Ron's World

Category: Jewish World

news items from the Jewish World and Israel

  • JBS News – January 21st

    JBS News Update
    Anchored by Ron Jacobsohn from January 21st, 2015

    Todays Headlines:

    • Tel-Aviv wakes up to public transportation terror attack.
    • State of the Union address ignores international issues.
    • The State of the Union address released on White House website ahead of the telecast.
    • President Reuven Rivlin to attend UN Holocaust Remembrance Day in New York.
    • Daniella Rilov to head the American Israel Friendship League.
    • Mishelanu to hold its first national conference in Los Angeles.
    • The newest trends for Purim – families dressing up in the same theme.

     

  • JBS News Update – Anchored by Ron Jacobsohn – January 20th

    Today’s Headlines:

    • Shimon Peres says immigration to Israel should not be only for reasons of prosecutions.
    • Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls on the Jews of France to come to Israel.
    • The American Jewish Committee appoints new representatives to Asia.
    • I-Vest Israel to combat the BDS movement.
    • Samsung to invest $10million in Israel tech firm, EarlySense
    • Diplomatic incident between Miss Israel and Miss Lebanon at Miss Universe.
      (January 20th, 2015)

     

  • JBS News – January 15th

    JBS News Update
    Anchored by Ron Jacobsohn from January 15th, 2015

    Today’s Headlines:

    • 70 AIPAC Board members in Israel meeting with President Rivlin and PM Netanyahu.
    • Rabbi Herzfeld calling upon U.S. and Canada to open gates to French Jews.
    • CNN’s Jim Clancy in hot water after Tweet on the Paris terror attack.
    • Israeli short film, Aya, received a nomination for an Academy Award.

     

  • Paris Shootings

    In this edition of IN THE NEWS, Ron Jacobsohn talks to Shimon Samuels from the Simon Wisenthal Centre in Paris, Sacha Reigenwirtz, President of the Jewish French student Association, UEJF, and Simone Rudan Benzaquen from the AJC in Paris about the fate of Jews in France following the horrific terror attack at the Kosher grocery store in Paris.

     

  • JBS News – January 6th

    JBS News – January 6th

    JBS News Update
    Anchored by Ron Jacobsohn from January 6th, 2014

    Today Headlines:
    – Jonathan Greenblatt named as the new head of the Anti-Defamation League.
    – A new wave of terror attacks around Israel dubbed the Jerusalem Intifada.
    – Malcolm Hoenlein says there’s no viable partner so long as Abbas is in power.
    – The PCPO poll claims 50% of Palestinians foresee a violent confrontation with Israel.
    – Ed Miliband calls upon a zero tolerance policy against Anti-Semitism in the U.K.
    – Lawsuit of parents who claim their kids were victims of Anti-Semitism will proceed.
    – El-Al enters a code sharing agreement with U.S. carrier, JetBlue.
    – Director Yael Parlov working on the documentary on the last years of David Ben-Gurion