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Daily Archives: March 24, 2020

The mouth of the Miami River at Brickell, a neighborhood in the city's financial district. Credit: Marc Averette via Wikimedia Commons.

Orthodox Jewish leaders in Florida dissuade Passover visitors due to coronavirus

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Ahead of Passover and deep into the coronavirus pandemic, Orthodox Jewish leaders and medical professionals in Florida have warned against an exodus of visitors from their homes to the Sunshine State to celebrate the...
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AJC starts #BeAMensch initiative to promote and encourage kindness

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The American Jewish Committee launched a new initiative on Thursday called #BeAMensch to encourage and showcase “acts of kindness and decency” during the coronavirus pandemic. Mensch is Yiddish work that means “a person of integrity and...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on March 16, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Israel’s coalition crisis deepens with High Court ruling on Knesset Speaker

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Amid Israel’s aggressive attempts to contain the coronavirus pandemic, the country’s democratic system has been thrown into an unprecedented and multilayered crisis, now embroiling the executive, legislative and judicial branches of its government. For over...
Delegates at the First Zionist Congress in 1897 in Basel, Switzerland. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

The Zionist Congress election and the truth about American Jewry

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It’s been derided as irrelevant and a relic of the distant past that ought to have been junked decades ago. But the World Zionist Congress election that has just concluded generated more interest and participation than...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Credit: Wikipedia.

Turkey and coronavirus: Devout Muslims will defeat the ‘Jewish plot’

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Turkey’s fight against the coronavirus pandemic is generally accepted to be rational, well-timed, not too badly planned, and fairly effective. At the time when the German case figure was 7,000 (and the Dutch and...
The “Hall of Names” commemorating victims of the Holocaust at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. Photo: David Shankbone via Wikimedia Commons.

Last German honored as ‘Righteous Among the Nations’ by Yad Vashem dies

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Gertrud Steinl, the last living German honored by Yad Vashem—the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem—for saving Jews during the years of World War II and the Holocaust, died on March 22 on the eve of...
Supreme Court president Esther Hayut arrives to a hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on March 19, 2019. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90

Israel’s Supreme Court orders vote, says Knesset speaker ‘undermining democracy’

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In an unprecedented move, Israel’s Supreme Court ordered Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein to hold a vote for a Knesset speaker on Wednesday, just an hour after the speaker ignored a non-binding call by the court to...
A homebound elderly woman in Israel feeling the isolation. Credit: IFCJ.

Homebound seniors in Israel battle isolation, loneliness during pandemic

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While a number of Jewish organizations are focused on helping the elderly in Israel, who are at a higher risk of getting extremely sick from the coronavirus (COVID-19), not get infected with coronavirus, the...
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UJA-Federation of New York announces $23 million in grants, loans amid pandemic

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The UJA-Federation of New York (UJA) on Monday announced more than $23 million in immediate financial assistance to help New Yorkers affected by coronavirus. The grants and loans are intended to offer immediate relief to...
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivers remarks to the media in the press briefing room at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on June 13, 2019. Credit: State Department Photo by Michael Gross.

Pompeo: Iranian officials stole more than $1 billion in coronavirus assistance

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Iranian officials have stolen more than $1 billion in European assistance to combat the coronavirus pandemic, instead pocketing the funds for themselves, alleges U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Iran has the sixth-most confirmed coronavirus cases with 23,049,...