By Alex Traiman/JNS.org In a span of less than a week, deadly shooting sprees at the hands of gunmen affiliated with Islamic terror movements rocked Orlando and Tel Aviv. In America, the deadliest mass-murder attack since Sept. 11, 2001, has strengthened calls for stricter gun control laws. Yet in Israel, where many civilians carry firearms, […]
The hacker-activist group known as Anonymous has hacked into dozens of pro-Islamic State Twitter accounts and infused them with gay pride and gay pornography following the Orlando mass shooting. While San Francisco-based Twitter did not admit that the accounts were hacked, images of the hacked accounts and the Twitter account responsible for the hacking suggest otherwise. A Twitter spokesperson told CBS […]
The Orlando attack fell during Shavuot, a joyous Jewish holiday. People hold up candles against a rainbow-lit backdrop during a Sunday vigil for those killed in a mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando. (David Goldman/AP) By Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld When our synagogue heard about the horrific tragedy that took place at the Pulse […]
Noor Zahi Salman’s parents listed as being born in ‘Palestine’; police believe she knew about the plot ahead of time She was a sweet, pretty California girl with Palestinian roots who left an arranged marriage only to find love with a man who committed the worst mass shooting in modern US history. Little by little, […]
Please, Hate Me A Little More By Justin Amler There is a natural human desire to be loved by people, to be accepted as one of them, to live in the hub of the main society rather than exist on the fringes. We search for acceptance through social media, as in how many “friends” we […]
Op-ed: After Orlando, we can spend the next few weeks venting our fears and frustrations. Or we can get serious about thwarting death cult extremism I don’t have a panacea to prevent terrorism, but amid all the hand-wringing and mud-slinging in the wake of Sunday’s massacre in Orlando, what’s striking — and unforgivable — is […]
American-Israeli organized a party just one week before in the same Orlando club where 50 people were murdered; ‘There were at least 20 Israelis with me, security is a joke here. Israel is on another level.’ by Itamar Eichner Avi Alfasi (59), an American-Israeli who lives in Florida, was shocked upon receiving the news of […]
