Daily Archives: May 22, 2020
Shavuot for kids: Giving a new generation the gift of Torah
It’s one of the most dramatic scenes in the Torah, as amazing as the splitting of the sea.
Imagine the Master of the Universe coming down to Earth in an astounding fireworks display of thunder,...
Poetry: Endless Night
Editor’s Note: Maile Faust, a junior at Francis Parker School, wrote this poem inspired by Elie Wiesel’s “Night,’ during her freshman year. Her family is of mixed Jewish-Christian ancestry. Maile has seven years of...
Suddenly, Human Rights Watch discovers anti-Semitism
The drumbeat of anti-Semitism has grown louder and more assured over the last two decades. Yet it’s only with the resurgence of far right activism in the last five years or so that mainstream...
Republicans’ domestic record hurts Israel’s cause
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spent the hours leading to the Sabbath last Friday by having Israel’s back while getting his inspector general off his back.
Israel’s reputation has long been impaired in part by...
The corona cocoon: An inclusion icon shares quarantine best practices
This surreal spring season has been all about statistics. While analyzing the rates of infection and fatality, we have also been calculating the risks inherent in numerous daily activities and advising against those that will...
Small fire at Maine Jewish Museum leads to damage
A small fire was quickly extinguished in the sanctuary of the Maine Jewish Museum on Thursday, though this resulted in significant water damage, a Portland fire official told The Portland Press Herald.
“There’s a lot of water damage,”...
US envoy blasts Iranian oil shipments to Venezuela, breaking sanctions
U.S. Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook slammed Iran on Thursday for shipping oil to Venezuela.
“We think that this is another regrettable example of the Iranian regime stealing the wealth of the Iranian people to...
Palestinians suspend security coordination with CIA
The Palestinians have suspended security coordination with the CIA following an announcement to end to similar cooperation with Israel and the United States in the West Bank, announced Palestine Liberation Organization secretary general Saeb...
Justice Department files suit against New Jersey township for ‘religious discrimination’ towards Orthodox Jews
The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Wednesday that it has filed a lawsuit against Jackson Township in Ocean County, N.J., accusing its planning board with “religious discrimination” and “antisemitic conduct” towards Orthodox Jewish...
US sanctions Iran minister, senior law-enforcement officials, IRGC commander
The United States on Wednesday sanctioned Iranian Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli, seven senior officials of the country’s Law Enforcement Forces (LEF) and a provincial commander of the Islamic Republic’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps...