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Daily Archives: May 9, 2018

The Quiet Revolutionary

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RBG, the documentary about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, directed and produced by Betsy West and Julie Cohen exposes a quiet, ladylike, and very persistent revolutionary.  She was a strong advocate for gender equality and women’s...

A Family History of Mer-Kup, a Modernist Hub in Mexico City

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In 1961, a Polish-Jewish woman opened a small gallery in Polanco, a middle-class neighborhood in Mexico City. Over the following decade, the space became a cultural force, hosting solo and collective exhibitions by artists...

The Quiet Revolutionary

RBG, the documentary about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, directed and produced by Betsy West and Julie Cohen exposes a quiet, ladylike, and very persistent revolutionary.  She was a strong advocate for gender equality and women's...

Israeli Netta Barzilai to sing in finals of Eurovision contest

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Israeli singer Netta Barzilai was voted on Tuesday to be one of the 10 singers in the final of the Eurovision song contest. Barzilai, who performed the song “Toy,” will join finalists from Estonia, Cyprus,...

Netanyahu meets with Putin in Moscow amid in escalating tensions in Syria

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Russian President Vladimir Putin amid growing tensions in Syria. The trip comes just hours after Israel reportedly bombed a Syrian military site linked to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards...

De Niro’s Nobu Hospitality to open luxury hotel in Tel Aviv

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Robert De Niro’s Nobu Hospitality group will be opening a luxury hotel in Tel Aviv. Nobu Hotel Tel Aviv will be located at 55 Rothschild Blvd. and 66 Ahad Ha’am St., and will feature 38...

Closure of Iran file was collusion by Obama administration, Europeans, IAEA

The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), also known as the Iran nuclear deal, could not be achieved until Iran was cleared of suspicions that it had worked on developing nuclear weapons. This was...

Iranian MPs burn U.S. flag in parliament, chant ‘Death to America’ after Trump ends...

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Iranian parliamentary members burned a U.S. flag in the Majlis and chanted “Death to America” in the wake of U.S. President Trump’s announcement on Tuesday afternoon that the United States is withdrawing from the...

Robert F. Kennedy (1925–1968)

Robert Kennedy was a champion of the Jewish state from the start of his professional life in 1948 until the tragic end of his life 20 years later in 1968. He served as the...

Jewish and pro-Israel groups’ reactions pour in on Trump’s withdrawal from Iran deal

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Reactions from American Jewish and pro-Israel groups poured in following U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision on Tuesday afternoon to withdraw the United States from the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal. “This was a horrible one-sided deal...