PreOccupied Territory The News In Advance. Barely.

Violent demonstrations occur much more frequently in Israel than does baseball. Jerusalem, August 11 – Israeli officials have decided to take a play from the American playbook: they will leverage the country’s second-ever attainment of an Olympic gold medal to generate ...

Perhaps even an outright utterance of, “Terrible, just terrible.” New York, August 10 – Representatives of global organizations and of nations touting themselves as defenders of the global order fired back today at Israeli and Jewish advocates, arguing that, contrary ...

The technologies to which the activist referred have yet to yield reductions in the use of fossil fuels anywhere in the world. Tel Aviv, August 9 – A participant in a demonstration at Rabin Square this evening held aloft a ...

“I know I could get tired of hiding away from human eyes for so long. A milkshake would be just the thing.” Tel Aviv, August 5 – Customers and passers-by saw the main eschatological figure of Islam enjoying himself at a local ...

Estimates of garbage takes overtaking physical garbage in Lebanon range from six months to two years. Beirut, August 5 – Decades of mismanagement, malfeasance, incompetence, and rampant corruption in this once-thriving country of nearly seven million have resulted in, among ...

“It’s all about inclusivity.” New York, August 4 – Student activists gearing up for the 2021-2022 academic year at Columbia University have begun preparations for a campaign to pressure the undergraduate administration into restricting admission to gentile applicants beginning next fall, ...

by Dean Baquet, Executive Editor, The New York Times New York, August 3 – Roberta, this is a fine recap of the Met’s upcoming exhibit – good job getting them to grant you an exclusive preview of the Pollock retrospective. It’s ...

“You have to have some backup plan, some go-to technique to deflect, distract, or delay until they get sidetracked.” Jerusalem, August 2 – With July gone and less than a month remaining until school reopens, a local primary school student ...

“They seemed to have this weird notion that there are limits on what you can do to children for the collective good.” Hinnom Valley, July 29 – A scientific effort to alter history to conform to a narrative under which Palestinians constitute ...

It spells the end of a cash cow that the Rabbinate has milked for decades, relegating the institution to the more traditional Rabbinic role of  not engaging in the flagrantly problematic dynamic of having a kashrut inspector draw a salary directly ...