JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIAL
• Published August 22, 2012
Some view Arab Spring as a gateway toward democratic leadership in a number of Middle East nations. Others are less optimistic, concerned that Islamist fundamentalists will ascend to governance and cause more seismic shifts that will inure to Israel’s...
By Lauren Leone, St. Louis Beacon, stlbeacon.org
• Published August 8, 2012
The Galilee Circus, a Jewish-Arab circus youth troupe, happily find themselves in the circus ring with new and old friends from the St. Louis Flying Arches, a youth circus troupe from the city’s only social circus school, Circus Harmony. The troupes...
What’s so special about a country’s 64th birthday? Well, in the case of most nations, perhaps not all that much, unless the country happens to be Israel, which celebrates its birthday this year on April 25 and 26. Israel has the dubious distinction...
A mob of rowdy soccer fans assaulted Arab patrons and workers at a Jerusalem shopping mall earlier this week. Hundreds of supporters of the Beitar Jerusalem soccer team flooded the nearby Malha mall on Monday following a match chanting anti-Arab slogans,...
Six Arab residents of Haifa were indicted in an attack on two off-duty Israeli soldiers in the city. The Haifa District Court judge who presided over Thursday's hearing said the attack on Shnir Dahan and Roie Sharaff did not appear to be motivated by...
JERUSALEM -- A church in Jerusalem was vandalized with an anti-Christian slogan. "Death to Christians" was painted on the walls of a church in Jerusalem on Monday. The words "Price Tag" and bad language about Jesus also were written on the Baptist Narkis...
JERUSALEM -- Graffiti attacks against non-Jewish targets have continued in Israel, this time at a Jewish-Arab bilingual school and a Christian monastery. "Death to Arabs" and "Kahane was right" was painted on the Hand in Hand Center for Jewish-Arab...
JERUSALEM -- Invective against Arabs was spray-painted on a home in a West Bank village. "Death to the Arabs" and the names of several Israeli unauthorized outposts demolished or set to be demolished were sprayed on a home in Al-Jeniya. Other graffiti...
JERUSALEM—Israel congratulated Egypt on the inauguration of its new parliament, the first in the post-Mubarak era. "On the occasion of the opening session of the Egyptian parliament, on Jan. 23, Israel extends its congratulations to the people of Egypt...
Two Israeli parliamentarians blasted several of their Arab colleagues after pictures surfaced of them meeting with Hamas officials. Knesset members Alex Miller Yisrael Beiteinu and Yoel Hasson of Kadima called for sanctions against Arab Knesset members...
JERUSALEM -- The Knesset Ethics Committee suspended Israeli-Arab lawmaker Ahmed Tibi after he attacked a fellow lawmaker with an insulting poem. On Tuesday, the committee suspended Tibi for a week for reciting an original poem using dirty and hurtful...
By Uriel Heilman, JTA, TEL AVIV
• Published May 18, 2011
If a single phrase could capture the sentiment that motivated thousands of Arabs to try to cross Israel's borders on Sunday to "retake Palestine" from the Jews, it would be this: Yes, we can. That can-do attitude had toppled regimes in Egypt and Tunisia,...
