2016

https://anneinpt.wordpress.com/2016/05/22/netanyahus-appt-liberman-defence-minister-gewald-on-left-cautious-welcome-on-right/The last few days in have been a roller-coaster in Israeli politics, with coalition talks going on behind the scenes – but constantly leaked to the public – between Likud and, alternately, Zionist Union and […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2016/05/forward-promotes-jews-of-color-idiocy.htmlWhat has happened to the Forward? Lately that revered institution of American-Jewish life seems to have been serving as a platform to some radical leftist views. Take this letter from a group calling themselves JoC […]

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/jNPo/~3/Y8XFneiD6eU/22-may-16-alleged-harassment-of.html Gaza: Hamas works the news-reporting media Two summers ago, when war was raging here between the Islamists of Gaza and the IDF, an odd aspect of the way the media was covering events caused […]

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/jNPo/~3/ncwiY1wTx1s/21-may-16-darker-sides-of-jcpoa.html Aspirational J Street: Changing the world is anexpensive undertaking [Image Source] In the US world of liberal public radio, there’s considerable agitation in reports emerging yesterday (like “Did $100K grant to NPR help sell […]

https://anneinpt.wordpress.com/2016/05/20/good-news-friday-168/Shabbat is approaching and with it, some relief from the annoyances of the usual everyday news. Talking of which, I will not be writing about the cabinet reshuffle, with all its associated politicking and analyses, […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2016/05/e-jerusalem-home-restituted-to-jewish.htmlIn the latest of many cases,  a Jerusalem court has ordered a property in East Jerusalem to be restituted to the Aricas,  a Jewish family originally from Syria.  They were among some 3,000 Jews  evicted […]