2019

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/10/young-woman-is-latest-jewish-hostage.html  Vic Rosenthal’s Weekly Column Zion, will you not ask after the welfare of your prisoners,Who seek your welfare, and are the remnant of your flock? – Rabbi Yehuda Halevi Israel still doesn’t have a […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/10/1016-links-pt1-how-israel-helps-uphold.htmlFrom Ian: How Israel Helps Uphold the U.S.-Backed Liberal International Order Seeking to reverse decades of diplomatic isolation, and in response to increasing hostility from Western Europe, Jerusalem in recent years has cultivated better relations […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/10/every-palestine-museum-artifact-from.htmlI have been looking at the online digital archives of the Palestine Museum where you can search under lots of criteria. The museum says it has over 70,000 artifacts indexed, which sounds like an impressive […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/10/hamas-builds-playground-in-buffer-zone.html Israel has been enforcing a no-man’s land buffer zone between 100 and 300 meters from the Gaza fence, to ensure that Hamas or other terror groups do not try to infiltrate into Israel. The […]

http://david-collier.com/pearson-textbook/ It is not often I am shocked. I have been working through the opening section of a school textbook that is used to teach 16-year olds in the UK about the Arab Israeli conflict. […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2019/10/syrian-jews-race-to-restore-great.htmlThe US organisation Sephardic Heritage Museum is leading a project to ‘restore’ the Great synagogue in Aleppo, Syria. One of the leaders of the community, Joseph Sitt, has urged the community to help advance the […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/10/1015-links-israel-and-kurdistan-time.htmlFrom Ian: Israel and Kurdistan – time for an alliance of the ages. The Kurdish experiment, in at least the territory’s current quasi-independence, has shown the world a decent society where all its inhabitants, men […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2019/10/assimilation-did-not-save-last-camondo.htmlThere are no heirs left to the Camondo name, but the tragedy of this Ottoman banking family transplanted to a splendid villa on the rue Monceau in Paris, whose last assimilated descendant Beatrice and her […]