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Boehner Criticizes Obama’s Treatment of Netanyahu

March 31, 2015 House Speaker John Boehner had harsh words for US President Barack Obama’s treatment of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: “I think the animosity exhibited by our administration toward the prime minister of Israel is reprehensible,” he told CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union.”

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Parasha Tzav (Command): Shabbat HaGadol and the Secret of Passover

March 27, 2015 Because this Shabbat is just before Passover, which starts next Friday evening, it is called Shabbat HaGadol (Great Shabbat), and a special Haftarah portion from Malachi is added that speaks of the coming of Messiah.

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Netanyahu Election Tactics Spark Apology and Rebuke

March 25, 2015 Comments made by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his election campaign this March have drawn criticism from internationals insisting on a two-state solution—a Palestinian state alongside Jewish state. Netanyahu, whose party won the most seats in Israel’s March 17 elections, has been accused of backtracking on support for a "two-state" approach to peace between Israel and the Palestinian Authority after revealing his misgivings that it is possible to form a Palestinian state today.

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Khamenei: “Death to America” as Nuclear Deadline Nears

March 24, 2015 In Iran on Saturday, despite earlier announcements by United States Secretary of State John Kerry that "substantial progress" has been made in nuclear talks with the Persian state, "Death to America" chants resounded during a speech by Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

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Israeli Apartheid? Palestinian Named Israeli Ministry’s Chief Scientist

March 24, 2015 A 42-year-old Palestinian scientist with a prestigious track record of hard work and a specialization in chemical engineering has been selected as the deputy chief scientist of the Israeli Ministry of Science, Technology and Space, the highest-ranking Israeli government position for any Palestinian resident.

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UN Names Only Israel as “Abuser of Women’s Rights”

March 24, 2015 Out of the United Nations' 193 members, this year's Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) report named Israel alone as an infringer on women's rights, but not of Israel's own women—of the women across the green line.

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Strategies Emerge to Address Growing Anti-Semitism

March 23, 2015 Recent events in Toronto and London show heightening anti-Semitism while worldwide a spectrum of strategies has emerged to counteract Jew hatred—including the idea to develop a counter-anti-Semitism taskforce proposed by a top European Union official.

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Bibi Will Lead Israel Again As We Come into These Last Days

March 23, 2015 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went into yesterday’s election trailing his Zionist Union rival Isaac Herzog by four seats, last night’s exit polls showed them neck-and-neck.

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Parasha Vayikra (And He Called): A Very Special New Beginning

March 20, 2015 The new beginning of the Jewish year is being marked in a big way this year with a supermoon (a moon that is aligned with the sun and at its closest approach to the earth) that totally eclipsed the sun at 7:41 a.m UTC (Coordinated Universal Time or 9:41 a.m. in Jerusalem). That eclipse took place in the North Pole, which has to be the ultimate symbol of the wilderness. Of course, the wilderness is significant in Judaism because the Torah was given in the wilderness and not in the Land of Israel. Judaism teaches that the wilderness represents the world, with all its struggles.

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Supermoon and Rare Solar Eclipse Ring in First Day of Jewish Calendar

March 17, 2015 This Friday, March 20, a rare solar eclipse will be visible over the North Pole. Its timing seems to be remarkably "coincidental": it occurs on the Spring Equinox, which is the first day of Spring. It is also the beginning of the Hebrew month of Nissan, the first month in the Biblical calendar year.

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