Daily Archives: June 19, 2020
Vera Lynn, the voice of resistance against the Nazis, dies
Vera Lynn, who sang the songs that touched the hearts and lifted the spirits of Britons from the bomb-blitzed streets of London and Coventry to the sands of North Africa and the jungles of...
Don’t blame George Floyd’s death on a Palestinian shopkeeper
Was the killing of George Floyd partly the fault of Muslim racism and the desire of immigrant shopkeepers to uphold the rule of law? According to an article published in The New York Times, which...
Vindication for Kaepernick, awakening for White America
In defense of Colin Kaepernick, I made the supreme sacrifice four years ago: A one-time high school chum de-friended me on Facebook. He could not believe how liberal I had become – all because...
Jewish music bigs Benny Friedman and Mordechai Shapiro belt it out for charity
More than 5,000 people tuned in to the virtual “Battle of the Singers,” featuring well-known Jewish entertainers Benny Friedman and Mordechai Shapiro, and sponsored by the Orthodox Union’s Yachad leading organization for individuals with...
Facebook removes Trump campaign ads, including one with Nazi prisoner symbol
Facebook removed Trump campaign ads on Thursday that targeted the far-left Antifa movement, including one with an downward-pointing red triangle that apparently resembled a Nazi designation symbol for political prisoners in concentration camps.
Facebook removed the ads...
Sen. Hoyer, 115 Democrats sign letter objecting to Israeli annexation
U.S. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and 114 other Democrats have signed onto a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz to express opposition to Israel possibly applying...
New model by Israel Aerospace Industries uses AI to forecast changes in COVID-19 patients
Israeli defense company Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has developed a model that predicts changes from one day to the next in the medical status of COVID-19 patients, using artificial intelligence, big data and machine-learning...
Bolton: Netanyahu ‘dubious’ about Kushner leading Mideast peace initiative
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seemed “dubious” about White House senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner leading the Trump administration’s Mideast peace plan, according to former U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton in his...
ADL joins with other civil-rights groups in calling for July boycott of Facebook
The Anti-Defamation League, along with several civil-rights groups, is calling for corporations to boycott Facebook in July over its unwillingness to ban hate speech on the social-media company’s platform.
The groups, including the National Association...
California police investigate toppled fountain attached to Holocaust memorial
A Holocaust memorial fountain in Santa Rosa, Calif., was vandalized this week.
The fountain at Santa Rosa Memorial Park was “toppled onto the ground in pieces,” reported The Santa Rosa Press Democrat.
The memorial was built in 2016 by...