Middle East

Hamas’ use of children as human shields denounced

LOS ANGELES (Press Release) — After recently released footage from the Israel/Gaza border confirms the use of children as human shields by Hamas during so-called ‘March of Return,’ The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a leading Jewish Human Rights NGO, is urging United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to denounce the cynical and dangerous child abuse by Hamas that […]

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International, Middle East, USA

60 deaf students join joint bar/ bat mitzvah rites

JERUSALEM (Press Release) — Sixty deaf and hearing impaired young adults from all over Israel participated in the annual Bar/Bat Mitzvah celebration ceremony organized by the International Young Israel Movement (IYIM) on May 7 in the Beit Yaakov Synagogue in Jerusalem. This event was held in cooperation with Acha (The Association of the Deaf in

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Jewish Religion, Middle East

AIPAC applauds progress of Israel Security bill

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — AIPAC applauds the House Foreign Affairs Committee for adopting the U.S.-Israel Security Assistance Authorization Act of 2018 (H.R. 5141), which seeks to ensure that Israel has the means to defend itself, by itself, against growing threats—most significantly Iran’s presence on its northern border. This bipartisan legislation authorizes agreed-upon increases in Israel’s

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Middle East, USA

Trump’s decision will have serious adverse results

By Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK — The decertification of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) by Trump is most unfortunate. It seems that Trump was not swayed by either France’s President Macron or Germany’s Chancellor Merkel to preserve the deal. Instead, he appears to have taken Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s advice to decertify the

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Alon Ben-Meir, International, Middle East, USA

President Trump pulls the plug on Iran deal

WASHINGTON, D.C. (SDJW)– President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced that the United States was withdrawing from the multinational agreement (JCPOA) with Iran that was intended to curb that nation’s march toward nuclear weapon production.   Following are his speech plus a position paper issued by the White House in support of the President’s decision.  At the

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International, Middle East, USA

Mayim Bialik honored at JCT event

JERUSALEM (Press Release) — Friends of Jerusalem College of Technology, which rallies support for an academic institution that is at the forefront of empowering women in Israeli society, Sunday night featured “Big Bang Theory” star actress Mayim Bialik as the keynote speaker at its New York City gala dinner. Over 400 people gathered at Lincoln

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Israel and bike racing: A new love affair

By Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — The second greatest bike race was replete with significance in 2018. One man deservedly garnered praise for bringing the Giro d’Italia, a cycling race with a 110-year history, to Israel, the first time it has started outside of Europe. Sylvan Adams is an Israeli-Canadian real estate investor with a

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Barry Shaw, International, Middle East, Sports & Competitions

Zionism, diplomacy, and God’s covenant in new book

By Edwin Black NEW YORK — For decades, Rabbi Yotav Eliach, esteemed principal of Rambam Mesivta High School in Long Island, has accumulated his teachings, writings, and those of many other scholars and rabbinical authorities, tracking the history of Israel. His mission was not just to chronicle the dispossession and repossession of a people, as

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Edwin Black, Middle East

Some sunscreen lotions seen as unsafe for coral

BEER-SHEVA, Israel (Press Release) — A team of researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev(BGU), and the United States provided significant evidence that sunscreen ingredient oxybenzone (BP3) causes coral bleaching at sites in Hawaii, Eilat, Israel, and the Caribbean, leading to a ban which passed Thursday in the Hawaii state legislature, Under the new legislation, which

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA