Hagel Coming to Israel Bearing Lots of (Sort of) Gifts

Posted on: April 21st, 2013

When Chuck Hagel leaves the region, he will have explained how Israel can afford to spend even more billions of dollars.

Kibbutz Women

Posted on: April 21st, 2013

Here are a bunch of kibbutz women filling up saltshakers, sometime between 1920 and 1940. The original caption for this image read: “Kibbutz women canning sardines.” But I don’ think these are sardines they’re pouring into those saltshakers, or the whole kibbutz would be up in arms. I spent a few minutes looking online for [...]

Midnight Rockets

Posted on: April 21st, 2013

Things that go boom in the night.

Israeli Airlines Grounded on Day 1 of Anti ‘Open Skies’ Policy

Posted on: April 21st, 2013

An internal report predicts the collapse of El-Al.

Marathon Suspect #1 Caught

Posted on: April 20th, 2013

An alert Watertown resident found the wanted man.

Boston Bombing Suspect Arrested

Posted on: April 19th, 2013

UPDATE, 8:25 PM  Sat. night Israel Time: Federal terrorism charges against Boston Marathon bombings suspect Dzhokar Tsarnaev could be filed soon, even as he remains hospitalized, a Justice Department official told CNN on Saturday. The 19-year-old could also face murder charges at the state level. UPDATE 7:12 pm ET Reports that suspect was hiding in boat, [...]

King David Era Find ‘Buried’ by Authorities for Political Reasons

Posted on: April 19th, 2013

Soon the area will be handed over to the PA.

Samaritan High Priest Dies (87)

Posted on: April 19th, 2013

Samaritan High Priest Aharon Ben Av-Hisda died in his home in Mount Grizim on Friday.

Boston Marathon Suspect Killed

Posted on: April 19th, 2013

Second suspect sought after Watertown explosions, gunfire.

New Chief Rabbi Appointment Pitting Bennett Against Lapid

Posted on: April 19th, 2013

Yesh Atid opposes both the Jewish Home candidate and the tricky legislation his appointment would require.

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UN Rebukes Assad, Rebels, Equally for Millions Suffering in Syria

Posted on: April 19th, 2013

6.8 million needy, 4.25 million internally displaced, 1.3 million refugees—out of a rapidly shrinking population of 20.8 million.

One Boston Marathon Suspects Killed, Another Apprehended

Posted on: April 19th, 2013

New shootings and explosions in Boston. Suspects in Custody. Marathon Suspect #1 is dead.

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Those Mount Sinai Gals

Posted on: April 19th, 2013

Here’s a photograph of a sketch that was performed by the members of the Mount Sinai Auxiliary. They were volunteers who waited tables at the hospital coffee shop, and made gifts for the hospital gift shop. The year was 1951. I’ll bet you those women had a fantastic time together. I don’t know what other [...]

FBI Releases Pictures of Two Marathon Bomb Suspects

Posted on: April 19th, 2013

Two days after a Saudi boy was falsely linked to the Boston Marathon bombings, and one day after Internet uses wrongly touted a teen as the terrorist, the FBI release picture of two prime suspects.

IDF’s Arizona Girl Receives ‘President’s Excellence Award’

Posted on: April 19th, 2013

Nira Lee grew up in Tempe, Arizona as a Zionist but firmly planted in the USA, until she saw the destruction following the Second Lebanon War during a visit to Israel. Now she is Lieutenant in the IDF.

Gaza Terrorists Resume Aerial War on Israel

Posted on: April 19th, 2013

Hamas is either playing war games again or again are losing control of rival terrorists. Either way, two rockets or mortar shells hit southern Israel, which probably will respond “proportionately.”

CUNY Claim of No Constitutional Violations at BC BDS Event Flawed

Posted on: April 19th, 2013

The standard for judging whether constitutional rights can be abrogated is not, as the Investigators claimed in their Report, based on sincerity, but on whether or not, at the very least, there is a reasonable belief that the Four were about to disrupt the BC BDS event. The Investigators stated clearly that there was no such reasonable belief at the time the Four were ejected from the event. Therefore, based on the evidence provided in the CUNY Report, it would appear that the constitutional rights of the four Jewish pro-Israel students were violated.

‘Righteous Muslim’ Exhibition Planned for those Who Saved Jews

Posted on: April 18th, 2013

The London Board of Deputies of British Jews is launching a new Righteous Muslim Exhibition with 70 photographs and stories of Muslims who sheltered Jews during World War II, the BBC reported. The Yad VaShem Holocaust Memorial and Museum in Israel honors ‘Righteous Gentiles” who helped save Jews from the Holocaust gas chambers and death [...]

Brooklyn Woman Admits Stealing $1 Million from Jewish Cemetery

Posted on: April 18th, 2013

A Brooklyn woman pleaded guilty to charges that she stole $1 million from a Jewish cemetery on Staten Island. Ilana Friedman, 51, admitted to grand larceny in Staten Island Supreme Court on Tuesday. Friedman, former director of the United Hebrew Cemetery, stole the money over a six-year period. Friedman and her husband, Arthur, the cemetery’s [...]

Bill Clinton Tried to Block Israel’s Taxing Newly-Found Gas

Posted on: April 18th, 2013

Bill Clinton’s wealth is more than $55 million. He gets a double dividend as a paid energy lobbyist and being a “friend” of Israel by lobbying against the government’s taxing newly-found gas.