Daily Archives: January 23, 2018
A call to bring the facts to the UK about UNRWA
The British government has announced that it will renew funds to UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/240995
The UK has not placed any restrictions on these funds, which means that new UK allocation...
Oscar nominations 2018: 5 Jewish takeaways
If one thing jumps out about the nominations for the 90th annual Academy Awards, it’s the lack of big Jewish headlines to be plucked from them. “The Shape of Water,” Guillermo del Toro’s latest fantasy-tinted...
Holocaust Survivor And Inventor Of Kosher ‘Meals On Wheels’ Program Dies
Yehoshua Hershkovitz, who started the first kosher “Meals On Wheels” program out of his Brooklyn kitchen, died Monday, the New York Times reported. He was 92.
In 1975, Hershkovitz founded Tomche Shabbos (“supporters of the Sabbath”)...
“El Amor De Un Pintor”
Te huites a un riko, yo un pintor no famozo,
So un ombre infeliz dezesperado sin gozo.
Kon kolores mas kayentes dezeyi desinarte,
Nunka pensi en tela o en un karton pintarte.
Te gravi en mi korason,ize mi...
Jewish men need to talk about #MeToo
Like a lot of other Jewish men, I have been quietly keeping a scorecard of the number of Jewish men in the #MeToo headlines.
Harvey Weinstein, Dustin Hoffman, Jeffrey Tambor, Mark Halperin, Leon Wieseltier, James Toback, Israel Horowitz, Al Franken, James Levine, Jeremy Priven, Woody Allen,...
Organisation of Bulgarian Jews supports Istanbul Convention
Both the Central Israelite Spiritual Council in Bulgaria, and Shalom, the organisation of Bulgarian Jews, support the Istanbul Convention and called for its ratification by the National Assembly in Sofia. They joined parts of...
Two Berlin museums return works to heirs of Jewish collector
Two Berlin museums have returned works to the heirs of a Jewish collector who liquidated them during World War II, according to the Foundation of Prussian Cultural Heritage.
The foundation returned 11 works from the...
Documentaries, romantic comedies, and beyond at the Savannah Jewish Film Festival
The Savannah Jewish Film Festival is back with nine films to share with the community.
For more than a decade, the celebration of fresh voices and narratives in the Jewish community has brought one-of-a-kind, acclaimed...
‘Abbas says one thing in English, another in Arabic
Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein met with European Union Foreign Affairs High Representative Federica Mogherini Tuesday.
Edelstein described the meeting, which lasted 45 minutes, as cordial.
The Knesset Speaker asked Mogherini to respond to the two-hour anti-Semitic rant...
Senior Yemen Qaeda leader calls for knife and car attacks on Jews
DUBAI: A senior leader of al Qaeda's Yemen branch has called for knife and car attacks on Jews in response to U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel,...