Daily Archives: August 6, 2019
What real incitement to murder looks like
In the wake of the latest mass shootings to afflict America, some Jewish organizations and their leaders joined in the effort to place at least some of the blame for these atrocities on President...
How to connect your grandkids to Israel
Like many Jewish grandparents today who grew up watching the miracle of Israel, I always found it challenging to connect my grandchildren to Israel and building the Jewish homeland with the same enthusiasm and...
Post-mass shootings, Tlaib labels Palestinians ‘activists’ and Israel ‘white nationalist’
In the aftermath of the Saturday shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) took issue on Monday with CNN host Jake Tapper in that Palestinian rhetoric is similar to...
Toni Morrison, who accused Israel of ‘liquidation of the Palestinian nation,’ dies at 88
Nobel laureate Toni Morrison died on Monday at the age of 88, announced the publishing company Alfred A. Knopf, adding that the cause was complications from pneumonia.
One of America’s greatest novelists, her 1987 book Beloved won a Pulitzer...
Nazi-stolen artwork, vases returned to Jewish families in Germany after 80 years
Goods stolen by the Nazis 80 years ago were returned to descendants of their original Jewish owners in two separate cases in Germany.
On Monday in Munich, nine works of art, including paintings, casts and engravings,...
Amazon aims to launch in Israel in September, ahead of elections and Jewish holidays
Amazon is reportedly aiming to open its operations in Israel in ahead of the country’s Sept. 17 elections and Jewish holidays, which fall at the very end of the month.
Were the online retailer not...
California day-school student homes in on Israeli education for ‘tzedakah’ project
A Jewish day-school student has visited ORT projects in Israel after researching the organization’s work for her school tzedakah project.
Karen Glenn, a 12-year-old at Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School in Palo Alto, Calif., decided to research...
88 US senators call on Poland to pay Holocaust victims for property stolen by...
A bipartisan group of 88 U.S. senators signed a letter on Monday to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, asking him to “act boldly and with urgency to help Poland resolve this issue comprehensively” of compensating...
El Paso’s Jewish community stands in solidarity following deadly shooting
The Jewish community of El Paso, Texas, is offering support to the Hispanic community following Saturday’s deadly attack at a Walmart in the city that borders the southern United States.
El Paso, America’s 22nd-largest city...
‘Telegraph’ report: Corbyn has ‘radicalized’ Labour members into attacking Jews
Some members of the United Kingdom’s Labour Party have become“radicalized” under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn and are now publicly attacking Israel and Jews, according to a dossier submitted to an official inquiry, The Telegraph reported.
The...