Sarah Halimi : assassinée parce que juive, par marc knobel
Quelle est cette vilaine propension qui consiste à relativiser, à ignorer, taire autant que faire se peut et/ou balayer du revers de la main le crime et les motivations antisémites d'un crime ? Quelle...
Mexico & moral courage: Andrés Roemer’s international sephardic leadership award ceremony
In honor of this year’s Yom Yerushalayim, The American Sephardi Federation awarded its International Sephardic Leadership Award to former Mexican Ambassador to UNESCO Andrés Isaac Roemer Slomianski. The event, “Mexico and Moral Courage,” was...
Lebanon considering banning Wonder Woman due to Israeli lead Gal Gadot
Lebanon’s ministry of economy is seeking to ban the 2017 Wonder Woman movie because its lead actress – Gal Gadot – is an Israeli, though a formal request for a ban has not yet...
Manuel Noriega, former dictator of Panama, dead at 83
Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, who spied for the United States before his drug trafficking and brutality triggered a U.S. invasion to oust him in 1989, has died at 83.
President Juan Carlos Varela announced...
Sunday Times: Rising anti-Semitism among migrants in Germany highlighted in case of Jewish teenager...
Ferdinand, 14, who was born in London to a British mother and a German father, told the British paper’s reporter Bojan Pancevski he feared for his life after being repeatedly kicked and punched by...
‘Both Estonia and Israel know what works to maintain identity’
Last Thursday marked the 10th Anniversary celebration of the Jewish Community Center in Tallinn, Estonia.
This center was the first Jewish establishment built in Estonia since the Holocaust.
Attending the event were Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid;...
Western Wall elevator project approved
The government approved this morning the “Western Wall Elevator” project.
The decision comes after 13 years of declarations which did not lead to an actual decision on the matter. The approved project calls for immediate...
Manila deploys commandos, helicopters to retake city from islamists
The Philippines mobilized attack helicopters and special forces to drive Islamic State-linked rebels out of a besieged southern city on Thursday, with six soldiers killed in street combat amid heavy resistance.
Ground troops hid behind...
Bulgarian deputy PM defends ‘jokes’ about Holocaust
Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister Valeri Simeonov is under fire after reportedly making light of anti-Semitism and cracking jokes about the Holocaust.
Pavel Tenev, appointed as a deputy minister from the United Patriots party in the...
Facebook ‘irresponsible,’ should treat anti-Jewish online terror like child porn
On Thursday, a federal judge in New York dismissed two lawsuits that sought to hold Facebook liable for allegedly providing a platform for terrorists.
The case was brought by two groups of plaintiffs, one a group of 20,000...