Fighters, workers, and child laborers scurried out of the passages via shafts in homes, mosques, schools, and public health facilities. Khan Younis Refugee Camp, July 27 – Hundreds of Hamas...
Solomon’s latest: Jacob Wrestling Angel – Downtown Jerusalem
If you’ve been to Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda Market (the Shuk) lately, you can’t help but notice all the colorful graffiti decorating the all the shutters. The artwork, by artist...
Jerusalem Pride 2016
An estimated 25,000 people participated in this year’s Jerusalem Pride parade. Last year’s parade was marred by the stabbing death of 16-year-old Shira Banki at the hands of Yishai...
Jews Of Iran Free To Hold Any Political Views The Government OKs
Meshed, Islamic Republic of Iran, July 19 – The approximately twenty thousand Jews living in Iran today enjoy religious and political freedom rare in the rest of the Islamic Middle East, a...
OMG, Rashi. Is It Too Late To Disable Comments?
By God Rashi, you and I have to have a word or two. This penchant of yours for submitting comments on almost every post of Mine has gotten out of hand. I’m going to have to explore the option...
US Holocaust Memorial Museum asks Pokemon Go to Pokemon Stop
As the world downloads and plays Pokémon Go, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has asked the maker of the online game to Pokémon STOP, and not inundate the memorial and educational center with game...
Yes. Casey Neistat is a Super Jew.
Casey Neistat is Jewish. So is his wife. So is his daughter. But first, some background. Folks who work for the Jewish community are always interested in identifying influential Jews –...
NewsBits: Keeping Calm, Observing Dana, Spanking Max, Drinking Sangrias, Satmar Swimming, and More
The UK Guardian starts off the morning with a story on Jewish households in the United Kingdom, titled, One in four married or cohabiting UK Jews has non-Jewish partner. Intermarried Jews three times...
Rabbi Rules Fast Day Counts As Diet
“Do you think the ninth of Av and the Day of Atonement, which are 25-hour fasts, can count more somehow?” Greenwich, CT, July 6 – A Jewish spiritual authority has weighed in on the...
JewliciousReads: My Summer Reading List
Guess what? I never read all of “Night” or “Dawn.” It is about time I did. NIGHT by Elie Wiesel 2006 paperback Edition Hill and Wang In 1960, Hill & Wang gave lie Wiesel...