Jerusalem down under
Sights and Insights: Jerusalem down under Jerusalem Post: By WAYNE STILES The Western Wall Tunnels allow visitors to explore the full length of the Kotel, seeing first-century Jerusalem. Wayne Stiles […]
Jews Muslims and Christians Pray together For Rain In Holy Land
Jews, Christians and Muslims have united in the Holy Land to pray for rain. An unusually dry autumn has left Israel and the Palestinian territories perilously parched. Imams, rabbis and priests […]
Lechery, Immodesty and the Talmud
Courtesy NY Times: IS it possible for a religious demand for modesty to be about anything other than men controlling women’s bodies? From recent events in Israel, it would certainly […]
Israel Arrests Palestinian Parliament Speaker
Hamas officials say the Israeli army has arrested Palestinian parliament speaker Aziz Dweik near the West Bank city of Ramallah. The officials say Dweik was detained Thursday at an Israeli military checkpoint as he was travelling to Hebron in the southern West Bank. Israel has not commented on the incident. […]
The media consensus on Israel is collapsing
By JORDAN MICHAELSMITH, ARAB NEWS Across the political spectrum, once-taboo criticism is now common With Hamas and Fatah meeting in Cairo, reconciliation between the rival Palestinian political parties is likely only a matter of time. Official US policy holds that Hamas is only a terrorist entity, and any agreement between […]
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish women continue protests against segregation in Jerusalem
(WNN) BREAKING Jerusalem, Israel: The women sit in the front instead of the back as they are supposed to here. Some followers of ultra-Orthodox Judaism believe men and women should be separated in public, although it is illegal under Israeli law. Women who challenge segregation have been insulted and spat […]
Israel Seeks to End Ancient African Jewish Custom
ABC News: Israel is closing the books on a rare millennia-old Jewish tradition. Nearly three decades after Israel began airlifting Ethiopia’s ancient Jewish community out of the Horn of Africa, […]
High-tech training to lift Ethiopian Jews in Israel
Ethiopian Jews are trapped at the bottom of society in dead-end jobs. Asher Elias gives them high-tech training to boost their upward mobility. “Narrow the digital gaps,” it proclaims. In an adjoining classroom, 20 Ethiopian-Israelis, who are listening intently to their instructor in a course titled “Introduction to Systems Activation […]
Hackers launch cyber attack in Israel
Source: Sydney Morning Herald. Hackers calling themselves ‘nightmare group’ have attacked and disrupted services in Israel. The web based denial-of-service attack was targeted at Israeli Stock Exchange, national airlines and three banks. Read more
Israel passes indefinite detention bill
Migrants Rights: Israel’s parliament passed an incredibly controversial law last week that permits the unlimited, indefinite detention of migrants. The law amends a 1954 statute pertaining to guerrilla fighters penetrating the Israeli-Egyptian border. By sactioning the same wartime punishment against alleged terrorists and asylum seekers (the type of migrant the […]
Israel and Iran – An Israeli Perspective
If you’re an optimist you may decide to interpret the comings and goings of the US and Israeli generals as yet another way to intimidate Iran and prevent it from manufacturing nuclear arms. If, on the other hand, you’re a pessimist, you may conclude that the frequent contacts between Israeli […]
Where Exactly Is Biblical Israel? Only On British War Office Drawn Maps
Courtesy: Hufington Post: Rachel Havrelock: The phrase “Biblical Israel” often passes on the lips of Republican presidential contenders, representatives of the Netanyahu government, and Israeli settlers. But where exactly is this Israel of the Bible to be found? Not in the Bible itself. The Hebrew Bible (known to Christians as […]
Who assassinated an Iranian nuclear scientist? Israel isn’t telling…
by Karl Vick and Aaron Klein. Source: TIMEworld. Like three previous Iranian scientists ambushed on their morning commute, the latest nuclear expert to die on his way to work was […]
Peres: There is no place for Racism in Israel
Peres: Israel Should Thank Ethiopians for Coming Here It’s not Ethiopian immigrants who should thank Israel for rescuing them – Israel should thank them for coming, Shimon Peres said. Aretz […]
Washington’s ultimatum to Israel
A new work of fiction about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict sounds at times a lot like fact. Haaretz: The President of the United States, haunted by troubles home and abroad, finally […]
Israel upholds citizenship bar for Palestinian spouses
BBC: The law is thought to have prevented thousands of Palestinians from living with their Israeli spouses Israel’s Supreme Court has upheld a law banning Palestinians who marry Israelis from gaining Israeli citizenship. Civil rights groups had petitioned the court to overturn the law, saying it was unconstitutional. “Human rights […]
Iran asks UN to condemn killing of nuclear scientist; US denies role
By AGENCIES Published: Jan 12, 2012 00:38 Updated: Jan 12, 2012 00:45 UNITED NATIONS: Iran urged the UN Security Council and Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday to condemn the latest […]
Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox Problem: Why that spells trouble for Country’s Future
Rachel Weinstein calls it her Rosa Parks moment. On a recent morning, the 38-year-old Israeli boarded a bus to a local shopping center in her town. It was the same line she takes regularly, but on this day an ultra-Orthodox passenger directed her to the back of the bus where, she noticed, […]
Racism against Israelis of Ethiopian origin
Hundreds expected to demonstrate against racism in Kiryat Malakhi Hate graffiti against Israelis of Ethiopian origin sprayed on several vehicles and walls in Kiryat Malakhi Sunday. Hundreds of people are expected to demonstrate in Kiryat Malakhi Tuesday against a recent spate of racist incidents aimed at Israelis of Ethiopian origin […]
The war dance is in full swing: Perilously close
Courtesy: Asia Times Online: By Victor Kotsev: In general, sources report an increased rate of transfer of military equipment to American bases around the Middle East in the last few weeks and months. These are very clear preparations for war; yet they need not mean that a strike on Iran is […]