Global Affairs

A newly elected member of Finland’s parliament and outspoken supporter of the theocratic regime in Iran has been slammed for comparing the State of Israel to the terrorist organization Islamic State and for his hateful rants against the Jewish community. Screenshots reveal that Hussein al-Taee of the Social Democratic Party of...

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Arab states no longer “honestly” think about Israel in such negative terms, Nikki Haley told the AIPAC policy conference Monday, as the former United States Ambassador to the United Nations said she has “hope” that anti-Israel bias at the international body is in decline. “I was meeting with a couple...

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The Jewish community in Pittsburgh – five months after suffering a xenophobic terror attack of its own – has raised over $50,000 for the victims of last week’s terrorist attack at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. The Tree of Life Synagogue, where eleven people were killed last October, launched a GoFundMe...

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Two lawmakers – Reps. Lois Frankel (D-Fla.) and Randy Weber (R-Texas) – have introduced a bipartisan bill in Congress to further development in the areas of agriculture, water resources, and energy-storage between the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Israel in developing countries, JNS reported Tuesday. “For decades,...

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Syrian Refugees in Greece

With a strong Israeli and Jewish presence offering assistance to refugees from Syria and other war-torn nations on the Greek islands, one native of Aleppo asked, “How can I keep saying you are the enemy?” Ynet reported Monday. Thousands of refugees from Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and other Middle Eastern...

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Intruders broke into the house of Argentina’s chief rabbi, stole money, beat him, and seriously injured him, The Jerusalem Post reported Tuesday. A statement from Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA), the Jewish communal organization in Buenos Aires, said that a group of strangers broke into the home Rabbi Gabriel Davidovich at...

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