April 2012
26 posts
Excerpt from Yesterday's State Department Briefing...
QUESTION: Are you aware that the Palestinian Authority blocked something like eight websites that are critical of Mahmoud Abbas? And if you are, do you have a comment on that?
MS. NULAND: I do have something on this. We have seen these reports, and we are concerned about any uses of technology that would restrict access to information. We are raising these concerns with the Palestinian Authority....
At 474 years old, a Nazi-stolen painting...
MSNBC news reported today that a 474-year-old painting which was taken by Nazis during WWII has been returned to the heirs of its original owners.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A painting – nearly five centuries old and worth millions - that was taken by the Nazis in World War II has been returned to the heirs of its original Jewish owner by U.S. officials.
“Christ Carrying the Cross Dragged...
On Yom Hashoah, we haven't forgotten on the web.
“Even his political opponents marvel at the president’s mental and physical...”
– Scientists in Israel are conducting a DNA test on Shimon Peres to see if there is a “Shimon Peres Gene” and study its properties.
Jerusalem Post, April 18th, “Geneticists to explore the ‘Peres’ Gene”
Raoul Wallenberg honored with a look toward the...
At the Hungarian Embassy last night, a commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Raoul Wallenberg was held.
Raoul Wallenberg was a Swedish diplomat in Nazi-occupied Hungary. He led an extensive and successful mission to save the lives of nearly 100,000 Hungarian Jews. Though his efforts to save Jews from the Holocaust is well-known, his fate and how he died is still unknown.
A panel...
The Grass isn't always greener...for David Eggers
American writer David Eggers, famous for his novel “A Staggering Work of Extraordinary Genius,” won’t travel to Germany to accept an award from the Gunter Grass Foundation due to controversy from Grass’s poem about Israel.
From the Guardian UK today:
Grass was last week barred from Israel following publication of his poem, What Must Be Said, which warned that...
"My Israel Art Installation" competition winners...
If crafting Stars of David or menorahs as a kid was your thing, you probably should have entered this contest. In LA at the of this month, those who made the best Jewish art will be celebrated during Israel’s 64th Independence Day parade. How’s that for celebrating Israel and its culture on our own West Coast?
From PR Newswire today:
WOODLAND HILLS, Calif., April 13, 2012...
A Crack in Europe's Consensus on Iran
Written by Ilan Berman, who The Israel Project has a conference call with about the P5 + 1 meetings at noon EST.
Featured in the International Business Times on April 5, read Berman’s piece here.
Berman is Vice President of the American Foreign Policy Council in Washington.
“People in the army describe him variously as a geek and an ace. But the geek who...”
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Wired Magazine, “Israel’s Rocket-Hunting Ace Got His Start Playing Warcraft”
This article is about Idan Yahya, 22, an Iron Dome “gunner” in the Active Air Defense Wing 167, who currently holds the record for the number of rockets intercepted: eight.
“…Computer geek,...
Happiness is a Number 14 Ranking...for Israel
From Israel Hayom:
“Despite all of our griping, apparently things are not so bad here after all. Israel has ranked a respectable 14th place in the World Happiness Report for 2012, published by Columbia University’s Earth Institute, commissioned for the United Nations Conference on Happiness, to take place Monday. The report examined 155 countries.”
The United States finished...
“Since its inception, Israel has been threatened ceaselessly with destruction....”
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Israel’s Resilient Democracy
By Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren, featured in Foreign Policy Magazine
From one capital to another: A different kind of...
D.C. and Jerusalem may have more in common that one would think. Countless D.C. residents bike to work every day, either using the popular Capital Bikeshare service or on their own bikes. With bike lanes on many roads and beautiful scenery at every turn, D.C. is an extremely bike-friendly city. Jerusalem is trying to point out it can be the same. Is it a capital thing?
From the Jerusalem Post...
“Nearly two years have passed since the long time journalist Helen Thomas was...”
– White House reporter who quit after anti-Semitic comment honored by Abbas
Source: Haaretz
Israel Uncensored: TIP's Arabic Facebook Page
Check it out. With 388,000+ likes, there’s got to be a reason it’s so popular…
