Daily Archives: March 12, 2020
Honoring the Jew who created Iran’s first English-Farsi dictionary
As most Americans focused on Super Bowl Sunday last month, nearly 600 Iranian Jews gathered at the West Hollywood Temple Beth El to mark 50 years since the death of Solaiman Haiim, one of...
Holocaust memorials set in pavement in Berlin in memory of Jews deported
Nearly 50 Holocaust stone memorials were recently set into the pavement around a major German publisher’s new main office in Berlin in honor of the dozens of Jews deported from the city in the 1940s.
Publisher Axel Springer...
Sick of (or now possibly from) Jewish dating? There’s another option …
Sick and tired of the Jewish dating scene?
You might still be tired of it, but at least this way, it won’t get you sick.
In response to fears about the potential spread of the coronavirus...
A virus is uniting us, whether we like it or not
I read in The New York Times this week that German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned that two-thirds of the German population could end up infected by the coronavirus.
That would be 55 million people—in one country alone.
Meanwhile,...
Jewish and religious leaders must denounce Sanders campaign aides
Louis Farrakhan and David Duke are surely thrilled about the long list of Jew-hating Israel-bashers working for U.S. presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders. The Sanders squad of Jew-hating surrogates and senior campaign advisers includes Linda Sarsour;...
Biden’s revival means a return to Obama’s Middle East policies
As far as many Democrats are concerned, the possibility of one nightmare has been averted. Now they think it’s time to make the other bad dream in the form of President Donald Trump go...
Battling coronavirus, Israel bans gatherings of more than 100 people
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday announced a new directive banning gatherings of more than 100 people, alongside a directive for anyone with COVID-19 symptoms to self-quarantine immediately.
Speaking at a press conference in...
Republican Jewish Coalition conference postponed amid spread of coronavirus
The Republican Jewish Coalition announced on Tuesday that it has postponed its annual conference, scheduled for this weekend, because of the coronavirus outbreak.
“In light of the COVID-19 epidemic, in consultation with the White House...
Erekat: Israel’s ‘apartheid road’ is the start of its ‘E1 colonial plan’
Israel’s plan to build a road connecting Jerusalem and the E1 area of Judea and Samaria represents the start of Israel’s “colonial” program to “sever the contiguity” of a future Palestinian state, PLO Secretary...
US State Department changes name of eastern Jerusalem Palestinians in annual report
The U.S. State Department has changed its official description of Palestinians living in eastern Jerusalem from “Palestinian residents” to “Arab residents” or “non-Israeli citizens” in the department’s annual global human-rights report released on Wednesday.
The majority of...