Judaism
“Hanukkah”: An Anti-Greek Blood Libel
Separating Fact From Fiction
By Joseph Jordan
5 Jan 2024
British historicist Arnold Toynbee once described Judaism as a unique aberration within the human experience. Fossilized in...
Facing the regional challenges and peculiarities of our national struggle
By Marwan Emil Toubassi*
After nearly three months of boasting and Israeli confidence in their occupying forces' ability to achieve victory and crush the Palestinian...
Israeli politician calls for captured Palestinians to be ‘buried alive’
Far-right deputy mayor of Jerusalem describes arrested Palestinians in Gaza as 'subhuman' and invokes biblical reference
Dec 8, 2023
The deputy mayor of Jerusalem, Aryeh Yitzhak...
Kissinger, Jews and Israel
Henry Kissinger gives exclusive interview weeks before his death
Influential Jewish-American statesman and geopolitical expert Henry Kissinger recalled the drama behind the Yom Kippur War,...
La célébration de Hanouka à l’Elysée
Les faits
Dans la soirée du 7 décembre, à l’Elysée, le chef de l’État recevait le prix annuel Lord Jakobovits de la Conférence des rabbins...
Javier Milei’s Embrace of Jewish Orthodoxy Reshapes Argentina’s Political Landscape
Dec 6, 2023
Argentina’s newly elected president, Javier Milei, has been embracing Jewish Orthodoxy as an integral part of his ultraconservative ideology, a move that...
We’re a Small Arkansas Newspaper. Why Is the State Making Us...
By Alan Leveritt*
Nov. 22, 2021
At The Arkansas Times, a publication I founded 47 years ago, our pages focus on small-scale local issues, like protecting...
Israel Loses Its Best
by Lawrence Davidson
June 10, 2020
Emigration
In 2012 the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported on a poll suggesting that at least one-third of Israelis would consider emigrating abroad if the...
Netanyahu is not the Disease, he is a Symptom
By Gilad Atzmon
March 25, 2019
In a recent thought-provoking article Gideon Levy, probably one of the last genuine Israeli voices for peace, claims that “It is not Netanyahu...
Ivanka Trump says her father will move US embassy to Jerusalem...
Ivanka Trump, who converted to Judaism in 2010 and is married to a Jewish man, called her father, the Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, an “unbelievable champion” for the State of Israel and for the Jewish people during a talk on Thursday at The Shul of Bal Harbour in Surfside, Florida, the Jewish Insider reported. “You won’t be dissapointed,” she told the audience during the talk, which was filmed in part.