Warsaw Ghetto Uprising anniversary remembered
Events around the Polish capital on Wednesday marked the 74th anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
Prime Minister Beata Szydło and other leading politicians, including the head of the opposition Civic Platform...
This Jewish Scientist Discovered The Magic of THC
In the early 1960s, a Bulgarian-born scientist named Raphael Mechoulam was caught carrying five kilograms of, as he called it, “superb, smuggled Lebanese hashish” on a bus from Tel Aviv to Rehovot. But he wasn’t...
Jewish Community Relations Council sets local Holocaust remembrance observances
The Jewish Community Relations Council is announcing its annual Holocaust commemoration programs for this spring’s series of Yom Hashoah (Day of Remembrance) observances.
The annual Shoah Memorial Ceremony will take place at 4 p.m. Sunday...
Get ready for Jewish Music Week in Toronto
Best Festival Ever!
May 21 - 28, 2017
Program Guide coming out next week, and complete Calendar
of Events will be posted at www.jewishmusicweek.com
on Friday, April 20.
Here are some of the highlights:
Rocky Mountain Jewgrass
Sunday May...
Record numbers of Jews ascend Temple Mount during Passover 2017
A record number of Jews - approximately 1,600 - visited the Temple Mount in Jerusalem during the seven-day Passover holiday this year, breaking last year’s record of 1,015 during the same time, according to...
Holocaust survivor: Sean Spicer is ignorant, not anti-Semitic
Amid the uproar sparked by White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer’s comments Tuesday denying the Nazi regime’s use of chemical weapons during World War II, some opponents of the Trump administration predictably accused Spicer,...
IDF Raids Village of Car-Ramming Terrorist
IDF soldiers overnight Wednesday raided the Binyamin region village of Silwad, the home village of the terrorist who ran down and killed soldier Elchai Taharlev, Hy”d, in a car ramming attack last week. Several vehicles were...
Left-Wing Israeli Newspaper Says Religious Jews Worse Than Terrorists
Haaretz newspaper became the focus of widespread criticism for publishing an ope-ed article on Wednesday that called religious Zionists, “more than drivers in car-ramming attacks”.
Yossi Klein, a regular contributor to Haaretz, wrote:
“The national religious...
“Welcome to Europe’s 4 capitals of anti-Semitism”
If I wrote from the point of view of my personal interest as a non Jew, I would tell Europe’s Jews: stay here, on our side, because your departure would bring irreparable harm. If...
Overall anti-semitism increased 40% in 2016 and genocidal expression doubled
Anti-Semitism on campus increased 40% and genocidal expression doubled in 2016, according to AMCHA Initiative’s annual study, released today, that examines anti-Semitism at more than 100 public and private colleges and universities with the largest...