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Daily Archives: January 28, 2019

Has the Trump administration softened up Israel for the kill?

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The US Congress did the right thing, and commissioned its own independent GAO investigation of the school books used by the Palestinian Authority and UNRWA to educate the new generation. Full disclosure: Our news agency...
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Credit: Eneas De Troya/Flickr.

Israel joins world in recognizing ‘new leadership’ in Venezuela

Israel joined countries in South America and Europe on Sunday, and recognized Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó as the country’s interim president. Choosing his words carefully and refraining from specifically referring to Guaidó as the...
Remains of the AMIA Jewish center after the 1994 bombing in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Credit: La Nación via Wikimedia Commons.

Crimes go unpunished in Argentina

For more than a decade, Alberto Nisman had been investigating the worst terrorist attack ever committed on Argentine soil: the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires that killed 85...
A group of lone soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces with Mindy Levine, wife of president of the New York Yankees Randy Levine, and co-founders of Nefesh B'Nefesh Rabbi Yehoshua Fass and Tony Gelbart, during “Yom Siddurim,” or “personal errands day,” on Jan. 24, 2018. Photo by Shahar Azran.

Lone soldiers get a helping hand on annual ‘Personal Errands Day’

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Nefesh B’Nefesh and Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) hosted its sixth annual “Yom Siddurim,” or “personal errands day,” for lone soldiers on Thursday. The day, organized with the Israel Defense Forces’ Human Resources Department,...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin seen during a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow, on May 9, 2018. Credit: Amos Ben Gershom/GPO.

Israel’s security ‘top priority,’ says Russian Foreign Ministry

Russia’s deputy foreign minister denied that Moscow had formed an alliance with Iran in Syria, and said the Kremlin was deeply committed to Israel’s security in an interview with CNN on Friday. “We in no...
Roseanne Barr speaks at the March 28 “Stop the Boycott” conference in Jerusalem, which was hosted by Yediot Achronot/Ynet. Credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90.

Roseanne Barr: Residents of Judea and Samaria are ‘pioneers’

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American Jewish actress and comedienne Roseanne Barr toured Samaria on Friday as part of an international campaign against the BDS movement she is leading along with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach. Boteach and Barr met with head...
A 1944 report by German linguist Heinz Kloss, titled "Statistics, Media and Organizations of Jewry in the United States and Canada" and previously owned by Adolf Hitler, acquired in January 2019 by the Library and Archives Canada. Credit: Library and Archives Canada.

Canada obtains Hitler-possessed book chronicling North American Jewry

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Library and Archives Canada announced that it had obtained a rare book from 1944 that Adolf Hitler once possessed. The federal institution mentioned that it got the book through a well-respected Judaica seller, who received...
“Shoes on the Danube Promenade” memorial to the Holocaust on the Danube River, erected in 2005. Credit: Nikodem Nijaki/Wikimedia Commons.

Poll shows many British adults don’t believe the Holocaust occurred

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Released in time for International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a new poll commissioned by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust found that one in 20 British adults do not believe that the Holocaust occurred, and another...

What if Democrats continue on anti- Israel course?

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If hostility toward Israel grows among congressional Democrats, one wonders what will happen to the party. Maybe hordes of Democrats who support Israel will flee to the Republican Party. Republicans should be careful what they...
The Shenzhen skyline from the Nanshan District, China, June 23, 2016. Credit: Simbaxu/Wikimedia Commons.

Hebrew University to open tech centers in Chicago, China and Paraguay

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The Hebrew University in Jerusalem announced this week that it will open three tech centers in Chicago; Asunción, Paraguay; and Shenzhen, China. The centers will encourage cooperation between Hebrew University researchers and local industries, according...