Daily Archives: September 20, 2019
Could Benny Gantz make the left love Israel again?
The results from Israel’s second attempt at electing a government in 2019 are like a jigsaw puzzle whose pieces don’t fit. There’s no getting around the fact that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was the...
The political downfall of Israel’s right-wing
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is fighting for his political career as he continues to get battered by a complicated parliamentary system that he has led for the past 10 years—13 years in total.
Throughout...
Austria to offer citizenship to British Jewish descendants of Holocaust survivors
Starting on Sept. 1, 2020, Austria will offer citizenship to British Jewish descendants of Holocaust survivors, thanks to changes to Austria’s nationality laws, which were approved unanimously on Thursday.
Those who fled Austria before the...
Israeli embassy in Belgium, European Jewish Association criticize anti-Semitic sign-language gesture
The Israeli embassy in Belgium this week blasted an online dictionary of Flemish sign language for using a hooked nose to describe the word “Jew.”
The Israeli embassy on Twitter expressed “shock and dismay” regarding the “ugly...
More than 2,500 expected at OU ‘Torah New York’ learning event at Citi Field
Leading rabbinic scholars, educators and Jewish communal leaders will be featured on Sunday at the Orthodox Union’s third annual Torah New York at Citi Field in New York City, where more than 2,500 men, women and...
Report: Pentagon to present military options to retaliate for Iran strike on Saudi oil
The Pentagon will reportedly present U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday military options to retaliate in the aftermath of Iran attacking two Saudi Aramco facilities on Sept. 14.
The options include airstrike targets in Iran,...
LA synagogue vandalized with anti-Semitic message
Temple Ahavat Shalom, a Reform congregation in Los Angeles, was vandalized with an anti-Semitic message.
A message of “Six million $ was not enough” was drawn in marker on the welcome sign on the temple’s...
JTS chancellor Eisen to step down after decade of progress
Jewish Theological Seminary Chancellor Arnold M. Eisen, one of the foremost authorities on American Judaism, announced that he will leave his position at the end of the current academic year after 12 years of...
Women’s March drops Zahra Billoo from board after outcry over anti-Semitism
Amid an outcry over anti-Semitic and anti-Israel tweets made by Zahra Billoo, the Women’s March reportedly voted to drop her from the board of the women’s rights group just days after her appointment.
Billoo was...
Trump: ‘I’d give visas to Iranian leaders to attend UN’
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he would give visas to Iran’s president, Hassan Rouhani, and foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, to attend next week’s U.N. General Assembly in New York.
“If it...