Daily Archives: July 10, 2020
Book chronicles 4,000 years of Jewish leaders
Essentials of Jewish History: Jewish Leadership Across 4,000 years, Brandon Marlon, Vallentine Mitchell, London © 2020, ISBN 978-1-912676-18-7, p. 514 plus bibliography and index, $89.95.
Jewish presence across the last four thousand years of recorded...
Jews aren’t indigenous to Israel? According to whom?
There are a lot of things wrong with woke culture. While the impulse to demonstrate solidarity with the oppressed and opposition to bad things like racism is, in principle, praiseworthy, the virtue signaling is...
World Jewish leaders: ‘Paradigm has shifted,’ as Israel emerges as pillar in corona crisis
In somewhat of a role reversal, Israel has emerged during the global coronavirus crisis as the main supporter of Jewish communities worldwide.
In a Wednesday briefing with Jewish Agency for Israel chairman Isaac Herzog and...
Senators call for kosher, halal food in federal emergency coronavirus programs
U.S. Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) have called on U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue to ensure that kosher and halal food are included in federal emergency food programs in response to the...
Congressman DesJarlais Requests Department of Education Investigation of Middle East Studies at Yale
Rep. Scott DesJarlais (R-TN) has become the fifth member of Congress to call for an examination of a Title VI-funded Middle East studies center during this session of Congress. He wrote to Secretary of...
US House Republicans pen letter to Pompeo in support of Israeli sovereignty
A group of U.S. House Republicans has penned a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in response to a letter sent to him last month by their Democratic colleagues that threatened the conditioning or...
University of Wisconsin Hillel discovers ‘Free Palestine’ spray-painted on building
The outside of the Hillel building at the University of Wisconsin in Madison was vandalized on Tuesday, according to the organization.
The words “Free Palestine” appeared on the concrete structure that welcomes people to the...
Chief of staff, 10,000 IDF soldiers in quarantine after possible exposure to COVID
IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi, along with 10,000 active duty and civilian employees, were ordered to quarantine on Thursday after being in close contact with people infected with COVID-19.
Kochavi is entering isolation for...
Danon: Obama’s decision to ‘abandon’ Israel was lowest moment of UN tenure
Israel’s outgoing Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon reflected on his last five years in office and plans for the future during his final press briefing on Tuesday.
Danon’s first move upon returning to...
What The U.S. Coronavirus Response Says About American Exceptionalism
Coronavirus cases in Florida, Arizona and South Carolina are increasing faster than in any other country in the world, reigniting the debate over American exceptionalism. Nick Schifrin talks to former Mexican foreign minister Jorge...