Middle East

Israel wards off looters of antiquity high above the Dead Sea

(AFP) It may be the world’s most unusual anti-theft operation, set in a cave high above a desert canyon, the blue of the Dead Sea visible in the distance. Israeli authorities have been at work at the site, believed to have been used by ancient refugees, seeking to rescue important archaeological remains – possibly including

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Rabbi Sacks explains ‘the new anti-Semitism’

At the height of the UK Labour Party’s anti-Semitism crisis in April, former British Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks penned a blistering critique of anti-Zionism, which he branded “the new anti-Semitism.” In an interview with the BBC on Wednesday, Rabbi Sacks elaborated on why today’s anti-Israel movement is the embodiment of anti-Semitism. “It’s always in

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International, Middle East

Revealed: Corbyn called Israeli politicians ‘criminals’

Newly exposed letters reveal that British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in the past described Israel”s politicians as “criminals,” called for them to be banned from Britain and for trade sanctions to be imposed on the Jewish state. The letters, written by Corbyn before he was elected Labour leader, were released by the UK-based Jewish News

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International, Middle East

Netanyahu: Path to peace is not through conferences

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Wednesday once again criticized the French peace initiative, as Paris prepares to convene a conference of foreign ministers on Friday to discuss the diplomatic stalemate in relations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA). “The path to peace is not via international conferences that attempt to force a settlement, that

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International, Middle East

Mohels warned to get checked for herpes after babies infected

Two babies were hospitalized at Schneider Children’s Hospital in Petach Tikva for being infected with herpes during circumcision, Kikar HaShabbat reports Wednesday night – and a prominent mohel has demanded that fellow mohels get checked for the disease before performing the ceremony. Mohel Rabbi Shlomo Mahfoud told the daily that mohels must “check themselves first

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Jewish Religion, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

UN envoy: Jewish Home ‘killing hope’ of a Palestinian state

The UN’s special coordinator for the Middle East peace process on Wednesday accused the Jewish Home party, a member of the governing coalition, of “killing hope” for a peace treaty with the Palestinian Authority. Nickolay Mladenov spoke after a minister from the Jewish Home party, which holds several portfolios in Netanyahu’s government, declared the party

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International, Middle East

It took this man 10 years to realize he was living in a synagogue

In 1990, Jihad Al-Mohammed moved into an abandoned building in the old city of Sidon in south Lebanon. The Lebanese civil war had just come to end. The Palestinian refugees who had been sheltering in the centuries-old structure had gone. “But it was filled with rats and garbage,” says Mohammed. “So I cleaned it up.”

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Jewish Religion, Middle East