AKIM: Providing Pride & Dignity for Israelis with Special Needs.

Barri Rind is used to fighting for a cause when the cause is right. Born in Jerusalem, she has resided in the Seattle area for the past 36 years. A mother of three… Continue reading →

The Reluctant Oleh Updates Us: An Interview With An IDF Soldier

In October of last year, then 19 year old Seattle native, Shana Jacobson, shared the story of her “reluctant” Aliyah with an honesty and openness that resonated with TMR readers. Since then we have… Continue reading →

Exclusive Interview: New Film Takes You Behind the Scenes with the IDF

  Whatever you expect of Jerusalem U‘s new film, Beneath the Helmet: From High School to the Home Front, it is sure to surprise. The documentary film Beneath the Helmet provides intimate, fly on the wall… Continue reading →

New Israel Fund Ejected from Birthright Program

The Algemeiner Journal and The Jerusalem Post reported today that New Israel Fund, a controversial foundation that supports dozens of Israel related causes,  many of which are considered hostile to the Jewish State, was… Continue reading →

Guest Post: The Ultimate in Courage.

THE ULTIMATE IN COURAGE  By Dr. Elie Levy A visitor from Seattle hopes to provide comfort to wounded Israeli soldiers, in so doing he finds the ultimate in courage. This past July, during… Continue reading →

Our heart aches

As we enter Shabbat , what should be our weekly reprieve from the stresses of the week, we are preoccupied with worry for the fate of Lt. Hadar Goldin, kidnapped by the evil… Continue reading →

LARGE GATHERING SHOWS SEATTLE SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL

For the second time in a week, Seattle’s Jewish community joined together to express their support for an Israel under attack. With a handful of pro-Hamas protesters standing across the street; over 400 area Jews… Continue reading →

Exclusive video & audio of IDF preventing terror attack.

THAT’S ALL FOLKS! You may have seen this footage of the IDF intercepting a group of terrorists emerging from a tunnel en-route to an attempted terror attack. The Mike Report has obtained exclusive… Continue reading →

Hen Mazzig; I hope I made a difference

November 21st of 2012, Hen Mazzig was walking down Shaul HaMelech street in the heart of Tel Aviv when an ear splitting explosion ripped through the air. The gut wrenching sound echoed across… Continue reading →

Gathering at SJCC as community prays for return of kidnapped teens

Special to The Mike Report by Randy Kessler I was not able to attend last night’s community-wide prayer service at Ezra Bessaroth, but I joined with about 100 other Jewish and non-Jewish friends… Continue reading →

Teaching hate

H/T Israellycool . As the Jewish world continues to  reel from the abduction of three innocent souls,  three teenagers ripped from their families. Our Arab enemies are teaching their children to mock our sorrow,… Continue reading →

WU Hillel won’t back up accusations against StandWithUs

NEWLY UNCOVERED DOCUMENT CONFIRMS HILLEL MADE STUDENTS PLEDGE NOT TO DIVULGE CONVERSATION FROM ANTI-ISRAEL EVENT Imagine a group of renegade US soldiers, soldiers who acknowledge violating stated military protocols and claiming to have engaged in immoral… Continue reading →

Israeli soldier slams haters – and a new cartoon

J STREET U AND HILLEL SPONSOR ANTI-ISRAEL EVENT – NO DISSENT ALLOWED Be open to unfamiliar ideas, be willing to have the uncomfortable conversations – these are the mantras of anti-Israel organizations like… Continue reading →

How to speak Terrorist

After a day or two of  reading news reports from Palestinian media you will be forced to come to the uncomfortable conclusion that Israel has a real problem with olives.   Several times… Continue reading →

More recycled news from Ma’an Palestinian News Agency

What do you do on a slow news day? Well if you are the Palestinian Ma’an News agency you just make up some news or if you are really lazy you just recycle some… Continue reading →

Where was the rest of the picture?

On March 2nd of 2012 the JTNews, Seattle’s Jewish community owned newspaper, published the most infamous cover photo in the history of the journal. For the first time in memory a photo representing… Continue reading →

Palestinian Maan News Agency suffers from bout of truthiness

The Palestinian Ma’an News Agency is well known for, how shall we put this?…being generous with the truth.  But in an article about Jewish Pilgrims visiting the tomb of Joseph in Shechem this… Continue reading →

Guest post; My conversation with the JTNews editor

By Rachel Kaplan Sassoon Today I cancelled my subscription to the JTNews. For the past few years and especially over the past few weeks I have become increasingly alarmed by the downward spiral… Continue reading →

Is Linda Frank even Jewish?

As previously reported on The Mike Report, a letter from anti-Israel activist Linda Frank was printed In the August 16th edition of the JTNews. The letter itself defended Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas… Continue reading →

Masking the smell is our cartoon of the day

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