Daily Archives: October 6, 2020
Holocaust survivor, diplomat and presidential adviser Richard Schifter dies at 97
Holocaust survivor, former U.S. diplomat and presidential adviser Richard Schifter died on Oct. 4 at the age of 97.
Schifter was born in Vienna on July 31, 1923, and fled alone to America at the...
Following up a 101-year-old tragedy
The 1918-1919 “flu” epidemic took between 2,800 and 7,500 Nebraska lives, 974 of them in Omaha. On July 4, 1919, the weekly Omaha Jewish Bulletin published “Breaking Lives and Homes for Profit.”
It read:
Fanny Skulke came with...
Movie Review: The Photographer of Mauthausen
The Photographer of Mauthausen (TPOM), available on Netflix, is a Spanish film directed by Mar Targarona. The film is written by Roger Danès and Alfred Pérez Fargas.
It is based on the true story of Francesc...
Palestinians’ most dangerous enemy is … archaeology
Pundits will tell you that the most dangerous enemies of the Palestinian Arab cause are the Gulf kingdoms that have decided to recognize Israel, or the European countries that are moving their embassies to...
America doesn’t have to choose between appeasing Turkey or Iran
Does it matter that Turkey appears to think that it can relitigate the outcome of World War I? That’s the question observers were forced to confront last week when its president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan,...
Ex-Nazi hunter calls on Barr to block Erekat from entering US for Harvard post
American attorney and ex-Nazi hunter Neal Sher has called on U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr to deny Palestine Liberation Organization Secretary-General Saeb Erekat entry into the United States to mentor students at Harvard University.
In...
YouTube removes Nation of Islam channel over hate-speech violations
YouTube has taken down the Nation of Islam (NOI) channel from its platform.
According to YouTube, the NOI channel was removed on Oct. 2 for violating YouTube’s policies against hate speech.
“We have strict policies prohibiting...
Israeli educators fear that distance learning will lead to ‘lost generation’
Those Israeli parents who are still working face a near-mission impossible when it comes to making sure their children are keeping up with their schoolwork.
According to Joint Chairman of the Parents Leadership in Ra’anana Odelia Shindorf,...
Israeli lawmakers in hot water for flouting lockdown rules
Israeli Environmental Protection Minister Gila Gamliel found herself in hot water on Monday, after it became clear that she violated lockdown restrictions during Yom Kippur.
Gamliel confirmed on Saturday that she has contracted the coronavirus,...
Israeli coronavirus Cabinet: Too early to analyze lockdown data
Israel’s ministerial “coronavirus Cabinet,” convened on Monday by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to weigh the enforcement and effects of the current nationwide lockdown, concluded that another week would be needed to analyze the data...