Daily Archives: November 16, 2020
The US election: Preliminary lessons for America’s allies
Though the result of the 2020 U.S. presidential election is still pending litigation over allegations of fraud, many U.S. allies have been unrestrained in their expressions of happiness and relief at the prospect of...
Caligula Goes Covid: Nuclear Perils of Trump’s Last Days
“The air tonight is as heavy as the sum of human sorrows.”-Albert Camus, Caligula
It is no longer just hyperbole. Still armed with nuclear weapons, a conspicuously deranged American president may be willing to do anything...
Study: Israel second least affordable country
Israeli housing is the second most expensive in the world, a new study finds.
According to the study, conducted by Australia’s price-comparison website CompareTheMarket, the average Israeli household spends the equivalent of 26.6 percent of its...
Anti-Jewish hate crimes increased by 14 percent in 2019, according to FBI report
Jews were the most targeted demographic for hate crimes among religious groups in 2019, according to an FBI report released on Monday.
Out of the 1,650 religious-motivated hate crimes reported to the FBI, 60.3 percent, or almost...
‘Paper Bullets’ tells of lesbian resisters in Nazi-occupied Jersey
Avant-garde artists Lucy Schwob and Suzanne Malherbe advertised the fact that they were stepsisters, and hid the fact that they were lovers; their practice in deception useful in hiding their World War II roles...
Rouhani: Trump administration ‘almost carried out dictates of US extremists, Zionist regime’
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said during a recent Cabinet meeting that with the end of the Trump administration conditions would be more favorable for acting in America’s “actual interests.”
In remarks aired on Iran’s IRINN TV on...
JCPA study: How Jewish Americans voted in the presidential election
The 2020 presidential election in the United States presented unique circumstances in light of unprecedented early, mail-in and absentee voting, but also provided a focus on the role played by the so-called “Jewish vote,”...
Second Israeli astronaut to head to International Space Station
Eytan Stibbe, a former Israeli fighter pilot, will soon become the second astronaut in the country’s history, the Israel Space Agency announced on Monday in a special televised statement from the President’s Residence in...
Shira Haas, ‘Asia’ win Israel’s Ophir Awards
The mother-daughter drama “Asia” was named Best Picture at the Israeli Academy of Film and Television’s Ophir Awards, automatically becoming Israel’s entry in the Best International Feature category at the Oscars next spring. “Unorthodox”...
‘CNN’ slammed for likening Trump’s conduct to Nazi pogroms
Christiane Amanpour, Christiane Amanpour, chief international anchor for CNN, infuriated many social-media users, pundits and politicians over the weekend after she compared the White House’s conduct to Nazi actions in the runup to the Holocaust....