Daily Archives: March 3, 2020
Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia files Chapter 11
The Museum of American Jewish History, which operates the Philadelphia-based National Museum of American Jewish History, filed a legal action in Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania over the weekend seeking Chapter...
Artist’s series on display for first time in Croatia depicts Holocaust victims, partisans
An exhibition of 30 paintings and graphic works titled “Nazi Occupation in Graphic Works of Meer Axelrod” opened in Zagreb, the capital of Croatia—the first time the artist’s works have been shown in the...
An Esther for our times
“Was it useful?” That was Asya Shmushkevich’s question last spring as I played her the video on my phone.
Two years earlier, I’d interviewed her to spotlight the quiet crisis of tens of thousands of...
Israel’s First World problems are real, but so is its progress
Spend enough time in Israel not immersed in history and sight-seeing or being awed by its spiritual and physical beauty, and you can easily understand why so many of its citizens spend so much...
Israelis have spoken and prefer Netanyahu, though hurdles remain on way to government
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared “a giant victory” on Monday night for the Likud Party and the Israeli right-wing. With 92 percent of the votes counted, Likud won 36 seats and the right-wing/religious...
Sanders’s snub of AIPAC, slam of Israel’s premier an outrage for many conference attendees
The general consensus at this year’s annual policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) was that Democratic frontrunner Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) decision to snub the event—a requisite stop for U.S....
Palestinian cleric: Hating Jews is an Islamic religious obligation; Abbas is wrong to deny...
A Palestinian cleric criticized Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas last week for saying that any Muslim who considers himself an enemy of the Jews is a heretic.
In a Friday sermon in Jerusalem that aired...
Likud seeking defectors from the left-wing bloc to form government
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s spokesman Jonathan Urich said on Tuesday that the Likud Party is trying to convince members of the left-wing parties to defect to enable the forming of a government with at...
Gantz to supporters: ‘I share your pain and disappointment’
Blue and White leader Benny Gantz told supporters in Tel Aviv on Monday night that he shared their “pain and disappointment” as exit polls indicated a convincing win for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and...
Erekat: ‘Settlement, occupation and apartheid have won the Israeli elections’
Following the release of the first exit polls from Israel’s Monday elections, PLO Secretary General Saeb Erekat said the results would “force the people of the region to live by the sword.”
“It is obvious...