Daily Archives: April 10, 2018
Repairing the world with music
SDSU Live Downtown
SAN DIEGO — As an artist and teacher, I’ve always been a passionate advocate of arts in education. I’ve seen from research and personal experience how the arts can really ignite sparks in...
Gaza is nothing like Selma
When Hamas organized a “March of Return” on March 30, like the producers of a theatrical production, leaders of the terrorist group and their foreign enablers waited to see the returns from their investment...
Parashat Shemini שְּׁמִינִי
This is now the first day of the month of Nissan (“ניסן”) as Rosh Chodesh (“ראש חודש”), and the eighth day of the inauguration of the Mishkan. We know that from a hidden numerical...
The test of the March of Return: Violence in the West Bank
Hamas’s March of Return campaign in Gaza will count as a success for its organizers only insofar as it mobilizes mass violence in Jerusalem, Ramallah, Bethlehem, Hebron, and elsewhere in the West Bank. This...
Analysis: Latest Israeli airstrike in Syria likely stopped new Iranian threat
The recent missile strike on a military airbase deep in the central Syrian desert looks like the latest installment in a long-standing Israeli campaign to police its red lines against highly dangerous developments to...
The new face of Jewish philanthropy is innovative, younger and more female
Giving has been part of New Yorker Sarah Rueven’s life since she can remember. In fact, Rueven recalls her grandparents and her parents teaching by both word and example what a powerful force that...
‘Never Again Education Act’ to teach American students about the Holocaust
Proposed legislation, if passed in the U.S. House of Representatives, would grant money raised through donations to American schools as part of the Holocaust Education Assistance Program.
A draft of the “Never Again Education Act”...
German diplomat appointed country’s first commissioner to combat anti-Semitism
German diplomat Felix Klein has been appointed the country’s first commissioner to combat anti-Semitism following a rise in such incidents in recent years.
The new anti-Semitism post was approved by German lawmakers earlier this year,...
Honduran president cancels participation in Israel’s 70th-anniversary ceremony
The Israeli Foreign Ministry has announced that Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández will not take part in a torch-lighting ceremony marking Israel’s 70th Independence Day.
“Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández will not attend Israel’s 70th-anniversary festivities,...
AP misuse of photograph erroneously links Syrian gas-attack victims to Israel
According to an Associated Press headline on April 9, Israel is being blamed for a pre-dawn strike on a Syrian military base. The large photo that the wire service opted to use alongside that headline, though,...