Daily Archives: April 13, 2020
The challenges, and beauty, of this year’s Passover holiday
In Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared complete lockdown for Passover Seder night, threatening arrest or a fine to anyone found on the streets. No, he wasn’t overreacting, and he’s not planning on turning...
Streaming Sephardic movies
There are fewer movies about the Sephardim than ones about Ashkenazim, and many of those that do exist aren’t available for streaming. Here’s a partial list of some you can stream at home.
Daniel Deronda:...
A pandemic anti-Semitism ceasefire? Not a chance
Two weeks ago, something highly unusual happened. The United Nations praised Israel. The cause for this remarkable exception to the general rule of the world body’s Israel-bashing was the cooperation between Israel and the...
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Covid-19 hits Haredim in Israel, N.Y., N.J., and Florida
It must be a bad dream – the spectacle of police in New York City and Lakewood, N.J., breaking up Orthodox Jewish funerals.
What was a mitzvah a few months ago has morphed into a...
In reply to 140 U.S. Jewish leaders
What if American Jews read on the front pages of The New York Times and the Washington Post that Israeli Jews would estrange themselves from American Jews, if the latter chose to vote for a president who was...
The Trump Presidency: A Breathtaking Assault on Law, Justice and Security
“At the beginning of the pestilence and when it ends, there’s always a propensity for rhetoric….It is only in the thick of a calamity that one gets hardened to the truth, to silence.”
– Albert...
Maj. Gen. Eyal Zamir: ‘We have to make the most of the IDF’s abilities...
Israel Defense Forces’ Deputy Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Eyal Zamir, the military’s point man with respect to managing the pandemic, is something of a lonely man these days. Given the restrictions imposed due...
Sovre la vida i la egzistensya en la eternitad
Amo la vida i kero bivir mas i mas….
La vida no perdona los ke kedan tadre… Es un largo kamino i todo modo de situasyones ke eksperimentamos , lo mas sin kererlos o kuando...
Israel’s death toll rises to 110; former chief rabbi dies of COVID-19 complications
Five Israelis succumbed to COVID-19 overnight on Monday, bringing the national death toll to 110. Four of the fatalities were elderly individuals with pre-existing medical conditions, while no details have yet been released regarding...
Report: IRGC brass to donate nearly a quarter of their pay to help with...
The top echelon of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have agreed to take a 20 percent pay cut to help efforts to battle the coronavirus pandemic in Iran, the Middle Eastern country hit...