Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, where the burning of the qurans occured. Photo: DoD. WSJ – Deadly anti-American protests spread across Afghanistan Wednesday as demonstrators armed with guns, iron rods and rocks attacked Afghan government and Western targets, venting their outrage over the burning of copies of the Quran at a U.S. military base. Read More »
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Tonight, ahead of crucial GOP nomination primaries in Michigan and Arizona being held next week, CNN will present yet another GOP Presidential debate in Mesa, Arizona, after a long hiatus in the national debate schedule. Less than a month ago, few envisioned a surge for the former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum. Read More »
Rick Santorum. Photo: wiki commons. During tonight’s Republican debate Rick Santorum will be making his case for the party’s ticket. In the New York area orthodox Jewish community, Santorum’s case has already been made and it’s succeeded. “He’s always been tough on the issues of importance,” a spokesman for Jewspickrick.com said. Read More »
Radio found in Iranian safehouse following botched terrorist operation. Photo: screenshot via DailyMail. The unsuccessful bomb attack in Thailand to injure Israelis, which was planned by Iranian nationals a week ago, has forced Jews and Israelis around the world to keep a watchful eye on their surroundings these days. Read More »
Cover of ‘UNORTHODOX: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots’, written Deborah Feldman and published by Simon and Schuster. Photo: Amazon. Read More »
New York Knicks point guard, Jeremy Lin. Photo: wiki commons. Washington Post – All I can say is I’m ashamed I didn’t think to call Tamir Goodman myself, to ask the former Jewish Jordan what he thinks about the Jeremy Lin phenomenon. Read More »
Members of National Council of Jewish Women Bergen County Section (NCJWBCS) joined with other concerned citizens at a rally in Trenton calling for restoration of the funds removed from women’s health programs and family planning. Photo: www.ncjwbcs.org. Read More »
Antartica. Photo: wiki commons. Chabad has gone where no Jewish movement has gone before: Antarctica. Last Wednesday, Chabad emissary Meir Alfasi set sail from Argentina to Antarctica, heading off, he said, “on a mission from the Rebbe,” Israel Hayom reported. Read More »
Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch aboard the guided missile cruiser USS Lake Champlain. Photo: wiki commons. Politico – Surveying American Jewish public opinion is notoriously difficult, but Ed Koch relies on his own sample: the several hundred emails a week he receives from all over, printed out and laid on his desk by his assistant. Read More »
Attendees at the Kosher Food and Wine Experience. Photo: author. Last week I had the pleasure of attending one of the best wine tasting events of the year, Royal Wine Corporation’s KFWE2012 (Kosher Food & Wine Experience – they could have at least put wine before food). Read More »
idf IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz with IDF soldiers. Photo: wiki commons. In August of 1999, then Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak appointed retired Judge Tzivi Tal to head a public committee aimed at tackling the issue of the ultra-orthodox exemptions from the IDF. Read More »
Rescue services on the scene of Buenos Aires train crash. Photo: CNNews30003 via Youtube BBC – The train slammed into the barrier at the end of the platform at the Once station during the morning rush hour. “We assume that there was some fault in the brakes”, Transportation Secretary JP Schiavi said. Read full story. Read More »
Rick Santorum. Photo: wiki commons. LA Times The last time the four remaining contenders in the GOP presidential race met on a debate stage, all eyes were on Newt Gingrich, who was trying to ride the momentum off his surprise victory in South Carolina. On Wednesday night, the spotlight turns to Rick Santorum. Read More »
India Prime Minister Indira Ghandi (right) with Shah Reza Pahlavi of Iran (center) and Farah Pahlavi (left), during a state visit to India in 1970. Photo: wiki commons. March 17 will be the 43 rd anniversary of Golda Meir’s election as the fourth Prime Minister of Israel. She was Israel’s first and the world’s third female prime minister. Read More »
