Monthly Archives: March 2020
Nurses in training enlisted to help with corona patients
Given the anticipated shortages of hospital staff able to treat those infected with the coronavirus (COVID-19), the Israeli Ministry of Health has asked nursing schools across the country to train their students in respiratory...
Tens of thousands view prayer online at Western Wall to end coronavirus
A total of 50,000 people watched a prayer service online that took place at the Western Wall on Wednesday evening (29 Adar on the Jewish calendar), when dozens of worshipers prayed for the end of the...
Amazon reverses ban, still selling Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’
Amazon is still selling editions of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf, reversing a recent ban.
A spokesperson for the online retailer told The New York Times last week that the company enables “customers with access to a variety of viewpoints,” adding that...
YIVO goes live on Facebook! Here’s this week’s schedule
Monday, March 30, 1:00pm (EST):
Ben Kaplan (Director of Education) and Stefanie Halpern (Director of the YIVO Archives) discuss our online class, Oh Mama, I'm in Love! The Story of the Yiddish Stage
Tuesday, March 31, 1:00pm (EST):
Stefanie Halpern (Director of...
Being Consumed By That Which We Want To Consume
The elephant in the room of public discourse today is obviously the Corona virus. We are bombarded with so much information about the disease, as if all the information in the world could truly...
Younus Kathrada, islamologue canadien : le fait de s’allier aux juifs et aux chrétiens...
Dans un sermon prononcé le vendredi 20 mars 2020 au centre Muslim Youth of Victoria, au Canada, le cheikh Younus Kathrada a demandé pourquoi les musulmans ne prenaient pas l’injonction d’Allah de s’éloigner du...
Journaliste syrien sur l’accord de supervision iranienne en Syrie : que peut offrir aux...
Le 23 janvier 2020, la Syrie et l’Iran signaient un protocole d’accord relatif à l’éducation mentionnant, entre autres, l’engagement iranien à rénover 250 écoles en Syrie, à aider à la formation du personnel éducatif,...
Major Orthodox groups urge Jews to limit Passover prep to just the ‘essentials’
Leaders of six major Orthodox organizations released a joint statement on Monday asking Jews to limit preparations for Passover to only essentials as a further measure against the health threat presented by the coronavirus...
Colel Chabad aids Israel’s most at-risk during pandemic and ahead of Passover
Colel Chabad will distribute food stamps to an additional 30,000 families living below the poverty line, as approved by Israel’s Ministry of Welfare, in order to provide security for Israel’s most at-risk population during...
Neo-Nazi youth taunt Jewish student in New Jersey
The brief chant erupted from the New Jersey Transit train car crammed with raging white teens: “Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil!”
A few years ago, I boarded the northbound New Jersey Transit’s Coast Line train at...