Jazeera reports on the increase in Palestinian injuries in one West Bank refugee camp: Most of the gunshot wounds were directed at the lower limbs of the youth in the camps, now commonly referred to as "kneecapping." Residents of the Dheisheh camp say that an Israeli army commander, who the youth in Dheisheh refer to as "Captain Nidal", has been threatening to intentionally disable Palestinians in the…

Jesse Rubin reports from a standing-room-only event in Brooklyn on free speech and Palestine solidarity in support of Dareen Tatour, a Palestinian poet under house arrest whose case has come to symbolize the absurdity of Israel’s selectively guaranteed right to free s…

Abba Solomon see the film, The Golden Age of Second Avenue, a documentary love poem for Yiddish theater in NYC, from1890s-1930s, as part of an effort to save the Yiddish legacy of New York's Lower East Side and observes, "The weight of memory, and the histories Jews tell of themselves, the tradition and experience we imagine we are heir to, shape the way the creation and conduct of the State of Israel is…

Kylie Jenner reportedly backed out of an interview with Megyn Kelly because she feared being asked tough questions.
The 46-year-old TV reporter sat down with Kris Jenner and her daughters Kim, Kourtney, Khloe and Kendall earlier this year to record an interview - but Kylie was noticeably absent from the chat despite posting pictures of herself at the studio on social media.
A source explained to the New York Post newspaper's Page Six column: "She was all set