Daily Archives: April 29, 2019
Yale Strom’s composition SONG OF SONGS will premiere with San Diego Ballet
Yale Strom's composition SONG OF SONGS will premiere with San Diego Ballet May 24-26 as part of the San Diego Jewish Arts Festival at the Lyceum Theatre.
Featured musicians are: Elizabeth Schwartz - vocals, Alex...
Prime Minister Netanyahu: Learn from PM Shamir – How to Respond to NYT Cartoon
The blatantly anti semitic and anti Israel cartoon which ran in the New York Times leaves one to wonder how Prime Minister Netanyahu should respond.
The time has come to learn from the example of...
Poverty isn’t the cause of terrorism, so let’s stop blaming it
It turns out that the Islamist terrorists who slaughtered more than 350 people in Sri Lanka came from one of that country’s wealthiest families. This news will surely come as a surprise to those...
Israeli minister links Chabad synagogue shooting and anti-Semitic ‘Times’ cartoon
In a Facebook post about Saturday’s synagogue shooting in Poway, Calif., Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan claimed the shooter had been influenced by a blatantly anti-Semitic cartoon that appeared last week in The New York Times.
Erdan...
Kaliv Chassidic leader Rabbi Menachem Mendel Taub dies at the age of 96
Kaliv Chassidic leader and Holocaust-remembrance advocate Rabbi Menachem Mendel Taub passed away on Sunday at his home in Jerusalem at the age of 96.
Thousands attended the funeral of the haredi religious leader on Sunday afternoon.
Born in...
From Pittsburgh to Poway
When a natural or human-made disaster strikes my community, it’s my natural instinct to write about it. That was the case when floods devastated Houston year after year after year, and now again after the shooting at Chabad of Poway,...
‘The New York Times’ apologizes for running anti-Semitic cartoon
The New York Times issued an official apology on April 28 over their publishing of an anti-Semitic cartoon on April 25.
The cartoon, which appeared in the Times’ international edition above a column about immigration from Thomas...
Chabad puts out statement expressing concern about more anti-Semitic attacks
Chabad-Lubavitch leaders worldwide are warning Jewish communities about the possibility of more anti-Semitic attacks like the Saturday synagogue shooting in Poway, Calif., on the last day of Passover.
In a message put out after the April...
Sderot residents among wounded in California Chabad synagogue shooting
Two of the victims of Saturday’s shooting at the Chabad synagogue in Poway, Calif., were former residents of the rocket-beleaguered Israeli town of Sderot, and had come to the United States for respite from...
Outrage ensues over anti-Semitic cartoon published in ‘The New York Times’
”The New York Times International Editionprinted a political cartoon during Passover featuring U.S. President Donald Trump wearing a yarmulke, sporting dark-tinted glasses and being led by a dog with the face of Israeli Prime...