Israel

New iPhone and Android Apps Released by Leket Israel to Benefit Israel's Poor

Submitted by Rabbi Jason Miller on Wed, 02/08/2012 - 09:44
Leket Israel releases new apps on Tu Bishvat to donate leftover food

It's too bad that the new movie "The Lorax" (an adaptation of Dr. Seuss' classic tale) won't be released for another month because today is the birthday of the trees!

Read more »
Read more:

Scenes from a Village: The Ugly Truth about the Israeli Occupation

Submitted by Eric Herschthal on Tue, 02/07/2012 - 18:02

When Israel conquered the West Bank in 1967, virtually no Jews lived there.  Most had fled their homes after Jews had been massacred by a group of marauding Arabs in 1929.  But now that Israelis are in control of certain cities--notably Hebron, home of the tomb of Abraham--things have gone terribly awry. A new and essential report in the New York Review of Books shows what a disaster the Israeli occupation has become.

Read more »
Read more:

Philadelphia Jewish Exponent Blasts BDS Group For Barring Reporter

02/05/2012
JTA

Philadelphia’s Jewish newspaper is in a flap with organizers of a boycott, divestment and sanctions conference over the disinvitation of one of its reporters from the event.

Philadelphia’s Jewish Exponent published an article on its website Friday reporting that organizers of the National BDS Conference had barred the paper from covering the Feb. 3-5 conference at the University of Pennsylvania -- a charge that a conference organizer denied.

Read more »
Read more:

Israel, Iran And The Bomb

01/31/2012

The rhetoric and reporting around whether Israel, with or without U.S. involvement, will take military action against Iran this year, is ratcheting up. But that doesn’t make the conclusions any more clear. In fact, based on past history, when Israel takes military action it does so swiftly, suddenly and with no previous drumbeating in the press, as in the successful attacks on the nuclear reactor facilities in Iraq in 1981, and in Syria in 2009.

Read more »
Read more:

Huh?, an Israeli "West Wing"?

Submitted by Eric Herschthal on Fri, 01/27/2012 - 13:15

With a name like “The Prime Minister’s Cabinet,” you’d think this television show was yet another British drama, a “Downton Abbey” sequel starring, say, Winston Churchill.  But it’s not—no, it has nothing to do with Brits, but with, of all things, Israelis.  Yes, in a culture story today, The New York Times devotes a full piece to an obscure Israeli political drama, made for T.V., that even critics in Isra

Read more »
Read more:

Israel Congratulates Egypt On New Parliament

01/27/2012

JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Israel congratulated Egypt on the inauguration of its new parliament, the first in the post-Mubarak era.

"On the occasion of the opening session of the Egyptian parliament, on Jan. 23, Israel extends its congratulations to the people of Egypt for its efforts to achieve freedom, democracy and economic development," Israel's Foreign Affairs Ministry said in a statement issued Wednesday.

Read more »
Read more:

The Oscars and Me: On "Pina" and Other Hopefuls

Submitted by Eric Herschthal on Wed, 01/25/2012 - 17:07

From a Jewish point of view, the Oscar nominees announced this week gave a lot to be excited about.  There was Israeli filmmaker Joseph Cedar’s nomination for best foreign film, with “Footnote,” about an intellectual feud between father and son, both Talmudic scholars.  There was “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close,” an adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel about 9/11.  And there was “In Darkness,” another nomination for best

Read more »
Read more:

Israeli Planes Attack Gaza Sites

01/24/2012

JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Israel's Air Force attacked terrorist sites in the Gaza Strip.

The targets hit after midnight on Monday night included a weapons manufacturing site in central Gaza, two terror tunnels in northern Gaza, and a third terror tunnel in southern Gaza, according to the Israel Defense Forces.

The attacks were in response to several rockets fired at southern Israeli communities in recent days, the IDF said. Six rockets have been fired into southern Israel from Gaza in the last week.

Read more »
Read more:

State Dept. Condemns Killing Of Iran Scientist

01/13/2012
JTA

The Obama administration condemned an attack in Tehran that killed a nuclear scientist, and Iran threatened Israel with revenge.

Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, 32, was killed Wednesday when a bomb placed on his car by a motorcyclist exploded. Roshan reportedly was a supervisor at the Natanz uranium enrichment facility, in addition to being a professor at Tehran's technical university.

"We condemn any assassination or attack on an innocent person, and we express our sympathies to the family," Victoria Nuland, the State Department spokeswoman, said Wednesday.

Read more »
Read more:

Iran Blames Israel For Another Nuclear Scientist's Death

01/11/2012
JTA

Iranian officials are blaming Israel for an attack in Tehran that killed a nuclear scientist.

Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, 32, was killed Wednesday when a bomb placed on his car by a motorcyclist exploded. Roshan reportedly was a supervisor at the Natanz uranium enrichment facility, in addition to being a professor at Tehran's technical university.

Read more »
Read more:
Syndicate content