Category: Israel

Selective Grief, Selective Solidarity

By RUTHIE SOUDACK There are people, beloved friends, who will not like this post, but I have to write it. It has been brewing...

CIJA pro-Israel advocacy focuses on Canadian opinion leaders

By MYRON LOVEMost non-Jewish Canadians don’t know much about Israel,” notes Martin Sampson. Speaking to a gathering of Friends of Israel, the director of Communications...

As Abbas era hits 10 years, Palestinians mired in political and economic muck

By SEAN SAVAGE JNS.orgMay 8 marks what many consider an unceremonious 10-year anniversary of Mahmoud Abbas becoming the president of the Palestinian Authority (PA),...

Who is Ayelet Shaked, Israel’s new justice minister?

By JULIE WIENER(JTA) -- Ayelet Shaked (pronounced ShahKED), Israel’s newly appointed justice minister and a member of the right-wing Jewish Home party, has quickly...

Hebrew U prof disputes image of Jerusalem as polarized city

By MYRON LOVE Noam Shoval is definitely not in favour of redividing Jerusalem. Despite some groups’ plans for such a division in the name...

Recycling toilet water and 4 other Israeli answers to California’s drought

By BEN SALES  TEL AVIV (JTA) -- For help facing its worst drought in centuries, California should look to a country that beat its...
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