Basseterre, the capital of the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis in the West Indies. Photo: wiki commons. Justice Stephen Breyer, a member of the liberal wing of the U.S. Supreme Court, has a vacation home on the Caribbean paradise island nation of Saint Kitts and Nevis in the West Indies. Read More »
Sheldon and Miriam Adelson. Photo: wiki commons. Haaretz – American Jewish billionaire businessman Sheldon Adelson told Forbes magazine in an interview that his financial backing of Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is based on more than just Gingrich’s staunch support for Israel. . Read More »
Sheikh Hamad at the Metropolitan Museum (New York). From left to right: The second wife of the emir, Sheikha Mozah, U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama, the Emir, and U.S. President Barack Obama. Photo: wikipedia. Qatar is rising in the Middle East. Read More »
CNN center newsroom. Photo: Altair78. CNN’s decision to fire four Jewish Israeli journalists from the cable network’s Jerusalem bureau earlier this month was due in part to their religion and nationality, and to their perceived inability to operate freely throughout the Middle East, the Algemeiner has learned. Read More »
Synagogue in Athens. Photo: wiki commons. In the wake of the economic drama now playing out in Greece, the annual Commemoration of the Holocaust of Greek Jewry, under the auspices of the Greek Consul-General Georgios Iliopoulos, held February 18 in New York may seem of small consequence. Read More »
Marie Colvin, an American journalist working for the UK based Sunday Times was killed in Homs, Syria on Wednesday as government forces continue to try and crush an opposition demanding the ouster of President Bashar al-Assad. Colvin was no stranger to covering conflicts. In 2001, she lost an eye in Sri Lanka from shrapnel wounds. Read More »
Government tanks in Homs, Syria. The two journalists were killed in Homs, which is a rebel stronghold. Photo: wiki commons. USA Today/AP – A French photojournalist and an American working for a British newspaper were killed Wednesday by Syrian government shelling of the opposition stronghold of Homs, France’s government said. Read More »
A U.S. Coast Guard boat patrols the in New York Harbor by the Statue of Liberty as part of their Homeland Security mission. Photo: wiki commons. Federal law enforcement has amassed an impressive record identifying and interdicting would-be jihadists bent on waging terrorist attacks before they can acquire the means to kill people. Read More »
Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority. Photo: wiki commons. Of all the issues that drive the Arab-Israeli conflict, none is more central, malign, primal, enduring, emotional, and complex than the status of those persons known as Palestine refugees. Read More »
Jakob Kellenberger, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross. Photo: wiki commons. LA Times – Opposition activists reported scores of people killed Tuesday across Syria, including many in a new round of government shelling of the Read More »
IAEA headquarters in Vienna, Austria. Photo: wiki commons. Washington Post – U.N. nuclear officials conceded failure on Tuesday after an extraordinary, two-day visit to Iran yielded no progress in clearing up allegations about the country’s pursuit of nuclear weapons technology. Read More »
CNN center newsroom. Photo: Altair78. It is no secret that major news organizations have been forced to cut staff in recent years in order to adjust to a changing media landscape increasingly driven by the instant flow of information through the internet. Read More »
President Barack Obama delivers the 2012 State of the Union address. Photo: wiki commons. Foreign Policy – President Barack Obama will deliver remarks at the AIPAC conference March 4, one day before he sits down with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, a reprise of the difficult meeting they held there last year. Read More »
U.S. Senator John McCain. Photo: wiki commons. JPost – Just hours after meeting Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, US Senator John McCain (R-AZ) said Tuesday there was “daylight” and “tension” between Jerusalem and Washington over the Iranian issue. Read More »
Aftermath of bomb explosion in Syria. Photo: tempoGold1 via Youtube. CNN – The International Red Cross on Tuesday implored the Syrian regime and others engulfed in fighting to halt so it can distribute help to hungry, frightened and injured civilians. Read More »
