Winter War 2022– Monologues in Black and White, Part 1: Days 1-5th, February 24th-28th

By Inna Rogatchi, As so many of us, we are starting a day now by immediately checking the news from a front-lines. Those front-lines are not only so unbelievably many places of bombardment, missile firing, fires, assaults, destroyment in Ukraine. There are also lines of civilians with so many children on the way out the…

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Ukraine, Russian troops fighting 5 miles from Kyiv, Russia says it destroyed 74 Ukrainian sites

By Neta Bar and Damian Pacher, Israel Hayom— Ukrainian troops are fighting the Russian army in in the north and the south, Ukrainian military chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi said Thursday afternoon. Zaluzhnyi said a battle was raging Thursday near the Hostomel air base 7 kilometers (less than 5 miles) northwest of the capital, Kyiv. He said…

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Red Alert: Why is Antisemitism Everybody’s Problem? Find out with Barry Shaw! Part 1

Why is Antisemitism Everybody’s Problem? Find out this week and next (February 23 and March 2, 2022) with special guest Barry Shaw of the Israel Institute of Strategic Studies. Barry brings us a wealth of research and personal experience on the topic of advocating for Israel and combatting antisemitism. Barry’s repertoire of work includes the YouTube interview program called “The…

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Ukraine’s Jewish community on edge as Russia invades country

BY Israel Kasnett, JNS— Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recognition on Feb. 21 of two “breakaway” states in eastern Ukraine and his subsequent dispatch of “peacekeepers” there—considered by Western nations to be an official invasion of the country—has left its citizens and particularly the Jewish communities on edge. Throughout Ukraine, Jewish leaders are watching closely, and…

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Protective Dome defense system completes successful test at sea

By Lilach Shoval and ILH Staff— Israel’s version of the maritime Iron Dome defense system successfully complete a series of tests in the early hours on Monday morning, the Defense Ministry announced said. Protective Dome’s test was supervised by the Defense Ministry, Israeli Navy, and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems. Its intercepts were fired from a…

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What will Israel’s new COVID-19 travel rules look like?

By Shira Silkoff, JPost— For the first time since the skies were closed at the start of the coronavirus pandemic in March 2020, Israel’s borders will be fully reopened to foreigners beginning March 1. Israel closed its borders to all foreigners on March 18, 2020, due to the fast-spreading virus, bringing international travel to an…

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Protective Dome defense system completes successful test at sea

By Lilach Shoval and ILH Staff— Israel’s version of the maritime Iron Dome defense system successfully complete a series of tests in the early hours on Monday morning, the Defense Ministry announced said. Protective Dome’s test was supervised by the Defense Ministry, Israeli Navy, and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems. Its intercepts were fired from a…

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Amnesty International Offers No Amnesty to Israel

By Arlene Bridges Samuels, CBN Israel— Amnesty International describes itself as a global movement that protects people wherever justice, freedom, truth, and dignity are denied. And there’s no question that this human rights organization has a good track record at “researching and documenting human rights abuses wherever they occur,” as its website states. However, one…

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Palestinians: The Human Rights Violations No One Talks About

By Khaled Abu Toameh, Gatestone Institute— While international “human rights” organizations such as Amnesty International make false and baseless claims against Israel, most continue intentionally and systematically to ignore the human rights violations committed by the Palestinian Authority (PA). A report published on January 29 by the Palestinian NGO International Commission to Support Palestinian Rights…

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It’s not just the Holocaust that Whoopi Goldberg got wrong

By Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe—- Under “R” in “The Holocaust Encyclopedia,” a reference work published by Yale University Press, is an eight-page entry on “Racism.” It begins: “The distinguishing characteristic of Nazi Germany was its obsession with race.” Had Whoopi Goldberg glanced at the encyclopedia before last Monday’s discussion on “The View” about the Holocaust…

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