Daily Archives: April 5, 2019
Hot for the holiday: Passover gets more interesting every year
When food-industry insiders entered the Meadowlands Exposition Center in Secaucus, N.J., for the annual Kosherfest trade show back in November, you could almost understand why their thoughts were on Passover.
Displays of matzah boxes and...
What would Menachem Begin think about Israel’s elections?
Respect is always slow in coming for national leaders who are labeled as conservatives. In the United States, this has led to a dynamic by which politicians who are demonized by the left during...
A festive Passover table, with hints of east and west
For American Jews, observant or secular, Passover is a big deal. In fact according to a Pew Report, almost 70 percent American Jews attend a Passover seder. It’s a time when friends and family...
O’Rourke compares rhetoric on immigrants from White House to that of Third Reich
Former Texas congressman and current 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke compared rhetoric from the White House to language rampant in Germany during the Third Reich, in which Jews and other minorities were compared...
Book Review: ‘Giraffes on Horseback Salad’
Try to picture the words in this book’s title: “Giraffes on Horseback Salad.” Can you picture it? A giraffe astride a horse; two legs on one side of the horse’s midsection, two legs on...
In South Africa, one step forward, two steps back
“Not as much as we had hoped, but we have advanced nonetheless!” With these words, the “” of South Africa last week greeted the news that the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) top decision-making...
Record at a glance: Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan supports Israeli self-defense, though favors Iran...
U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan, 45, announced his candidacy on Thursday for the Democratic nomination for president in 2020.
Serving in the House of Representatives since 2003, the Ohio congressman has emphasized Israel’s right to defend...
International Union of Muslim Scholars urges imams to preach armed jihad against Israel
On April 1, 2019, the International Union of Muslim Clerics (IUMS) proclaimed Friday, April 5, 2019 as a “Day of Support for Jerusalem, Al-Aqsa and Gaza,” and urged Muslim preachers worldwide to devote their...
Spanish judge rules city’s cancellation of Israeli festival due to BDS unconstitutional
A Spanish judge recently ruled that a city’s cancellation of an Israeli film festival due to its support of the BDS movement violates the country’s constitution.
The city council in the port town of Cádiz,...
Oklahoma City reels from anti-Semitic, white-nationalist graffiti attacks
Over the last week, swastikas, anti-Semitic, anti-LGBT, racist white-nationalist symbols and epithets defaced five public places in Oklahoma City and Norman, starting at the state’s Oklahoma City-based Democratic Party headquarters. Similar incidences of graffiti...