Daily Archives: September 4, 2020
Social distancing in the Warsaw Ghetto
“I was told that these were human beings. They didn’t look like human beings.”
With these haunting words, the Polish resistance fighter Jan Karski recalled his agonized reaction as he walked around the Warsaw Ghetto...
Justified contempt for the International Criminal Court
It’s the sort of thing that infuriates those who have been complaining for three-and-a-half years that the Trump administration has no respect for the norms and traditions of international diplomacy. By placing sanctions on...
Wiesenthal Centre to Spanish Prime Minister: “Cancel Antisemitic Summer Course on ‘Apartheid in Palestine...
In a letter to Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, the Simon Wiesenthal Centre Director for International Relations, Dr. Shimon Samuels, had commended Spain “for adopting, on 22 July, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Definition...
Netanyahu calls ‘Times’ report on F-35 sale to UAE ‘false allegation’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed a report in The New York Times that suggested he did not oppose the U.S. sale of F-35 fighter jets and radar-blocking planes to the United Arab Emirates as part of the...
IDF’s precision-rocket battalion prepares for complex battlefield
Under the cover of darkness in southern Israel, dozens of rockets pierced the night sky, flying out of their launch pods before exploding into targets some located dozens of kilometers away. The specialized drill—dubbed...
Biden meeting with Jacob Blake Sr. draws attention to past anti-Semitic statements
Amid the ongoing debate in the United States over race, social-media posts by Jacob Blake Sr., father of 29-year-old Jacob Blake, who was shot seven times by Wisconsin police on Aug. 23, appears to...
GOP congressman calls Biden’s pledge to restore US funding to Palestinians ‘mental incoherence’
A Republican member of Congress has slammed Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden for pledging to restore U.S. funding to the Palestinians in accordance with the Taylor Force Act, calling Biden’s pledge a display of “mental incoherence.”
“You...
US Surgeon General briefs Jewish leaders on best practices for High Holiday gatherings
The Surgeon General of the United States, Dr. Jerome Adams, briefed Orthodox Jewish leaders on COVID-19 and best practices for High Holiday services during a virtual talk and Q&A session sponsored by the Orthodox...
“God bless America”, written by Irving Berlin
“God Bless America” is an American patriotic song written by Irving Berlin during World War I in 1918 and revised by him in the run up to World War II in 1938. The later...
“Flower and song: the voices of the Yiddish poets murdered in the Soviet Union”,...
An incredible task by the Idishe Shtub Mx, IWO Buenos Aires and the Kehila Ashkenazi of Mexico based on a script written by Lererke Vele Zabludowsky Z ”L and with an intervention by Lerer...