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Daily Archives: November 18, 2019

The site of the former Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. A controversial new law passed by Poland's parliament is rooted in Polish resentment when Auschwitz and other Nazi German concentration camps are referred to as “Polish death camps.” Credit: Giraud Patrick via Wikimedia Commons.

Truth is not selective: Poland vs. Netflix

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Poland’s government won an important victory on the battleground of history last week. It succeeded in persuading the entertainment-streaming service Netflix to amend a newly released World War II-based documentary that implied, through one of its...
Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon. Credit: Courtesy.

UN ambassador Danon slams Sanders over remarks on annual assistance to Israel

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Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon slammed Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who is running for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, on Sunday for saying recently that a portion of the U.S. military assistance to...
Chief Rabbi of EMIH–Association of United Hungarian Jewish Congregation Rabbi Shlomo Koves shakes hands with Hungarian Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén, Nov. 18, 2019. Credit: MTI.

Hungary recognizes Orthodox Jewish community for first time since World War II

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The Hungarian government signed a special agreement with the Orthodox Jewish Communities Association (EMIH) to officially grant the country’s Orthodox community with “special status” for the first time since World War II. The title, which...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement to the press after a security cabinet meeting following the escalation of violence in with the Gaza Strip, in Tel Aviv on Nov. 12, 2019. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.

Netanyahu: Gantz’s plan to form minority government with Arab parties is ‘madness’

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Likud lawmakers during an emergency conference call on Saturday that the Blue and White Party intends to form a minority government supported by the Arab parties, something he...
Smoke rises after an Israeli airstrike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on Nov. 13, 2019. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

Israel strikes Hamas targets after two rockets fired at Beersheva

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Israel struck several Hamas installations in the Gaza Strip on Saturday after two rockets were fired at the city of Beersheva from the coastal territory, setting off warning sirens. According to Israeli military sources, the...
Emergency Volunteer Project Deployment director Eitan Charnoff (center) and volunteer U.S. firefighters Spencer MacWilliams (left) and Jake Papageorgio at a fire station in Jerusalem. Credit: Courtesy.

US, Israeli firefighters work side by side as rockets fall

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As rockets fell on southern and central Israel last week, a team of U.S. firefighters worked side by side with their Israeli counterparts to extinguish brush and building fires, and deal with other emergencies. The...
A view of New York University’s campus in Greenwich Village. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

NYU department co-sponsors anti-Israel speaker, rejects request to host pro-Israel one

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New York University’s Asian/Pacific/American Studies Institute has denied a pro-Israel student’s request to host a Zionist speaker in response to an event it hosted last month with anti-Israel Palestinian-American lawyer Noura Erakat, according to...
The American Jewish pop band Haim performing in 2013. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Jack Black, Flaming Lips and Haim among those to join Hanukkah album

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A holiday-inspired music album titled “Hanukkah+” will be released on Nov. 22 and feature a collection of Jewish classics and originals from artists, including Haim, the Flaming Lips, Jack Black and Yo La Tengo, The Rolling Stone reported. The album, produced...
British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn speaking at the #StopTrident rally at Trafalgar Square, on Feb. 27, 2016. Credit: Garry Knight via Wikimedia Commons.

British public figures sign letter refusing to vote Labour over anti-Semitism scandal

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wenty-four British public figures signed an open letter refusing to vote for the Labour Party in the United Kingdom’s Dec. 12 general elections due to party leader Jeremy Corbyn’s multiple ties to anti-Semitism. The letter to The...
John Demjanjuk in Israel's Supreme Court in Jerusalem. Photo by Flash90.

Netflix to edit Demjanjuk docuseries after pressure by Polish government

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Netflix says it will edit its documentary miniseries “The Devil Next Door,” about alleged notorious Nazi guard John Demjanjuk after Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki complained of inaccuracies in the series, Variety reported on Thursday. Morawiecki said in a letter to...