Daily Archives: May 12, 2020
Indelible: Photographing the daughters of Holocaust survivors
Israeli photographer Debbie Morag was born in the Bergen-Belsen Displaced Persons camp. Her photographs of the daughters of Auschwitz survivors testify that the memory of the Holocaust never leaves them. An exhibition of these...
Streaming Latin American Jewish movies
Anita (Argentina: 2008): A Down syndrome Jewish girl wanders the streets of Buenos Aires in search of her mother after the AMIA bombing.
Family Law (Argentina, France, Italy, Spain): Jewish son and father explore their differences and...
Does gospel-preaching ‘Shelanu’ TV channel violate Israeli law against proselytizing?
A new television channel “Shelanu” just came on air that may violate Israeli broadcasting laws against missionizing. GOD TV has signed a seven-year contract with Israeli cable-television company HOT, giving it the ability to...
Now, a new government amid a pandemic
For more than a year, Israelis have gone to the polls three times. On each occasion, they have produced a tie, more or less, between the major blocs. With neither one able to form...
Empathy, Pandemic, and “America First”: Legal Meanings for a Nation in Peril
“What does not benefit the entire hive is no benefit to the bee.” -Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
From the beginning, Donald Trump’s ideology of “America First” has been misconceived. In essence, any concocted presidential notion that exploitative...
Defending Israel’s skies in an era of pandemics
Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, the Israeli Air Force’s Air Defense Array has continued to stand guard, monitoring and protecting Israel’s skies against a range of enemy threats, but with some adjustments.
“The recent period has...
Israel prepares to reopen eateries, institutes new sanitation measures
Israel’s Ministry of Health, Ministry of Economy and Industry, and companies in the restaurant industry are slated to sit around the table on Wednesday to discuss how to ease open bars and eateries after...
Israeli Health Ministry top official resigns as coronavirus emergency subsides
Health Ministry director-general Moshe Bar Siman Tov resigned on Tuesday after managing Israel’s response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.
“I notified today to the prime minister and the health minister that I decided to resign...
Report: France wants tough response if Israel goes ahead with annexation
France is pushing members of the European Union to consider threatening Israel with tough consequences if it goes ahead with its plan to annex parts of Judea and Samaria.
Belgium, Ireland and Luxembourg want to...
ADL: Number of anti-Semitic incidents in US hit record high in 2019
The number of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States in 2019 were the most in at least four decades, according to a report released on Tuesday by the Anti-Defamation League.
There were 2,107 reported anti-Semitic...