Daily Archives: July 15, 2020
Memories of a Tisha B’Avs past
I am writing this on a long, lazy Tisha B’Av afternoon. The sky is brilliant blue and a gentle breeze is beckoning me outside to get on my bike. No, not today. I must...
Israel’s Law of Return at 70
In July 1950, the Law of Return was passed unanimously by the Knesset, establishing the principle that every Jew, wherever he lives, is entitled to immigrate to Israel—that Diaspora Jews have the “right of aliyah.”
The...
Visiting Auschwitz is not the answer
American Jews are making a mistake. When Philadelphia Eagles football player DeSean Jackson made blatantly anti-Semitic remarks, Jewish Patriots player Julian Edelman invited him to visit Auschwitz. In fact, Jackson has accepted an invitation from Edward Mosberg, a...
How Iran uses charities and humanitarian organizations as cover to export its revolution
A new report that maps out the ways in which Iran’s overseas elite unit, the Quds Force, operates in Syria under various guises has called on the United States to designate three organizations tied to the...
ViacomCBS fires TV host Nick Cannon over comments
Viacom CBS has fired Nick Cannon after the actor, rapper, director and TV host propagated anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and praised Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who has an extensive history of making anti-Jewish remarks, announced the...
‘Hebron is the Wuhan of Palestine’
The coronavirus situation in the Palestinian Authority is far worse than is being reported by the Palestinian media, according to Al-Ayyam columnist Abd al-Nasser al-Najjar.
In a July 11 column, Al-Najjar called the P.A. negligent for its...
Netanyahu said to be furious at Gantz for blocking COVID-19 restrictions
Israel’s Likud and Blue and White parties traded barbs following a meeting of top officials on Tuesday, each blaming the other of playing politics instead of focusing on the coronavirus pandemic.
“The irresponsibility of Blue...
Edelstein: Israel will likely have to initiate a full lockdown next week
In a tense meeting of top officials on Tuesday, Israeli Health Minister Yuli Edelstein said that unless the country’s COVID-19 numbers don’t change within the next three days, “there would be no option but...
Germany charges Nazi concentration-camp guard, 95, with war crimes
A German court announced on Monday that a 95-year-old former Nazi concentration-camp guard was charged with war crimes during the Holocaust.
The suspect was a guard at the Stutthof concentration camp in a wooded area near Danzig...
ADL offers up to $10,000 reward for those tied to anti-Semitic attack in Brooklyn
The New York Police Department is investigating a possible bias-crime attack against a Jewish man on Saturday, and now the Anti-Defamation League is offering a reward to help catch the assailants.
According to NYPD spokesman...