Daily Archives: October 1, 2020
European Jewish group sounds alarm over Polish bill banning kosher-meat exports
Europe’s largest Jewish umbrella organization expressed alarm on Thursday over an animal-welfare bill in Poland that would ban exports of kosher meat.
“This draft law is of deep, deep, concern to European Jewry. It puts...
Maccabee Task Force urges pro-Israel, Jewish students to forge ties with African-American community
This year’s Maccabee Task Force conference for students and professionals across America and Canada highlighted the importance of forging ties between Jewish and Israel groups with black groups on campus. Because of the coronavirus...
Trivializing the true evil of Nazism
There is clearly no limit to the depths of moral perversity that the enemies of President Donald Trump are prepared to plumb, not least within America’s Jewish community.
The Jewish Democratic Council of America has...
A tale of two Palestinians
Leila Khalad hijacked a TWA flight a half-century ago and her fans in America encourage her to blab her head off. Rami Aman reached out to young Israelis a half-year ago, and Hamas jails...
Saudi Arabia uncovers terror cell trained in Iran by Revolutionary Guards
On September 23, Saudi Arabia revealed the existence of a terrorist cell in the kingdom trained by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). A Saudi government spokesman said that 10 operatives, three of whom...
Israel and Lebanon agree to US-mediated border talks
Israel and Lebanon announced on Thursday their intention to participate in U.S.-mediated talks, with the aim of settling their maritime border dispute.
The dispute has been ongoing for decades, but became more urgent following natural-gas...
Gov. Newsom vetoes California ethnic-studies bill requiring high school anti-Israel curriculum
California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would make ethnic-studies courses a high school graduation requirement.
Newsom, a Democrat, cited the ongoing pushback over the curriculum for why he vetoed the measure, AB-331.
“I value...
Israeli-British journalist has been banned for life from entering America
Israeli-British journalist Jonathan Spyer revealed in an article in The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday that he is “banned for life from entering America.”
Spyer received a document from the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem in 2019, in...
In settlement with US Education Department, NYU to revise its discrimination policy
New York University has reached a settlement with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) following a complaint filed on behalf of a student that cited multiple anti-Semitic incidents on campus, the first...
Israel, Nepal sign agricultural cooperation agreement
Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi on Wednesday signed a cooperation agreement between the Israeli Agency for International Development and Cooperation and the Nepalese Agriculture Ministry, seeking to bolster cooperation in the field.
Israel’s Foreign Ministry...