Daily Archives: November 8, 2018
‘Real Time’ Jewish America and Trump
In an interview with HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” ahead of Tuesday’s midterm congressional elections, New York Times op-ed staff editor Bari Weiss blamed U.S. President Donald Trump for the Oct. 27 massacre of Jews at the...
Nuclear decision-making and nuclear war: an urgent American problem
Carl von Clausewitz wrote, “Everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult.” His classic warning remains starkly relevant to the United States, nowhere more so than in the context of nuclear war....
Canadian premier apologizes for nation’s failure to save German Jews on ‘St. Louis’
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau officially apologized for his country’s 1939 refusal to allow entry to a ship carrying more than 900 Jewish refugees from Nazi oppression.
Trudeau made the statement at the House of...
Ethiopian Israelis celebrate annual Sigd holiday
Jewish Ethiopians celebrated the holiday of Sigd on Wednesday, with schools around Israel engaging students in special programming to teach about the unique Ethiopian Jewish holiday.
Sigd, a holiday of supplication and yearning to return...
Israeli startup develops breakthrough in radiation cancer therapy
An Israeli medical technology company that developed a breakthrough in radiation cancer therapy announced on Wednesday it would begin clinical trials with leading medical institutions in Italy with the target of receiving approval from...
Netanyahu to visit Austria for anti-Semitism conference
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz announced on Wednesday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will travel to Vienna for meetings and to attend a conference on anti-Semitism, the first visit by an Israeli prime minister...
US Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg being treated at DC hospital after fall
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been hospitalized after falling in her Supreme Court office on Wednesday night, fracturing three ribs on her left side, according to the court in a statement.
Ginsburg,...
Contrasting reactions in Arab world to Gulf states’ harbingers of normalization with Israel
Three events in three Arab Gulf states in the past week have reflected these countries’ process of normalization with Israel. On October 26, 2018, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Oman, accompanied by the...
Florida governor-elect Ron DeSantis: ‘I will be aggressive against BDS’
If there is one American politician who has made support for Israel a daily agenda item, Florida governor-elect Ron DeSantis is that person.
DeSantis,a Republican who for six years served in the U.S. House of...
Nearly 30 percent of Germans believe Jews use ‘dirty tricks’
Eighty years after the Kristallnacht (“Night of Broken Glass”) pogrom, nearly one-third of Germans harbor varying degrees of anti-Semitic beliefs, new research has revealed.
Although the research, conducted by Leipzig University in conjunction with the...