Daily Archives: November 11, 2020
IsraAID Guatemala brings relief in wake of Storm Eta
Israeli humanitarian aid agency IsraAID has launched an emergency response in Guatemala following Tropical Storm Eta, which has killed more than 150 people and affected the lives of some 200,000 residents of the Central American country.
IsraAID’s...
This group wants a caliphate, and sees even Hamas as a ‘nationalist’ target
The 15,000 Muslims who crowded into the courtyards of the Temple Mount mosques on Oct. 30 became another news story about COVID-19. But the real story was much bigger: the enormous anti-France protest near the al-Aqsa...
Israel ‘on verge of elections’ over budget issue, warns Gantz
As Israel’s coalition partners continue to wrangle over the matter of the state budget, Blue and White leader Defense Minister Benny Gantz warned on Tuesday that time is running out to resolve the issue...
Facing aging and COVID, Jewish veterans stay the course, as they did during wartime
When they were young, some stormed the beaches, taking the fight to the enemy; some liberated Nazi concentration camps in Western Europe and forever bear the scars of having witnessed man’s worst inhumanity to...
Jewish voting patterns point to gain in ‘bedrock Republicanism,’ particularly in Florida
Regardless of the outcome of the U.S. presidential race, the close results and possibility of a split Congress indicate that the nation remains deeply divided politically and socially. The Jewish community is no exception.
Jeremy...
November 11, 1920: Chaike Belchatowska Spiegel, Ghetto Fighter
Chaike Belchatowska, a fighter in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising who survived to tell about it, was born in Warsaw on this date in 1920. The child of a radical mother, and a member of...