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Rosner’s Torah-Talk: Parashat Ha’azinu with Rabbi Sivan Malkin Maas
Backers of anti-Iran group create group against violent Islamists
Imagine taking the 6-year-old NGO (non-governmental organization) United Against Nuclear Iran and swapping out the word “Iran” with “violent extremists.”
Poland is the safest place in Europe for Jews today
I survived the Holocaust in a sub-cellar in Tarnopol (Ternopil), a city now located in western Ukraine that once had a thriving Jewish as well as Polish population.
Report alleges bias at UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies could violate law
A study released Sept. 17 by the pro-Israel campus watchdog AMCHA Initiative found that not only has UCLA’s Center for Near Eastern Studies (CNES) hosted an overwhelming proportion of its events that are critical and hostile toward Israel — as campus pro-Israel advocates long have argued — but that doing so violates federal law.
White House intruder allegedly had 800 rounds of ammunition in car
A decorated Iraq war veteran who scaled a fence on Friday night and got into the White House had more than 800 rounds of ammunition in his car and had been arrested in July with a sniper rifle and a map on which the executive mansion was marked, a federal prosecutor said on Monday.
West Hollywood, Israel join forces in HIV/AIDS task force
Israel’s Consul General in Los Angles David Siegel and West Hollywood Mayor John D’Amico gripped the handles of a super-sized pair of scissors as they cut a ceremonial red ribbon Sept. 18, marking their joint partnership in an HIV/AIDS task force.
U.S. and Arab allies launch first strikes on fighters in Syria
The United States and its Arab allies bombed Syria for the first time on Tuesday, killing scores of ISIS fighters and members of a separate al Qaeda-linked group, opening a new front against militants by joining Syria\’s three-year-old civil war.