Israel
by Marcy Oster | Sep 23, 2019 | Israel, News, Sports
In a historic first, Israel’s national baseball team qualified for a spot in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The team defeated South Africa on Sunday, Sept. 22, at the Europe/Africa Qualifier tournament in Italy, with former Oriole Danny Valencia hitting a three run homer in... read more
by Simone Ellin, Associate Editor | Sep 19, 2019 | Community, Gallery ONLY, Israel, News
More than 600 people turned out Sept. 17 for “A Night of Heroes,” the annual gala of the Baltimore chapter of Friends of the Israel Defense Forces. Held at Pikesville’s Beth Tfiloh Congregation, the event was chaired by local Jewish community activists Jack and Ellen... read more
by Marcy Oster | Aug 30, 2019 | International, Israel, News
Explosions at two Hamas police checkpoints in Gaza City recently left three policemen dead. But it wasn’t Israel that planted the explosives, as many might have suspected. Hamas believes it was Islamic State, or ISIS, suicide bombers. A day after the deadly attacks,... read more
by Gabe Friedman | Aug 30, 2019 | International, Israel, News
Naama Issachar, a 25-year-old Israeli woman, has been imprisoned for four months in Russia without being allowed to air her defense after nine grams of marijuana were found in her luggage. Issachar denies that the marijuana was hers. Issachar was born and raised in... read more
by JTA | Aug 27, 2019 | International, Israel, News
Israel will help Brazil in battling the fires raging in the Amazon rainforest. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday, Aug. 26, to offer assistance in extinguishing the blazes. Israel will send a firefighting... read more
by Ron Kampeas, JTA | Aug 27, 2019 | International, Israel, National, National Politics, News
In 1992, Israel killed Abbas al-Musawi, a founder of the Hezbollah terrorist group in Lebanon, in a dramatic helicopter attack. Iran, Hezbollah’s primary funder, threatened to retaliate – talk that was somewhat expected for a country that routinely calls for the... read more
by Chris Zang | Aug 27, 2019 | Baltimore, Israel, Local, Maryland, News, Sports
In his days as a tennis player, Steve Krulevitz enjoyed so many career highlights, it’s difficult to pick out one or two. Being in the top 100 on the men’s tour from 1974 to 1983; making it to the third round at Wimbledon and the French and Australian Opens; returning... read more
by Ron Kampeas, JTA | Aug 23, 2019 | International, Israel, National, National Politics, News
Of the many Jews unsettled by President Donald Trump’s claim that voting for Democrats would demonstrate “disloyalty” to Israel and to other Jews, Lee Zeldin might be in the toughest spot. The New York congressman, one of only two Jewish Republicans in the... read more
by Cnaan Liphshiz | Aug 23, 2019 | International, Israel, News
A 17-year-old Israeli girl was killed, and her father and brother were severely wounded, in a bomb attack on Aug. 23 at a nature reserve in the West Bank. Rina Shnerb of Lod, her father, Rabbi Eitan Shnerb, and her brother Dvir, 19, were hiking at the Ein Bubin... read more
by Josefin Dolsten, JTA | Aug 21, 2019 | International, Israel, National, National Politics, News
President Donald Trump offered harsh words for American Jewish voters who support the Democratic Party. “I think any Jewish people that vote for a Democrat, I think it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty,” the president told reporters on... read more
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