Monthly Archives: January 2010

Obama, I misjudged the will for peace

By | 2010-01-22T03:10:00-04:00 January 22nd, 2010|News|

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met US Mideast envoy George Mitchell Thursday night, a few hours after Time magazine published an interview with US President Barack Obama in which he admitted that he erred during his first year in office by raising too high expectations of a Middle East breakthrough.

A Woman’s Life in Muslim Sudan

By | 2010-01-22T03:00:00-04:00 January 22nd, 2010|Women rights|

Sudanese Muslim officials arrest tens of thousands of women a year for wearing "indecent clothing,” including trousers, and many have been fined and subjected to 40 whip lashes. One woman tells related the story after being spared the punishment, apparently because she attracted too much bad publicity.

Arab Rock Attack on Hershkowitz

By | 2010-01-22T02:48:00-04:00 January 22nd, 2010|News|

Arabs in Kfar HaShiloach (Silwan or Siloam) threw rocks Thursday at the entourage of the Head of the Jewish Home party, Minister of Science and Technology Rabbi Prof. Daniel Hershkowitz. No one was hurt and no damage reported.