All Entries Tagged With: "Israel"
The Abandonment
The Abandonment By Charles Krauthammer There are two positions one can take regarding the Iranian nuclear program: (a) it doesn’t matter, we can deter them, or (b) it does matter, we must stop them. In my view, the first position — that we can contain Iran as we did the Soviet Union — is totally [...]
Woodmere Hadassah Celebrates 100th Anniversary
Text and Photos by Danielle Puma The Woodmere Lailah Chapter of Hadassah celebrated their 100th year of partnership with the land and people of Israel during a Birthday Luncheon on September 12th at Temple Hillel in North Woodmere. Before the ladies were all able to sit down at their tables, the power abruptly went out [...]
Editorials
Really Big Questions Radical Islam hates America, Israel, the West, Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Bahaiism, and just about any and every other “ism” that isn’t Islam. Radical Islam is not monolithic. It is manifested in both Shiite and Sunni streams of Islam. It is embodied in the disparate and scattered outposts of the Muslim Brotherhood [...]
Keeping My Eyes on the Prize
-DEAR THAT’S LIFE- By Miriam L. Wallach There is something about landing in Tel Aviv with a group of 35 Jews who have never been to Israel before and having them welcomed in German because we flew Lufthansa. There is also something to landing in Munich on a stopover to Tel Aviv with [...]
Greater Security for Jewish Sites in Wake of Terror
By Amanda Mayo In light of terrorist attacks on young Israeli tourists that occurred on Wednesday in Sofia, Bulgaria, police forces in Nassau County will be increased around synagogues, yeshiva schools and all other sites that could be prospective targets of terrorist attacks on the Jewish community. In an exclusive interview with The [...]
To Serve With Love
-SOAPBOX- By Joel Moskowitz The Israeli Supreme Court gave the Government of Israel until August 1st to amend the law on army draft exemptions. Until now, ultra-Orthodox or Haredi yeshiva students were exempt from serving in the army or from any form of national service. Additionally, the government (meaning taxpayers) gave the yeshiva students [...]
Made in Israel
By Joel Moskowitz Johannesburg – In late May the government of South Africa announced that it will require that merchants not mislabel products “made in the occupied Palestinian Territories,” as “made in Israel.” Israel summoned the South African ambassador to protest and a spokesman for the foreign ministry accused the government of South Africa [...]
Now Is the Time to Act
By David Freedman I marched in the Celebrate Israel Parade last Sunday. It is the 6th time I have marched in the Parade. As a parent of children whose school chooses to march, it is for me a miraculous experience. It is miraculous not that I am Jewish, rather it is miraculous that in [...]
Big Five Towns Crowd Comes Out For Friends of the IDF
Text and Photos by Amanda Mayo Standard Staff Reporter The Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) held an inaugural Five Towns community event to benefit the soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces on Wednesday at the Sephardic Temple in Cedarhurst. Hundreds came out from the Five Towns and surrounding areas to support Israeli [...]
Hewlett Brothers Form Israeli Political Party
By Scott P. Moore Change, both in the way Israel operates at home with its own citizens and for the countless number of Americans living and visiting, pushed the Goldstein brothers to form their own Israeli political party, partially operated out of The Five Towns. “In a way, Israel has always been a part [...]
From Grim to Great: The Israeli Miracle at 64
ZEITGEIST WITH HOWARD BARBANEL Sixty seven years ago the prospects for the Jewish people looked pretty bleak. With another few weeks left until the end of World War II in Europe, a full third of the Jewish people worldwide had been exterminated, regarded as vermin, bedbugs and roaches by the Nazi German regime who felt [...]
