In listening to the media and a majority of political analysts, Benjamin Netanyahu had a tough road ahead in the 2015 Israeli elections. So when his Likud party won 30 seats (six seats ahead of Herzog's Zionist Union party), it was a bit of a surprise for most and even a shock for some. Netanyahu's victory could […]
It has only been two months since the terrorist attacks in France led to the death of 17 people including four Jews in a kosher supermarket on the east side of Paris. Prime minister Manuel Valls delivered an emotional speech punctuated with rightful indignation in front of the French Assemblée Nationale, calling anti-Semitism "The symptom of a democracy […]
There is an old story that goes back to the days of coal mining when gas leak explosions loomed at every corner of a mine. Miners would keep a canary in a cage with a person assigned to watching the small bird. At the first sign of the bird collapsing and dying, the miners would know […]
Recently, the Saudis have made two very peculiar moves to protect their country from an ISIS invasion and/or Iran. It is interesting to note that we now have an apparently sharia compliant country trying to defend itself from a sharia enforcing state. Is there more than one way to abide by sharia law? It is also […]
It is with bewilderment, disgust and fear that our global community has become an audience to the bloody carnage inflicted by ISIS within the boundaries of their ever-growing "Caliphate." On February 17, they set 45 people on fire in Iraq, adding to the gruesome death toll of the last few months. It wasn't long ago when […]
France is still trying to recover from the terrorist attacks of early January 2015. But it wasn't just France that was affected, as many around the world are starting to realize that the danger of radical Islam isn't specific to the Middle East and/or exclusive to the Islamic State. Our global community was hit. There is […]
January 27 is International Holocaust Memorial Day and this year also happens to be the 70th anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Soon after the 1945 opening of the death camps and rescuing of those who had miraculously survived, a motto was born: NEVER AGAIN. Emaciated walking corpses believed in that statement and many of them tried […]
Les attaques terroristes de 2015 à Paris sont encore très fraîches dans notre mémoire collective. La réponse aux attaques contre la liberté d'expression et contre la communauté juive a été et continue d'être forte. Les représentants de différents pays continuent à venir à Paris et à rendre leurs hommages sur les lieux des massacres. La […]
The Paris terrorist attacks of January 7 through 9, 2015 are still very fresh in the memory of the global community. The response to the attacks on freedom of expression and on the Jewish community was and continues to be overwhelming. Officials from various countries are still visiting the sites and paying their respects. Both the […]