers requested permission to march through Damascus Gate, in the Old City of Jerusalem. Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz, saw a march through this volatile neighborhood as a provocation, and urged the police to put a stop to …
A new term has been popularized during the most recent attacks on Israel and its response to same: “both siding it.” It means that talking heads diminish a salient fact: terrorists are attacking Israel. The term diminishes the importance of this fact by suggesting that both sides are engaging in violence, when the truth is …
John Oliver is known for being forthright and unapologetic. Which is why the popular comedian probably won’t apologize for blaming Israel for Hamas war crimes. Hamas has fired 3,100+ missiles in Israeli cities populated by large numbers of civilians over the past week. But Oliver reserved his criticism for Israel alone. The segment in question …
The world is furious with Israel for Arab violence in Israel. And all of the talking heads and media outlets, are trumpeting the same erroneous talking points. Sheikh Jarrah is, in reality, the Shimon Hatzadik neighborhood in north Jerusalem. This neighborhood is located near the Shimon Hatzadik Cave and the Nahalat Shimon neighborhood, settled by …
Even though Israel has had remarkable success with its vaccination program against COVID-19, the State Department placed Israel—along with the UK—at level 4 on its no-fly list due to its claim that Israel has a “very high level” of COVID-19 infections. This, despite the fact that Israel has closed all but one of its coronavirus …
Israel’s annual International Bible Quiz for Youth takes place on Israeli Independence Day. This year, both first and second place went to yeshiva students, Gilad Avrahamoff and Dvir Barhad, respectively. Third place was taken by American-born contestant Benjamin Ram. The deciding question was “Who was the first woman to cry?” Barhad gave an incorrect answer, …
The Biden Administration has restored funding to the Palestinian Authority to the tune of $90m, though the PA has done nothing with regard to ending its pay-to-slay policy of incentivizing Jew-murdering terrorists with stipends. Former Israeli Ambassador to Canada Alan Baker, in an editorial for the JPost, says this “reset” is a very bad idea: …
President Biden has pledged to restore aid to the PA as incentive to return to negotiations with Israel. A recent article by the American Center for Law and Justice (AJLC) suggests that such aid may violate the Taylor Force Act (TFA). This important article was co-written by former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, JINSA and …
While the world continues to parrot the lie that Israel is refusing to vaccinate the citizens of the PA and those of Hamas-led Gaza, the PA is claiming that Israel is deliberately killing Arab prisoners with coronavirus. This egregious lie has appeared front and center in an official PA daily op-ed. The title of said …