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the late Moshe Arens, who passed away Jan. 7
By SIMONE COHEN SCOTT
Jerusalem, January 18th, 2019
Moshe Arens passed away this month on January 7. Over the years I heard talks by  Arens three times.. The first occasion was years ago at one of our excellent forums in Winnipeg.

sweet inn

By KEN STEPHENS
Investing in a series of unique technological applications, Sweet Inn, an upstart Israeli apartment-hotel company, is using ‘TravelTech’ to offer its discerning clientele an innovative and hassle-free vacation experience, unlike any other seen in the hospitality industry.

NHL veteran Keith Primeau (second from right) was among those cycling to fundraise for Israeli disabled veterans and victims of terror.

Over 100 Canadian cyclists participated in the recent Courage in Motion (CIM) bike ride, held to help disabled Israeli veterans.

U.S. President Donald Trump addresses the 73rd session of the U.N. General Assembly on Sept. 25, 2018, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. Credit: Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian.

Contempt for the president is widespread, but he is more likely to get the last laugh on this issue than his detractors.

By JONATHAN S. TOBIN (September 26, 2018 / JNS) The international community made no secret of its contempt for U.S. President Donald Trump when he spoke to the U.N. General Assembly in September. So it was little surprise that when the president uttered a typical piece of Trumpian braggadocio with a tenuous connection to the truth—“In less than two years, my administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country”—the response was peals of laughter from the normally restrained audience of officials in the chamber.

David Matas (left) and Michael Lynk

By BERNIE BELLAN One of the most interesting sessions in the Israel, Palestine and International Law Symposium, held the weekend of Sept. 7-9, was a question and answer session featuring two very articulate legal scholars: David Matas and Michael Lynk.

 

Andrew Silow-Carroll

By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL
(JTA) -- The first mention in JTA of the Hebrew word "hasbarah" was in 1988, at the height of the first intifada.

By CHARLES DUNST
(JTA) – On July 19, Israel’s right-wing coalition government passed, by a narrow 62-55 margin, its controversial nation-state law, which declared Israel as the “nation-state of the Jewish people.” Scores of liberal critics denounced the measure as an unnecessary and racist provocation, while defenders called it a statement of the obvious.

Israel Aircraft Industries spacecraft
(JNS) “Houston, the Eagle has landed” will soon be a common refrain for Israelis.

 

Submitted by (former Winnpegger) BRUCE BROWN, who now lives in Rehovot, Israel.

Feb. 2015
Collected the mail this morning. A few flyers and bills. And my son’s draft notice. A quick double take. A flash back to my son playing with plastic dinosaurs. Then I texted my wife, “It’s here.”

at right - author Ronen Bergman
Reviewed by BERNIE BELLAN
How many of us get a vicarious thrill when we hear about yet another daring Israeli exploit that leaves people everywhere wondering: “What will they do next?”

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By MYRON LOVE
It is with nervous excitement that Pam Bager says that she is looking forward to reconnecting with, most of whom she hasn’t seen in almost 50 years. (*Read more for full photo caption.)

Dreman BarnardBy BERNIE BELLAN
Solly Dreman is an individual about whom we’ve written many times in this newspaper.

yitzchak abuhatzeiraMeet Yitzchak Abuchatzeira. Yitzchak works for the Department of Youth at Risk (Kidum LeNoar) in Jerusalem with young adults from the Bratzlaver community. The ones that find their way to him are not in school, often living in the streets, and without parental guidance.

Harpoon copyReviewed by BERNIE BELLAN
Elsewhere on this website I referred to a book that I had just finished reading, and which I said that I would review.  Although it has a much longer title than simply Harpoon (Harpoon Inside the Covert War Against Terrorism’s Money Masters) I will refer to it in this review as Harpoon.

Karla BerbrayerBy KARLA BERBRAYER
This past fall, my husband Alan and I were planning a trip to Israel to visit our daughter, who is studying in Tel Aviv. We have been to Israel many times; we lived in Israel for a year with our four children – so we were looking for another way to view the country.

Ashraf Marwan2The Angel - The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel
Reviewed by BERNIE BELLAN
I hadn’t heard of Ashraf Marwan before I read this book. If you haven’t heard of him either, there’s good reason for that: He was undoubtedly the most important spy Israel has ever had, but for years neither Israeli authorities – who were aware of his identity, nor Egyptian authorities, who were also undoubtedly aware of what Marwan had done, wanted to reveal anything about him.

Daniel AmzallagBy MYRON LOVE
Daniel Amzallag always had a fascination with all things medical, but his path was laid out for him when Magen David Adom came to his high school in Kfar Saba to do a presentation.

Micky RosenfeldBy MYRON LOVE Despite living under constant threat of terrorist attack, Israel remains one of the safest countries in the world in which to live or visit. It is precisely because of that constant threat that hangs over the country that Israel has developed a security blanket that is at the same time, unobtrusive, yet virtually impregnable, and light years ahead of any other democratic country in the world.

The Weapon Wizards edited 1Reviewed by JOSEPH LEVEN
The Weapons Wizards tells the story of how Israel rose from having no weapons production capacity at all at the time of its founding in 1948 to becoming one of the world’s great weapons producers in our day.

BrounsteinsBy KINZEY POSEN

Every May, Gerald Brounstein leaves his law practice in Israel, gets on a flight to Canada and makes his way to Kamsack, Saskatchewan where he fires up his tractor, to seed the fields.

israelis leavingBy BEN SALES

NEW YORK (JTA) -- Six years ago, the Israeli government released a series of controversial ads to show its expatriates that they would never feel at home in the United States.

Zev FaintuchBY MYRON LOVE
The IDF (Israel Defense Force) is the first and last line of defense for the people of Israel. As Zev Faintuch noted, quoting a Holocaust survivor, “without a strong army, there would be no Israel”.

faudaBy ANDREW TOBIN
TEL AVIV (JTA) – To build a Jewish state in the Middle East, Israelis had to be innovators.

Jason RoyBy BERNIE BELLAN
There has been a rash of stories of late exposing one of the biggest scams operating anywhere in the world:  the selling of binary options.

10 failed plansBy RAFAEL MEDOFF/JNS.org WASHINGTON – A former State Department official’s new plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace is the latest in a long series of Foggy Bottom proposals for a Mideast solution that went nowhere.

abbasUNBy BEN COHEN/JNS.org

It's been clear for a long time that there is little difference between the character of terrorist attacks in Israel and those in the West more broadly. Trucks ram into crowds—as they did in Nice, Berlin and Jerusalem.

Eka Mednikov By EKA MEDNIKOV (English translatiion of Hebrew article)
Myself being a Russian – Israel immigrant and  resident of Winnipeg for almost nine years, I believe that I can understand the reason for the high number of immigrants from Israel to Winnipeg.

treeplantingmachineBy JAY SHOFET
JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Over the past few weeks, more than 1,700 brush fires across Israel have destroyed homes, vehicles and countless irreplaceable personal possessions.

Shimon PeresBy BERNIE BELLAN In 2014 my wife Meachelle and I had the privilege of attending a Jewish media summit in Jerusalem. The highlight of that summit was seeing both then-President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on stage the same day, albeit at different times.

Shimon PeresBy ALINA DAIN SHARON/Israel Hayom/JNS.org  The state of Israel, as well as dignitaries and Jewish groups around the world, came together on Sept. 30 for the funeral service of former Israeli President Shimon Peres, who passed away on Sept. 28 two weeks after suffering a massive stroke. He was 93 years old.

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