President Obama waves hello as he exits of Air Force One. Photo: wiki commons. USA Today – Much is being made today of the paltry fundraising totals for Priorities USA Action, the super PAC supporting President Obama that brought in about $59,000 for January. Read More »
University of Pennsylvania campus. Photo: wiki commons. First came an entire conference dedicated to boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) at the University of Pennsylvania. More recently, the Presbyterian Church approved a report calling for divestment from three companies because of their sales to Israel. Read More »
Supreme Court of Israel in Jerusalem. Photo: wiki commons. The decision by Israel to release Khader Adnan, an admitted member of the terrorist organization Islamic Jihad, in April, has drawn rebuke from a number of Israeli government officials. Read More »
The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index survey conducted 676,080 random telephone interviews with adults aged 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia in order to examine the relationship between religiosity and physical and emotional health. Read More »
“From breast cancer to secret Jewish rituals, hidden links signify unlikely kinships in this meditative exploration of the science of racial connectedness,” read Publisher’s Weekly’s review of “The Wandering Gene and the Indian Princess”. Book Cover. Photo: Barnes and Noble. Read More »
Bottles from Jewish Single Malt Whisky Society. Photo: www.jsmws.com. If you’re an avid Whisky drinker, you might want a membership. Joshua Hatton and Jason Johnstone-Yellin, well known Whisky connoisseurs, have partnered with Seth Klaskin, to form the Jewish Single Malt Whisky Society. “Joshua and I started as Whiskey bloggers. Read More »
Hasidic Jews in Jerusalem. Photo: wiki commons. Though I am not entirely sure why, people seem just plain fascinated by the (supposedly) cloistered communities of black clad Jews who briskly swarm — entourage and side curls in tow — through the streets of Brooklyn, the Diamond District and Old Jerusalem. Read More »
he Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid holding an information session in Vari Hall. Photo: theonlysilentbob. Israel has launched a public diplomacy counterattack in response to Israel Apartheid Week, held by Palestinian sympathizers on university campuses around the world during various periods between Feb. 20 and March 11. Read More »
Natalie Portman at the Los Angeles premiere of “No Strings Attached”. Photo: wiki commons. A 50 foot billboard of Academy Award winning actress Natalie Portman marketing Dior cosmetics has gone up in Lebanon’s capital city of Beirut, and Lebanese bloggers are not thrilled. Read More »
(L-R) Israeli actor Lior Ashkenazi, Israeli director Joseph Cedar, Israeli actor Micah Lewensohn and Israeli actress Yuval Scharf arrive for the screening of “Footnote” during the 64th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, on May 14, 2011. Cedar’s film is up for an Academy Award and debuts in the U.S. on March 9. Photo: EPA/Guillaume Horcajuelo. Read More »
Bloomberg News. Photo: Colegio de Estudios Superiores de Administración With a risk-adjusted return of 7.6 percent over a 10-year period that ended Feb. 19, Tel Aviv’s TA-25 Index represented the safest bet for investors among 24 stock markets in developed countries, according to new data compiled by Bloomberg News . Read More »
Western Wall. Photo: Wayne McLean. The Rabbi of the Western Wall and the Holy Sites of Israel is furious with eBay for reportedly allowing the sale of stones from the sacred wall on its online shopping network, the Jerusalem Post reported. Read More »
A rock thrower. A crowd of Arab youths recently attacked two Israeli Defense Ministry employees with rocks as the employees got stuck in a traffic jam between two Arab drivers, Israel National News reported. Read More »
Sir Isaac Newton. Photo: PD. Israel’s national library has digitized 7,500 pages from Sir Isaac Newton’s theological collection—all in the famous scientist’s own handwriting, the Australian reported. Read More »
Solar panels. Photo: Roto Frank AG. An Israeli company has constructed a gas turbine solar thermal power station in Spain, the I srael National News reported. The station was conducted over seven months and is intended to stay economically viable for 25 years. Read More »
The “checkpoint” set up by LSESU Palestine Society. Photo: elder of ziyon. A wild scene broke out on the campus of London’s School of Economics on Monday. A mock checkpoint, designed to replicate Israeli checkpoints for Palestinians, was set up by LSE’s Student’s Union Palestine Society where people wishing to enter the St. Read More »
