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Daily Archives: January 20, 2020

Ruth Harber (second from left) and family at liberation. (Family photo)

Museum honors Holocaust survivor Ruth Harber

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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...
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is widely considered the most influential leader of the American civil rights movement. King, both a Baptist minister and civil rights activist, had a tremendous impact on race relations in the United States, beginning in the mid-1950s. He was a visionary leader who was intensely devoted to achieving social justice through non-violent means. (U.S. Air Force graphic/Airman 1st Class Eboni Reece)

Martin Luther King Jr.: A flesh-and-blood human

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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...
Holocaust survivor Edward Mossberg with Polish president Andrzej Duda at a ceremony at the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in Poland, on April 12, 2018. Photo by Yossi Zeliger/Flash90.

Poland and Israel’s loss of diplomatic wisdom

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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...
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, meets with Jewish leaders in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Williamsburgh amid a spike in anti-Semitic attacks. Source: Twitter.

Did New York bail-reform changes take on too much too quickly?

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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...
Leila Khaled. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Banner held at Women’s March in Chicago featured PFLP terrorist, hijacker

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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...
Yaffa Issachar, mother of Naama Issachar, an Israeli-American woman jailed in Russia on marijuana charges, speaks to the media at Israel's Ben-Gurion International Airport on Jan. 19, 2020. Photo by Flash90.

Mother of Israeli woman jailed in Russia hopes Putin will soon grant a pardon

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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...
Matteo Salvini speaks during a Lega Nord rally in 2013. Credit: Fabio Visconti via Wikimedia Commons.

Italy will ‘absolutely’ recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, says top Italian politician

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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...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu exposes files smuggled out of Iran which Israel claims detail the Islamic Republic's illicit military nuclear program, April 30, 2018. Credit: Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO.

Report: Secret document shows Iran was building a nuclear weapon in 2002

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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...
View of the Israeli Leviathan gas-processing rig as seen from Dor Habonim Beach Nature Reserve on Jan. 1, 2020. Photo by Flash90.

Hundreds of Jordanians protest gas deal with Israel

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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...
Palestinians prepare an incendiary device to be launched near the Israel-Gaza border in the southern Gaza Strip, on Jan. 18, 2020. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

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...