Daily Archives: July 23, 2019
Don’t Miss Hannah Senesh
HANNAH SENESH (a play with music and song)
Previews July 24 – 28; Performances July 29 – August 18, 2019
An award-winning play.
Written and Directed by David Schechter.
Developed in collaboration with Lori Wilner.
Based upon the diaries...
AMIA 25 years on: Insult, injury and Argentina’s upcoming election
In 2006, Argentine government lawyers led by the federal prosecutor Alberto Nisman formally named the eight leading Iranian officials who planned the bombing attack 12 years earlier, at 9:53 a.m. on July 18, 1994,...
Netanyahu’s accomplishments will stand for decades
Currently at the head of a caretaker government between two elections in the same year, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has become the longest-serving prime minister in Israeli history, breaking the record set by...
Boris Johnson, Britain’s newest leader, once described himself as a ‘passionate Zionist’
LONDON—In August 2014, Boris Johnson, who was then mayor of London, described himself as a “passionate Zionist” and declared Israel as a “great country.”
Speaking on LBC radio, Johnson, who on Tuesday won the race...
Boris Johnson becomes UK prime minister amid Brexit, tensions with Iran and anti-Semitism in...
Boris Johnson overwhelmingly was elected by his Conservative Party on Tuesday to become the next party leader and prime minister of the United Kingdom.
In his victory speech, Johnson, who defeated Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt...
Hamas launches Facebook page for its ‘Liberation Vanguards’ summer camps
Hamas’s military wing, the ‘Izz Al-Din Al-Qassam Brigades, or simply Al-Qassam Brigades, launched a Facebook page on Sunday titled “Tala’i’ Al-Tahrir” (Liberation Vanguards).
The page, which features the group’s activities and military training in the...
IAEA chief Yukiya Amano dies at 72, led agency in overseeing Iran nuclear deal
The director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Yukiya Amano, died at the age of 72, announced the agency on Monday.
Amano led the nuclear watchdog since 2009 and oversaw the 2015 Iran nuclear deal...
Hebrew inscriptions revealed at Great Synagogue dig sites in Vilnius, Lithuania
Hebrew inscriptions were discovered for the first time since the beginning of the excavation project to expose the Great Synagogue of Vilna, Lithuania, which was burned during the Holocaust and demolished by the Soviets.
According...
For Israeli children coping with loss, a week of hope and healing
Losing members of one’s family to violence is traumatic for anyone, let alone the very young. Unfortunately, this is something too many Israeli children have experienced—terrorism and war have torn asunder thousands of Israeli...
Netanyahu is ‘darkness,’ Trump and Kushner his ‘messengers’—song on official PA TV
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is the “darkness” and U.S. President Donald Trump and his senior adviser Jared Kushner are his “messengers,” according to a music video broadcast by official Palestinian Authority TV last...