‘When I was 25 years old, I became acquainted with clay for the first time. I learned different techniques, including how to make three dimensional reliefs.” Yaffa reminisced with me, since she is married to my first cousin, Reuven Geffen. Even though Reuven lived in New York at the time, New Rochelle to be … Read more
Iran denied on Saturday US accusations that it was involved in planning attacks by Yemen’s Tehran-aligned Houthi movement on commercial vessels in the Red Sea, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported. The repeated denial, issued by Iranian deputy foreign minister Ali Bagheri Kani, came after the White House said Tehran was “deeply involved” in … Read more
Hamas chose to attack Israel on October 7, carrying out an unprecedented massacre directed at civilians. Now, two and a half months later, Christian minorities in the Middle East have been affected by the Hamas attack, as Christmas festivities are toned down or canceled in Bethlehem, Syria, and other places. While this is ostensibly … Read more
Hamas was able to carry out their extensive October 7 massacre with help from spies within Israel’s borders, according to a report by The Guardian. The report alleges that Hamas was able to spend years drawing detailed maps thanks to the help of sources inside Israel, citing an IDF conclusion drawn from data found … Read more
Israel’s municipal elections will take place on January 30 as planned, Interior Minister Moshe Arbel announced on Tuesday after he had been asked to postpone them because of the war. The elections were supposed to have taken place on October 31 but were pushed off following the outbreak of the Swords of Iron War … Read more
About 45 years ago, a group of North American immigrants looked for a suitable school for their kids. Neither the national religious nor secular state school systems offered the values they sought to educate their children towards, so they started their own. The first TALI (a Hebrew acronym for Enhanced Jewish Studies) school opened … Read more
After the report of the Israeli-affiliated ship that was attacked west of India, Iran’s leader Ali Khamenei called on the countries that take part in the international force established to deal with the threats of the Houthis, not to take part in it. “It is the duty of the Islamic countries to prevent the … Read more
A drone exploded near a vessel in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen on Saturday night, according to the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO), hours after an Iranian drone attack targeted an Israeli-linked chemical tanker in the Indian Ocean. The incident took place about 50 nautical miles west of Hodeidah, Yemen. … Read more
Qatar’s emir on Tuesday called on the UN Security Council to force Israel to return to the negotiating table over the war in Gaza, saying the inaction by the international community in halting the conflict was “shameful”. “It is shameful for the international community to allow this heinous crime to continue for nearly two … Read more
Details of the mistakes Israel made leading up to the Hamas atrocities of Oct. 7 are coming to light. Israeli investigative reporter Ronen Bergman has recently published two jaw-dropping articles about how much Hamas knew and how Israeli intelligence warnings were ignored—because of the mistaken “concept” that Hamas could be domesticated and transformed into … Read more
