Daily Archives: January 20, 2020
Museum honors Holocaust survivor Ruth Harber
Ruth Harber of Valley Center and Anne Frank, one of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust, share a similar life as young teenagers: both spent two years in hiding from the Nazis...
Martin Luther King Jr.: A flesh-and-blood human
There is a growing and voluble trend among scholars and journalists that we quite some time ago let go of the real King in favor of a caricatured legend–or, as Charles Blow of The New...
Poland and Israel’s loss of diplomatic wisdom
This Thursday is supposed to mark another diplomatic triumph for Israeli diplomacy. On Jan. 23, the Fifth World Holocaust Forum will convene at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day and...
Did New York bail-reform changes take on too much too quickly?
Slated to be the cornerstone of New York State’s social-justice reform in 2020, a new law that eliminates bail for misdemeanors and some felony crimes has come under increasing scrutiny, in part because of...
Banner held at Women’s March in Chicago featured PFLP terrorist, hijacker
A group participating in the Women’s March in Chicago on Saturday held a banner featuring a member of the U.S.-designated terrorist group Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) who was involved in the hijacking...
Mother of Israeli woman jailed in Russia hopes Putin will soon grant a pardon
The mother of an Israeli-American woman currently serving a seven-and-a-half-year prison sentence in Russia on drug charges expressed hope on Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin will grant her daughter a pardon.
“I came because...
Italy will ‘absolutely’ recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, says top Italian politician
These are tumultuous days for Matteo Salvini, head of Italy’s right-wing Lega (League) Party. Recent polls have projected that were elections to be held in Italy today, he would be elected prime minister, but...
Report: Secret document shows Iran was building a nuclear weapon in 2002
A secret document seized during a raid by Israeli intelligence on a compound in Tehran in 2018 proves Iran was building a nuclear weapon back in 2002, according to an exclusive report by the...
Hundreds of Jordanians protest gas deal with Israel
Hundreds of Jordanians protested in the Jordanian capital of Amman on Friday demanding that the government cancel a natural-gas deal with Israel.
Jordanian security forces stopped the protesters from reaching the Al-Nakheel Square, where the...
Tense weekend sees stabbing attacks, explosive balloons from Gaza Strip
An Israeli man was moderately wounded in a stabbing attack on Saturday in Kiryat Arba near Hebron in Judea and Samaria, the Israel Police reported.
Moshe Greenblatt, 22, was rushed to a local hospital for...