350 years ago, 23 Jewish exiles landed in America, alone and unwanted. For generations, Jews struggled to hold on to their heritage and be recognized as Americans. Across three centuries, Jews went from being outsiders into the mainstream of American life. Today, there are six million Jewish Americans. But even now the old challenge remains, to be both Jewish and to be American. Premiering on PBS...
TV: Special Israel National TV Bulletin on Annapolis
Special Israel National TV Bulletin on Annapolis by IsraelNN Staff:
Arutz Sheva’s IsraelNationalTV presents a special half hour English newscast on the Annapolis summit, the protests against territorial concessions, and the New Zionist Congress meeting held in Jerusalem on Tuesday. Click below to view the exclusive reports. Click here to watch.
Now if only the same kind of karma would infect Christiane Amanpour
Piers Morgan, the arrogant ex-newspaper editor, now a columnist for The Mail on Sunday’s Live magazine, took great delight in making fun of President Bush for falling off a Segway – the two-wheeled, motorised, gyroscopically balanced scooter that, its makers promise, will never fall over. His paper, the Daily Mirror, ran the headline in 2003: “You’d have to be an idiot to...
TV: Christians, listen up
Islam abrogates another holy book; this time it is the Christian Bible. How would the Muslim community respond if ITV made a program challenging Mohammad as the last prophet? From the Guardian UK: There was no manger, Christ is not the Messiah, and the crucifixion never happened. A forthcoming ITV documentary will portray Jesus as Muslims see him. With the Koran as a main source and drawing on...
Forty Years Later, Doing Nothing Is the Best Policy
From Forty Years Later, Doing Nothing Is the Best Policy: In this week’s torrent of 40th anniversary recollections about the Six-Day War, one TV image cut straight to the chase: King Faisal of Saudi Arabia staring into a camera to say, “The essential point remains the total elimination of Israel.” The king’s statement of principles was captured in “Six Days in...