Daily Archives: March 26, 2020
Museum of Jewish Heritage offers free online educational resources for those at home
New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage–A Living Memorial to the Holocaust is offering several online resources for parents, teachers and students as the museum remains temporarily closed in accordance with COVID-19 social-distancing restrictions.
For parents...
In his final act as Knesset Speaker, Edelstein ‘upholds dignity’ of Parliament
In the latest chapter in Israel’s political dysfunction, longtime Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein dramatically resigned his post on Wednesday rather than fulfill an overreaching order of the Supreme Court to hold an immediate vote...
Social distancing brings new challenges, opportunities for Jewish students
Social distancing in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has affected America’s college campuses in myriad ways. While the cancellation of the NCAA March Madness tournament was perhaps the most visible disruption for non-students, the dozens of...
Ending a year of political paralysis, Gantz and Netanyahu poised to form unity government
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin and his main challenger, Blue and White leader Benny Gantz, moved toward establishing a unity government on Thursday after agreeing that the latter would serve as the new Knesset speaker.
If...
Sefrou, the « Little Jerusalem » of Morocco
A city of proverbial tolerance
North of Morocco, not far from the imperial city of Fez, lies the locality of Sefrou in the lap of the Atlas mountains. It was in the nineteenth and the...
Israeli universities, institutes lead the fight against coronavirus
Israeli universities and institutes—and their affiliated academics, researchers, doctors, scientists and students—are leading the fight against the coronavirus. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, the Technion‒Israel Institute of Technology, Rambam Health Care Campus, Migal Galilee...
Israeli Health Ministry: Only 1,500 ventilators; another 2,864 ones expected
At present, Israel has only 1,500 ventilators in stock that are “usable and available,” Israeli Health Ministry director general Moshe Bar Siman Tov said on Thursday, contradicting a report presented to the country’s parliament...
Right fumes as High Court orders Knesset to name new speaker
Right-wing politicians were outraged with Israel’s High Court of Justice on Thursday after it ordered the Knesset to go ahead with the necessary vote to replace Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein, who dropped a political...
‘Israel’s Arabs are pulling away, not integrating’
Middle East scholar professor Raphael Israeli, 84, recently returned to the Jewish state from a research trip abroad and went straight into coronavirus quarantine. But Israeli, who is among the world’s preeminent students of...
Edelstein’s sudden resignation as Knesset speaker leaves country’s political future uncertain
Israel’s political chaos took another surprise twist on Wednesday when Speaker of the Knesset Yuli Edelstein suddenly resigned. The snap decision by Edelstein came after he rejected an order by Israel’s Supreme Court to...