Daily Archives: March 20, 2018
GI JEWS: Jewish Americans in World War II
GI JEWS: Jewish Americans in World War II will be broadcast nationally on PBS on April 11, 2018 at 10pm (check local listings). The film is also available for purchase on DVD from Shop PBS
https://player.vimeo.com/video/241957031
GI JEWS:...
Alan Dershowitz on Israel at 70: ‘A Light Unto the World’
Ahead of Israel’s 70th birthday in May, longtime Harvard University Law Professor, attorney and author Alan Dershowitz announced that he is donating an ambucycle to Israel’s volunteer medic organization, United Hatzalah, in honor of...
Why does Ronald Lauder want Israel to be only nine miles wide?
After a long career in government and Jewish communal service, Ronald S. Lauder just announced his new cause: creating a Palestinian state in Israel’s backyard. People sometimes take on some pretty strange hobbies in...
Thessaloniki holds march to commemorate 50,000 Jews sent to the concentration camps
It was 75 years ago this week when the Nazi forces occupying Greece perpetrated a horrible crime: the deportation of 46,000 Jews from Thessaloniki. The Macedonian capital, Greece’s second largest city, had been the...
Israeli, Iranian soccer stars pose together on social media to bridge nations’ divide
An Israeli soccer player and the captain of the Iranian national team took to the Internet to show that the people of Iran and the people of Israel do not harbor hate.
“In soccer, there...
Abbas calls US Ambassador Friedman ‘son of a dog’
Addressing a Palestinian leadership meeting, he said Trump “views the settlements as legitimate,” adding “the ambassador, David Friedman, said they are building on their own land.” “You son of a dog, building on your...
Adelson family contributes $13 million to Israeli American Council
Dr. Miriam and Sheldon Adelson announced an additional $13 million gift on March 18 to support the Israeli American Council at its 10th annual Los Angeles gala.
The gift was donated in the wake of...
Orthodox Union lobbies for equitable education dollars for security, STEM program
Hundreds of Jewish day-school students from all over New York streamed into the legislative chambers on March 13 in Albany, N.Y., to advocate for increased education funding for private schools at the state level....
Impeaching the President: Identifying Deeper Jurisprudential Foundations for Lawful Removal
"Reluctantly, I have concluded that President Trump is a serious threat to U.S. national security."
General (USA/ret.) Barry R. McCaffrey, March 18, 2018
"The safety of the People Shall be the highest law."
Cicero, The Laws
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Guatemala receives highest award for truth-telling on Israel
The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA), the world’s oldest and largest Middle East media monitoring organization, announced that it will give its highest honor—the Emet Award—to the republic of Guatemala...