Daily Archives: July 13, 2018
A double whammy for the Jews of France
The sun may have been shining, but these are dark days for the Jews of France.
They have sustained a double whammy.
The first is that the murderer of Sarah Halimi, who shouted “Allah Hu Akbar”...
Whatever happened to the ADL?
When Jonathan Greenblatt replaced Abe Foxman as national director of the Anti-Defamation League in 2015, the shift from a career Jewish professional to a veteran Democratic Party operative with no experience working in the...
Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz Z’L, American writer, and political activist for racial and Jewish women’s rights
Though the content of our mission is not specifically feminist, we have modeled feminist activism... – Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz
Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, an activist, active since the early 1960s civil rights movement in Harlem died Monday from Parkinson’s disease,...
One Year Later: The Answer to ‘Where are your Jews?’
Testimony by UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer, delivered before the UN Human Rights Council, July 3, 2018:
Mr. President, one year ago in this chamber I asked the Arab states a simple question: 'Where...
Israel to expedite investment in the developing world
The Cabinet will, at its weekly meeting on Sunday, 15 July 2018, will decide to join the global effort for international development.
Israel will create solutions for development goals that have been set by the...
Trip to Yiddishland Aug. 13-19 is almost sold out
Led by Kolya Borodulin, with renowned Yiddish language and culture teachers Miriam Hoffman, Chava Lapin, Sheva Zucker, Eugene Orenstein, Shane Baker and superb klezmer
musicians Deborah Strauss, Zisl Slepovitch, Aaron Alexander, Yiddish theater director Motl...
Suspect in anti-Semitic murder of French woman found unfit to stand trial
Kobili Traore, the Malian immigrant who allegedly killed Jewish physician Sarah Halimi in her home in Paris in 2017, is unfit to stand trial following a court-ordered evaluation, French media reported on Thursday.
This was the...
Swiss ambassador issues lukewarm apology to Hebron Jews after activist slaps child
Switzerland’s ambassador issued a half-hearted apology to the Jewish community of Hebron in Judea on Friday, two days after a Swiss man from a radical-left observer group slapped a 10-year-old Jewish boy from the...
What makes a Palestinian parent proud? A son who recruits suicide-bombers
One of the signs of the Palestinian Authority’s successful indoctrination of its population to admire terrorists who have murdered civilians, is when parents of terrorists openly say they are “proud” of their terrorist sons, or describe...
Greater numbers of senior citizens are making aliyah, according to report
The idea of aliyah—Jews immigrating to Israel from the Diaspora—generally conjures up the image of young single people or young families. But plenty of people aged 65 and over also make the decision to come...