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Daily Archives: March 22, 2018

A one-on-one with Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon

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Despite the role of the United Nations in helping establish the State of Israel in 1947, the world body has long been a forum used by other nations to single out and condemn the...

Parashat Tzav צַו

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This Parasha is sometimes coincides with Shabbat Hagadol (“שבת הגדול”), the Shabbat right before Peach. The word Tzav (“צו”) in numerical value is 96, as it alludes to many words that have the same...

Father of Polish PM: Jews moved to Warsaw Ghetto during WWII on their own,...

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Jews moved to the ghetto during World War II to get away of non-Jews, said a former senator and father of the Polish prime minister in an interview published Tuesday by the online magazine...

Hungary’s Jewish community marks 70 years for the state of Israel with KKL-JNF

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Today, March 22, 2018, Keren Kayemet Le’Israel-Jewish National Fund (KKL-JNF) hosted members of the Federation of Jewish Communities in Hungary (MAZSIHISZ) and the Hungarian Embassy in a formal planting ceremony to celebrate Israel’s 70th. The...

Tel Aviv court judge accused of colluding in Bezeq case is officially suspended

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Tel Aviv Magistrate Court Judge Ronit Poznansky-Katz has been suspended by Supreme Court President Esther Hayut on Thursday, pending a disciplinary hearing on charges that she colluded with a state prosecutor in a case...

The Athens Jewish Film Festival Returns for the 10th Year

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The Athens Jewish Film Festival is back, and bigger and better than ever. Events span five days, beginning with a Sunday gala at the Georgia Museum of Art and ending with a closing party...

Jewish journalist in Colombia forced to resign for refusing to cross herself on air

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A Colombian Jewish journalist was forced to resign as anchor of a daily TV newscast after refusing to cross herself on air. When Channel 1’s Cathy Bekerman was told by her newscast director to cross...

Emma Lazarus (1849–1887)

Today, Emma Lazarus is best known as the writer of the words engraved on the pedestal of New York’s famed Statue of Liberty. However, in her tragically short life (she died at the age of...

Michael Bloomberg

Brilliant businessman, philanthropist and three-term mayor of New York City Michael Bloomberg has been a staunch supporter of Israel throughout his public life—sometimes in its most difficult moments. The first Israel Day Parade of Mayor...

What Syria doesn’t teach us about Iran

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The explanation many pundits are offering for the Israeli government’s belated admission that it was responsible for the 2007 bombing of a Syrian nuclear reactor is to send a message to Iran. Other more mundane...