Daily Archives: October 22, 2020
Honoring the two-year anniversary of Tree of Life shooting by strengthening communal bridges
Rabbi Jeffrey Myers, the religious leader of Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha, and several other survivors of the mass shooting that cut short the lives of 11 Jewish members of the three congregations sharing a...
Trump illustrates the right kind of American intervention
President Donald Trump’s approach to foreign policy has been subjected to harsh criticism since before he took office. Trump’s emphasis on criticizing past American interventions in foreign conflicts and his decision to employ the...
Riga land-lease agreement change could cause closing of local Holocaust museum
The Riga city council has informed the local Holocaust museum that according to the new land-lease agreement, it will have to dismantle the central part of its exposition and start paying a full market...
Tree of Life survivor: ‘There is so much goodness in the world, and we...
Two years ago, Andrea Wedner was attending Shabbat-morning services with her 97-year-old mother, Rose Mallinger, at the Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pa. That morning, Oct. 27,...
Determining next steps of next administration on Israeli-Palestinian conflict
While U.S. President Donald Trump’s first term has been dominated by domestic issues, some of his most notable moves as president relate to foreign policy, in particular with a focus on Israel. This includes...
Newly developed Jerusalem convention center to be named after Shimon Peres
Jerusalem’s International Convention Center (Binyenei HaUma) at the entrance to the city will be renamed in memory of the late Israeli statesman Shimon Peres, who died four years ago at the age of 93....
Report: State Department weighs designating human-rights groups ‘anti-Semitic’
U.S. President Donald Trump may soon declare that several prominent international NGOs, including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Oxfam are, in fact, anti-Semitic organizations, Politico reported on Thursday.
Citing sources familiar with the issue, the report...
The Black Lives Matter movement and anti-Semitism
On Aug. 28, a full-page advertisement was published in The New York Times to endorse Black Lives Matter. Claiming to represent “the majority of American Jews,” the ad not only proclaimed support for the “Black Lives Matter”...
Meet the Orthodox woman at the top of Israel’s cyber game
“On Friday morning, I have on one ear a conference call and one hand mixing cholent, and with my foot, I’m rocking the baby carriage,” says Ola Sergatchov. “That’s what my life looks like.”
Vice...
US, Bahrain to sign MOU on combating anti-Semitism
The United States and Bahrain are expected to sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on combating anti-Semitism, a senior Trump administration official told JNS.
The three-year MOU, which would be eligible for renewal, will be...