Daily Archives: July 15, 2020
Pelosi endorses Omar for re-election to Minnesota seat
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has endorsed Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) for re-election in Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District, announced Omar’s campaign on Monday.
In touting endorsements from Pelosi and Minnesota House of Representatives Speaker...
Tel Aviv University touts ‘unprecedented’ Hebrew paper by Saudi academic
In what Tel Aviv University is calling an “unprecedented” development, the latest issue of one of its academic journals includes an article in Hebrew by a senior Saudi academic.
The paper, titled “Contribution to Prophet Muhammad’s...
Israeli Cabinet approves $7 billion ‘Safety Net’ economic rescue program
Israel’s Cabinet on Monday approved the remaining elements of the “Safety Net 2020-2021” rescue plan for the country’s struggling economy as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
The Cabinet approved a draft law for several...
Boris Sandler, Treplekh aroyf tsu a nes: a sibe far a mesibe
On Sunday 12 July 2020, the Congress for Jewish Culture together with the California Institute for Yiddish Culture and Language, and Yung Yidish of Tel Aviv honored the Yiddish writer Boris Sandler, celebrating his...
July 15, 1913: Avrom Sutskever, great Yiddish poet, is born
(1913–2010), Yiddish poet. Born in Smorgon’, a small industrial city southeast of Vilna, Avrom Sutzkever spent his early childhood in Omsk, Siberia, where his parents took refuge from the invading German armies during World War...
Verter fun der Vokh: דער פֿע֜רצעטער יו֜לי – Bastille Day
דער 14טער יולי איז געוואָרן אַ נאַציאָנאַלער יום־טובֿ בײַ די פֿראַנצויזן ווײַל אין יענעם טאָג אין 9871 האָט מען געשטורעמט די באַסטיל, באַפֿרײַט די מלוכה־געפֿאַנגענע, און דערמיט האָט זיך אָנגעהויבן די פֿראַנצייזישע רעוואָלוציע.
!פֿרײַהייט, גלײַכקייט, ברידערשאַפֿט
July 14th became a national holiday in...