August 19, 2016

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/08/0819-link-pt2-five-things-you-need-to.htmlFrom Ian: Five Things You Need to Know About World Vision The allegations against World Vision’s man in the Gaza Strip are lethal to the organization’s credibility. World Vision collects money through a child-sponsorship program […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/08/can-you-believe-palestinians-once-made.htmlIn May, JTA reported that “The Golan Heights Distillery is the first whiskey to be bottled and sold in Israel. “ Maybe – but there was a whiskey once made in Palestine: Bozwin, which roughly […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2016/08/sydney-assor-get-highest-moroccan-award.htmlSydney Assor, a leading member of the Moroccan Jewish Community in Britain and a member of the British Board of Deputies, has been made a Commander of the Wissam Alaouite. The award is the highest […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/08/0819-link-pt1-price-of-powerlessness.htmlFrom Ian: Charles Krauthammer: The price of powerlessness This week Russian bombers flew out of Iranian air bases to attack rebel positions in Syria. The State Department pretended not to be surprised. It should be. […]

https://anneinpt.wordpress.com/2016/08/19/good-news-friday-178/They say a week is a long time in politics. It’s also a long time in the Jewish calendar. This time last week we were gearing up for the saddest day in the year, Tisha […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/08/not-newsworthy-4-killed-in-clashes.html Israel gets blamed for any force it uses in searching for terrorists, but here’s something that you won’t hear about often: Two members of the Palestinian security forces were killed on Thursday, and two […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/08/jibril-rajoub-again-using-sports-to.html Jibril Rajoub, head of the head of the Supreme Council for Sport and Youth Affairs as well as the president of the Palestinian Football Association and the Palestinian Olympic Committee, has seized on another […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2016/08/seeing-wood-from-trees-on-tu-beav.html Today is Tu ‘Be Av, the Jewish Valentine’s Day. In searching for a description of how Jews in Arab lands celebrate this day, I came across an alternative explanation from Shlomo on the Tunisian-Jewish  blog […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/08/macmillan-geography-textbook-filled.html Here are the first paragraphs of a section on terrorism written in the textbook  World Regional Geography (with Subregions), 4th edition by Lydia Mihelic Pulsipher, Alex Pulsipher, and Conrad M. Goodwin, published by Macmillan: […]