December 13, 2019

International faith-based group sees Israel up close and personal

Faith-based pro-Israel parliamentarians in Jerusalem for the Israel Allies Foundation’s annual Chairman’s Conference hand a resolution calling for elected officials worldwide to oppose the BDS movement to Likud Party Knesset member Gideon Sa’ar, December 2019. Credit: Jerusalem East Gate Foundation. […]
December 12, 2019

Praise for Trump’s effort to combat anti-Semitism on college campuses

Anti-Semitic graffiti on The Rock at the University of Tennessee in September. As anti-Semitism grows on college campuses, with an increasing number of Jewish students feeling intimidated and harassed for their pro-Israel views, the Trump administration has taken an important […]
December 12, 2019

A Teen’s Daily Bible Study Leads to Lifesaving Ambucycle in Jerusalem

Special to Israel InSight Jerusalem — A few weeks ago, Ayelet Wasserman, a 17-year-old girl originally from Los Angeles who now lives with her family in Jerusalem, visited the Jerusalem headquarters of United Hatzalah of Israel to donate an emergency […]
December 11, 2019

Hijacking Jesus: The New Palestinian Christmas Tradition

By Jonathan Feldstein Just as sure as millions decorate trees, buy (and return) presents, and track Santa’s every move by GPS, get ready for what’s become a new vulgar Christmas tradition; propagating the delusional denial of Jesus being a Jew. […]
December 11, 2019

Start-Up Nation Team to be Israel’s First Competitors in Tour de France

For the first time, Israel will be represented at cycling’s biggest event, the Tour de France, showcasing Israeli innovation to billions of television viewers. On Dec. 11, Israel Cycling Academy announced its partnership with Start-Up Nation Central, a Tel Aviv-based non-profit organization that […]
December 10, 2019

From the Knesset to Atlanta: An Interview with now-Professor Nachman Shai

By Brett Kleiman ATLANTA — Nachman Shai exudes a frenetic energy. Interrupted multiple times over a 90-minute conversation this fall, the former member of Israel’s Knesset roars back each time with “as I was saying” before a monologue about Israel, […]
December 8, 2019

The Forgotten Jewish Refugees, the Bible and the Return to Israel

Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon speaks at an event highlighting the need to recognize Jewish refugees from the Middle East at the U.N. headquarters in New York City, Dec. 4, 2019. Credit: Israeli Mission to the United […]
December 7, 2019

Painful events deepen bonds, understanding

By Richard Friedman A recent CNN story headlined “Swastikas sprayed on more than 100 graves in Jewish cemetery in France” caught my eye. I emailed it to several Christian friends and shared my perspectives as a Jew. I wrote, “About […]
December 5, 2019

Scientists in Israel discover molecule that destroys pancreatic cancer cells

By Abigail Klein Leichman (Israel21c) — A little molecule named PJ34 can cause cancer cells to self-destruct, according to an Israeli study published recently in the biomedical journal Oncotarget. Prof. Malka Cohen-Armon and her team at Tel Aviv University’s Sackler […]
December 4, 2019

Amid Campus Battles, National College Republicans Unanimously Repudiate BDS Movement, Anti-Semitism

Arizona State University. Credit: Flickr. As anti-Israel forces on college campuses continue to push for boycotts of Israel and shut down Israeli — or even non-Israeli Jewish — speakers, the College Republicans National Committee sent a strong message on Nov. […]
December 1, 2019

City with Alabama ties site of first U.S. initiative in Judea and Samaria

Ariel University Center of Samaria. Credit: Michael Jacobson/Wikimedia Commons. By Richard Friedman and JNS reports The impact of the Trump Administration’s announcement that the U.S. would no longer consider Jewish “settlements” in Judea and Samaria illegal already is making an […]