Monthly Archives: April 2020
‘Care with a Prayer’ offers chance to support health-care workers worldwide
Momentum, previously known as the Jewish Women’s Renaissance Project, launched “Care With a Prayer,” a global campaign to pray for health-care workers fighting the coronavirus.
Anyone can visit www.carewithaprayer.org to request the name of a doctor, nurse,...
April 24, 1942: Barbra Streisand, American actress, singer, songwriter, director, and producer, was born
Barbra Streisand is an award-winning performer on stage, television, and in motion pictures, as well as a recording artist of popular music.
Younger years
Barbara Joan Streisand was born on April 24, 1942, in Brooklyn, New...
טויזנטער פֿרומע ייִדן שענקען פּלאַזמע צו העלפֿן די קאָראָנאַ־געליטענע
לאַנג איידער ס׳רובֿ מענטשן האָבן אָנגעהויבן רעדן וועגן בלוטפּלאַזמע, האָט ד׳׳ר שמואל שוהם זיך שוין געכאַפּט, אַז דאָס בלוט פֿון די, וואָס האָבן זיך אויסגעהיילט פֿונעם קאָראָנאַ־ווירוס, וואָלט געקענט העלפֿן די פּאַציענטן, וואָס זענען...
Streaming the Armenian genocide
On April 24, 1915 the Ottoman Empire arrested approximately 250 prominent Armenians and deported them a month later to the Turkish interior where most of them were killed. Armenians annually commemorate April 24th as Armenian...
Meet Deni Avdija
When discussing the history of Jewish people in the NBA, there are usually very few. The two names heard most frequently are usually Jordan Farmar, a very good backup point guard for the Lakers...
Do the Jews really need a Conference of Presidents?
Blame it all on John Foster Dulles.
The origins of an entity that has long been considered the focal point of organizational advocacy for Israel dates back to 1956, when President Dwight Eisenhower’s secretary of...
From San Remo to its 72nd birthday, Israel survives the virus of political and...
One hundred years ago this Sunday, the four principal allied powers involved in World War I signed a resolution at San Remo. Next week, Israel celebrates Yom Ha’atzmaut, the 72nd anniversary of the state’s...
Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon reports its first case of coronavirus
A woman from Syria has become the first person in the sole Palestinian refugee camp in eastern Lebanon to test positive for the coronavirus, reported the Associated Press on Wednesday.
UNRWA, the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency, said that all...
Israel’s coronavirus death toll reaches 191, with 14,592 confirmed cases
Israel’s coronavirus death toll currently stands at 191, the country’s Health Ministry reported on Thursday, with 14,592 confirmed cases of infection since the start of the pandemic.
There are currently 136 COVID-19 patients in critical...
Bank of Israel: COVID-19 school closures costing the state NIS 2.6 billion a week
The Bank of Israel reported on Thursday that the shutdown of the country’s education system due to the coronavirus pandemic is costing Israel NIS 2.6 billion ($735 million) per week. According to the report,...