Israelis are known to be impatient, and when it comes to how fast they are moving to establish business relations with the new country of South Sudan, the stereotype is holding true. Israeli companies seeking contracts in industries such as agriculture, security, medicine and infrastructure are being welcomed by the leadership of the world’s newest…
Crossposted from Haaretz “The issue of refugees is not foreign to us; not to Jews, and not to the State of Israel,” says award-winning filmmaker Shai Carmeli-Polak. Shai’s documentary, “Ha’plitim,” (The refugees) seeks to expose the moral and legal questions underlying refugee status in Israel. The film follows African asylum-seekers as they cross the Egypt-Israel…
In July Lubna Hussein was arrested, along with a dozen other women and girls, in a Khartoum café — for wearing pants. Though at first she faced being fined plus being flogged 40 times with a whip, on Monday, according to this story a Sudanese court found her guilty of violating the country’s indecency laws…
He may be America’s most influential rabbi — at least according to Newsweek — but that didn’t help Rabbi David Saperstein much with the Secret Service surrounding the Sudanese embassy in Washington. On Monday, he was arrested, with two other activists and five members of Congress, during a demonstration outside the embassy. The group protested…
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