The past four months have been unlike anything we have seen in our lifetimes. New processes are in place to keep us safe and new words have crept into our language. Before COVID-19, no one spoke of “social distancing”. Happy Birthday was sung at parties instead of while washing hands. Zoom was a noise a jet made, not a platform for socially connecting. The changes have been profound and no more so than at Temple Beth Sholom. (more…)
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By ROSSELLA TERCATIN – JULY 19, 2020
A group of British and Austrian researchers offered new insights on the identity of the mysterious Hyksos, a foreign group that ruled over Egypt for a little over a century in the middle of the second millennium BCE and that a popular myth, as well as some historians over the centuries, has associated with the Israelites. (more…)
IDF Soldiers arrive at the Temple Mount during the Six Day War in June of 1967. A few months later, the Arab League met, declaring, ‘No peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, no negotiations with it.’ (more…)
If we say the catastrophes have been caused by God, we want to know His motives.
By RAYMOND APPLE – JULY 19, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has shaken the whole world and raised the deep theological question of whether to blame God for the catastrophe.
Disasters have attacked human beings and nations – not least the Jewish people – throughout history. They tended to come in two forms: “natural” and moral. (more…)
India Updated: Jul 02, 2020 – by Pramit Pal Chaudhuri – Hindustan Times, New Delhi
Forty-four years ago, Israeli commandos carried out what is rated as the most incredible military operations in history: the Entebbe Raid. On the anniversary of the raid, two of its participants, Mossad agent Avner Avraham and special forces officer Rami Sherman, spoke about what they experienced. (more…)
The opinions expressed on this webpage represent those of the individual authors and, unless clearly labeled as such, do not represent the opinions or policies of TBS. The controversial Tzipi Hotovely – Israel’s new voice in Britain The announcement of Hotovely’s forthcoming appointment was the signal for immediate objections from left-wing Jewish opinion in Britain. By NEVILLE TELLER - JULY 17, 2020 At 42, Tzipi Hotovely is still comparatively “young” in the political realm. Indeed her youth, allied to her outstanding abilities as student, lawyer and politician, has marked her career. In 2009, she was the youngest member in the 18th Knesset. From 2013 onward, she served as a youthful government minister in three departments of state. Later this year, she will become Her Excellency the Ambassador of the State of Israel to the Court of St. James the official designation of ambassadors to Britain. No stranger to controversy,…
The opinions expressed on this webpage represent those of the individual authors and, unless clearly labeled as such, do not represent the opinions or policies of TBS. How to bargain in the Middle East No peace, No peace plans, No price for Peace (A short guide to those obsessed with peace) By Moshe Sharon - South Florida Jewish Home June 2, 2011 Everybody says that his donkey is a horse. There is no tax on words. (Two Arab proverbs) On December 24th 1977, at the very beginning of the negotiations between Israel and Egypt in Ismailia , I had the opportunity to have a short discussion with Muhammad Anwar Sadat the president of Egypt . "Tell your Prime Minister," he said, "that this is a bazaar; the merchandise is expensive." I told my Prime Minister but he failed to abide by the rules of the bazaar. The failure…
There is a controversy that has been raging in Jewish thought, in our civil affairs, and even in everyone’s personal lives for millennia.
People are simply reluctant to accept new things. So often a new thing has to wait for just the right moment in history until it finally gains acceptance. Still today, some people still refuse on principle to get connected to the Internet and use e-mail. For these folks, the Covid-19 outbreak has been particularly challenging and isolating. (more…)