Meet Carly Rose Sonenclar, a 13 yr old Jewish star
She auditioned on The X Factor. 32 million people have seen this video
If you want goose bumps all over watch this performance.
Turks hurt in flotilla raid to go to court despite Israeli apology
‘Unless these soldiers are punished and Gaza blockade is lifted, we won’t accept compensation,’ says Turk who was injured in 2010 IDF raid on Gaza-bound flotilla
Israel’s apology to Turkey over the 2010 killing of nine Turks aboard a Gaza-bound aid ship did not go far enough and Israeli soldiers will be pursued in court, Turkish nationals who were injured in the incident said on Monday.
In a rapprochement brokered by US President Barack Obama, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apologized to his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan on March 22 for the killings, pledged compensation to the bereaved or hurt and agreed to ease a six-year blockade on Gaza. Erdogan said these gestures met his conditions for normalizing relations with its erstwhile ally.
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Can Jewish enclaves remain in a Palestinian state
By Ted Belman
INSS recently published a paper Jewish Enclaves in a Palestinian State./strong> The authors thought it appropriate to investigate this option, because,
- A massive evacuation of settlements located outside the large settlement blocs, home to about 100,000 residents, will be necessary if future Israeli governments seek (or are required to) implement the principle implied by two states for two peoples.
It is defeatist to acknowledge that we might be required to evacuate this number. Don’t we have a say in the matter; better still, a veto. But worse to suggest that “the principle implied by two states for two peoples” is that each state must be free of Jews or Arabs, respectively. Certainly, no one is suggesting that Israel be free of Arabs. In fact no such principle is implied but the PA is demanding it never the less.
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Jews and Chess
Israeli Chess Championships 2013
The Israeli Chess Championships 2013 for men and women are taking place on 6th-14th April at the Palm Beach Hotel in Acre, Israel.
Out of the 32 registered players for the men’s event, no less than 16 are Grandmasters.
Omri Ceren writes
- Israel is a global center of chess mastery. Beersheba is the city with
the most chess grandmasters per capita in the world (!!!)
Half of Israel’s mastery of chess is coming from the fact that it’s a
Jewish game. Roughly half of the world’s champions/strongest players
have been Jewish. The Polgar sisters – one of whom wrote the blog post I
sent along, another of whom is by far the most powerful female chess
player of all time, etc – are Jews.
Jewish game. Roughly half of the world’s champions/strongest players
have been Jewish. The Polgar sisters – one of whom wrote the blog post I
sent along, another of whom is by far the most powerful female chess
player of all time, etc – are Jews.
The other half is coming from the fact that chess is a Russian game. My
hunch would be that most of Israel’s GM’s on Russian.
hunch would be that most of Israel’s GM’s on Russian.
Carter should be vilified, not honoured
The Coalition of Concerned Cardozo Alumni looked at Carter’s “lifetime of work” and rather than find it worthy of an award, what they saw was a record of slandering Israel.
Lori Lowenthal Marcus, JP
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter (R) about to embrace Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh (L), in Gaza City, as the two discussed ending the international boycott of the Islamic, anti Israeli and anti American terrorist organization.
Yeshiva University’s Cardozo School of Law is scheduled to present former U.S. president Jimmy Carter with the “International Advocate for Peace” Award this Wednesday, April 10.
Since leaving the presidency, former president Carter has been present in many places around the globe where tremendous conflict has taken – and continues to take – place. With respect to the conflicts foremost in the minds of pro-Israel Jews and other Zionists, the role Carter has played has been wildly unpopular.
Hannah Senesh (1921- 1944) In Memoriam Yom Ha Shoah
By Jerry Gordon, New English Review
Tonight (Apr 7) marks the onset of Yom Ha Shoah (Holocaust Memorial) in Israel and the Jewish World. The date in the Hebrew calendar,27th Nisan, commemorates the anniversary of valiant Warsaw Ghetto Uprising against Nazi occupation forces by young Jewish resistance fighters in April 1943. Yom Ha Shoah falls one week after the Passover holiday and a week before Yom Hazikaron, Israel’s Remembrance Day for its fallen soldiers.
One of the Shoah victims was a young valiant Hungarian Jewish woman, a Zionist Haganah underground resistance fighter in pre-State Israel, Hannah Senesh. Senesh grew up in a privileged assimilated bourgeois Jewish family in Budapest. She was the daughter of a popular playwright, Bela Senesh, his wife Katherine and younger sibling to her older brother Giora. Father Bela Senesh died in 1927 at age 33 of a heart attack. Hannah was only six years old at his passing. His absence triggered Hannah’s early interest in poetry. (Read more…)
Ted Belman
Jerusalem, Israel
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