Daily Archives: July 22, 2019
Verter fun der Vokh: דער ווײַן – Wine
bouquet: די בלום; דער בוקע֜ט
cork (n.): דער פּראָפּן, ־ס; דער קאָ֜ריק, קאָ֜רקעס; דער שפּונט, ־ן
cork (v.): פֿאַרפּראָ֜פּקעווע|ן; פֿאַרקאָ֜רקעווע|ן
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If your travels are taking you to Vilna
Reading Vilna in Jewish Writing and Urban History: A Collaborative Conference
Every great city deserves a Baedecker, and Wilno-Vilna-Vilnius has had several, none more capacious than Zalmen Szyk’s 1000 yor Vilne (1000-year Vilnius), published in...
Israel condemns European Parliament for hosting Palestinian terrorist
Israel has condemned the European Parliament for recently inviting a Palestinian terrorist to speak at the venue, and is urging the European Union to take steps to prevent members of designated terror groups from...
New HBO series is ringing alarm bells for its depiction of Israeli society
Media watchdog organization CAMERA is raising questions about an upcoming HBO series, “Our Boys,” about the brutal murder of a Palestinian teenager Muhammad Abu Khdeir by a Jewish gang in 2014.
https://youtu.be/a4AVfDnwCIE
“When HBO released the...
French family: ‘In Israel, we’ll worry less about the security of our children’
Among news consumers, the first association one has with the State of Israel is often war and religious violence. However, for many Jews who choose to immigrate to Israel—or “make aliyah”—the Jewish state is considered...
Israel’s under-20 basketball team takes home European title for second year in a row
The Israel under-20 men’s basketball team defeated Spain 92-84 to win its second consecutive European championship.
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu congratulated the team and told them, “You have done something incredible and have brought great...
Bennett and Shaked hold talks on New Right reboot prior to September elections
Just 10 days before all political parties must announce their slates for the upcoming Sept. 17 national election, New Right Party leader Naftali Bennett met with his former deputy Ayelet Shaked in a last-ditch...
UK warns of ‘serious consequences’ following tanker seizure by Iran
The U.K. government has announced that it will be taking diplomatic and economic measures against Iran in the wake of the seizure of the British-flagged oil tanker Stena Impero in the Strait of Hormuz earlier on...
‘An attack on Iran? We were very serious; it was no bluff’
Benjamin Netanyahu became the longest-serving prime minister in Israeli history this week, if we add his three years in office after the 1996 election to his past 10 and a half years as prime...
Belarus Torah reborn in Colonie
Editor's note: In the mid-1980s, Belarus was part of the Soviet Union sharing the mother country's long history of anti-Semitism which included medieval massacres and pogroms. The Encyclopaedia Judaica describes a militia attacking a...