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...
Shurat HaDin reveals how donations to Hezbollah bypass US-imposed sanctions
In light of the international sanctions imposed on the Lebanese terrorist organization, Hezbollah has turned to Facebook to raise money for its terrorist activities. Hezbollah instructs its supporters to come to Beirut in order...
John Geils, guitarist and J. Geils Band leader, dead at 71
Groton Police went to Geils' home for a simple well-being check, but he was found to be unresponsive and was declared dead at the scene. Foul play wasn't suspected, and preliminary investigations suggest Geils...