Former Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Photo: wiki commons. NY Times – In a rare move for an Arab state where popular dissent worked to unseat a dictator, Yemenis went to polling stations on Tuesday to vote out President Ali Abdullah Saleh after more than a year of antigovernment protests and violent clashes in the street. Read More »
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Photo: wiki commons. The Arab-language Iranian television network, Al-Alam , broadcast a scoop on Feb. 15: Tehran is threatening to suspend oil exports to six European countries. Its decision comes in response to the EU’s embargo on Iranian oil, which was enacted Jan. Read More »
Demonstrator holds up paper in support of Khader Adnan. Photo: wiki commons. Khader Adnan, the Islamic Jihad member currently being held by Israeli security officials under “administrative detention”, had been waging a self imposed hunger strike for 66 days in protest of his detention, and will now be set free in April according to his lawyer. Read More »
Tanks firing at the Syrian city of Homs. Photo: wiki commons. VOA – Activists say Syrian government forces have killed at least 12 people in heavy shelling of a rebel-held district in the flashpoint city of Homs. Activists say at least one child was among the victims in the artillery barrage Tuesday on the neighborhood of Baba Amro. Read More »
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (left) with President Dmitry Medvedev (center) and two ambassadors in Moscow. Photo: wiki commons. The Hindu – Russia has refused to attend a meeting of the Friends of Syria this week accusing the group of scripting a Libya-type scenario for foreign intervention in Syria. Read More »
President Obama talking on the phone in the Oval Office. Photo: wiki commons. Bloomberg – United Nations investigators begin two days of meetings in Iran today, offering Tehran’s government a chance to stem growing speculation the country’s nuclear program will spark a military conflict. Read More »
United Nations in Geneva, home to the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarion Affairs. Photo: wiki commons. Read More »
Cardinal Dolan. Photo: cywhite. Rabbi Elliot J. Cosgrove , Senior Rabbi at Park Avenue Synagogue and the Anti-Defamation League’s Rabbinical Adviser on Interfaith Affairs, traveled to Rome where he attended the Vatican ceremony which elevated New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan to the position of Cardinal. Read More »
Amy Klein performing with her group “Permanent Wave” in Brooklyn. Photo: Amanda Farah via Flickr. Tablet – The brainchild of former Titus Andronicus guitarist Amy Klein, Permanent Wave is three things in one: a “combination between activism, a show-booking entity, and a production company,” says Sophie Weiner, who’s involved in all three. Read More »
Republican Presidential candidate Rick Santorum. Photo: wiki commons. MSNBC – In trying to clarify recent comments from Rick Santorum about President Obama’s “phony theology,” the candidate’s new national press secretary made a gaffe of her own, saying Obama had pursued “radical Islamic policies”. Read More »
Aron Bielski (front and center) in a portrait at Yad Vashem. Photo: wiki commons. The Bielski brothers were made famous by the 2008 film, Defiance , starring Daniel Craig and Liev Schreiber. Read More »
Matisyahu with Luke Weber. Photo: wiki commons. “Sometimes I lay under the moon and I thank God I’m breathin. ‘Then I pray don’t take me soon cause I am here for a reason. ” That is the opening verse of Matisyahu’s hit song, “One Day” and last week it took on a whole new meaning. Read More »
New JINSA Director, Larry Greenfield. Photo: L. Greenfield. After extensive national security and Jewish community involvement, Larry Greenfield takes the reins at the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) during what he calls a “dangerous moment” for America and for the rest of the world. Read More »
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. Photo: wiki commons. Politico – There are growing calls for an alternative to Mitt Romney as the Republican standard-bearer, with the names of Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie again being seen as the most likely saviors. Read More »
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