Posts Tagged: Jewish residents
Jewish ‘Settlers’ in Jerusalem
In 1628, twenty years after Jamestown became the first British colony in North America, a new settlement far to the north was named Salem. For...
To Settle or Not to Settle? That is the Question
Not long after the recent Gaza war finally subsided, a familiar contentious issue reemerged. Following an investigation lasting several years Israel's Civil Administration declared nearly...
Israeli Ambassadors Warn: EU Policies Will Soon Start Damaging Israel – Within the Green Line
Israeli ambassadors to European Union member states warned that EU sanctions currently targeting Jewish communities located over the Green Line may spill over into the...
Is a House a Home in Hebron?
Amid a week of Middle East turbulence, with the roller coaster ride of Syrian disintegration momentarily offset by a telephone conversation between the Iranian and...
Where Are the Borders?
Palestinian Authority officials, evidently terrified that talks with Israel might actually lead somewhere, have predictably placed yet another obstacle on the way. They are now...
‘All the News That’s Fit to Print’ Really?
Among the many Israeli sources of irritation for The New York Times, none is more persistently aggravating than Jewish settlements. August has been an especially...
Lionizing Palestinian Stone-Throwers
It is no secret that The New York Times has long suffered from a Jewish problem. Ever since the 1930s, when publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger...
Ceremony Marks Begin’s 100th Birthday in Hometown
The hometown in which Former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin was born and raised in, Brest in Belarus, was host to a special ceremony marking...
Evyatar Borovsky: A Settler With an Actor’s Legacy
In the recent media coverage of Evyatar Borovsky's murder, the 31-year-old father of five young children was described in several international reports as a "hardline...
Ignorance, Hypocrisy and Double Standards
I was more saddened than angered when I learned that the North American Board of Trustees of the Union for Reform Judaism condemned Israel's plans...
Defiance, Then Destruction: Chanukah in the Warsaw Ghetto
"Never before in Jewish Warsaw were there as many Hanukkah celebrations as in this year of the wall." That entry from the diary of Hebrew educator Chaim Kaplan...
The Attacks on Israelis You Won’t Read About Anywhere Else, July 15-19
Using resources from across Israel, The Algemeiner will regularly publish details of attacks on Israeli civilians and military personnel, which occur on a daily...
