November 2016

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/11/katharine-grahams-legacy-and-washington.html Katharine Graham would turn over in her grave were she to read the Washington Post of today. This is what I’ve thought to myself every day for the last two weeks since I finished […]

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/jNPo/~3/uU_pe8-SKic/03-nov-16-near-ofra-another-young.html Today’s attacker is stopped [Image Source]  We mentioned the Israeli community of Ofra this past weekend [“29-Oct-16: Knives, cars, guns: Israeli security thwarts weekend attacks“]. The quiet town of some 3,200 residents, located on Route […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2016/11/memories-of-jews-from-kirkuk-and-mosul.htmlNot all Jews living in northern Iraq were Kurdish – they did not  all speak the same language, dress the same way or share the same customs. Take for instance, the Turkmeni Jews of Kirkuk, […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/11/bringing-israels-supreme-court-into.html  Vic Rosenthal’s Weekly Column The latest battle in Israel’s ongoing struggle to define itself is being fought over the way Supreme Court justices are selected. The 15 justices are appointed by a judicial selection […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/11/1103-links-pt1-balfour-100-j-street.htmlFrom Ian: Balfour 100 – Website May I offer you our heartiest thanks – I am sure that when the history of this time will be written it will be justifiably said that the name […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/11/will-this-store-be-boycotted.htmlThis week, the BDSers started publicizing a campaign to boycott Hewlett-Packard, which they claim helps Israel’s “occupation” more than other companies. HP’s stock price has gone up about 25% so far this year. The boycotters […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/11/jerusalem-sheikh-says-blaring.html This morning, residents of Pisgat Ze’ev went to the house of Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat and woke him up with a loud recording of the Muslim call to prayer, amplified to approximate what they […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/11/a-dead-man-still-leads-palestinian-arabs.htmlIn the weeks before the 12th anniversary of Yasir Arafat’s death, his face is all over the Palestinian Arab news. The Fatah Facebook page is literally filled with images of Arafat. It has hundreds, and […]