Monthly Archives: September 2020

Following a heated all-night parliamentary session, Israel’s Knesset on Wednesday passed a law limiting public protests during the national COVID-19 lockdown. Under the law, Israelis are barred from attending demonstrations more than .6 miles from...

Walking into the Tel Aviv office of Israel National Cyber Directorate head Yigal Unna, you immediately notice a very specific memento—a very weighty plaque he was awarded by his counterparts in the United Arab...

Addressing the annual U.N. General Assembly virtually on Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed a secret arms depot belonging to Hezbollah near Beirut’s International Airport and warned that the terror group’s depot could...

Jewish groups expressed mixed reactions to U.S. President Donald Trump’s announcement on Sept. 26 that he has nominated U.S. Seventh Circuit Court Judge Amy Coney Barrett to succeed the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg on...

Baseball’s World Series was broadcast on television for the first time starting on this date in 1947. Viewing of the seven-game series, in which the all-white New York Yankees would defeat the newly integrated...

Sukkot, the joyous Jewish Thanksgiving, was originally an agricultural holiday, a time of gathering a bountiful harvest. The sukkah itself—the primary symbol of the holiday—is a reminder of hastily built shelters the Jews endured in their...

Haven  depicts the true and memorable story about the war life of Ruth Gruber who was Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes. She personally escorted and helped 984 Jewish refugees...

Over a two-day period, beginning on Sept. 29, 1941, almost the entire Jewish community of Kyiv was wiped out at a ravine on the outskirts of the city known as Babi Yar. The Nazis and...

If men or nations do evil in a good cause; if they cover themselves with guilt in order to fulfill some high responsibility; or if they sacrifice some high value for the sake of...

Jewish leaders spoke out after an anti-Semitic attack was carried out in England on Yom Kippur on Monday. Residents of a neighborhood in Bristol reported a large, bright-yellow swastika spray-painted on the hood of a...