Daily Archives: December 11, 2020
Pre-Hanukkah Dubai event joins Jews and Arabs from Middle East, North Africa
Amid the newly rebuilt “Abraham’s Tent,” Arabs and Mizrahi Jews joined together under one roof in Dubai—the most populous city in the United Arab Emirates—exploring the historic kinship of and future alliances between the...
After The Trump Horror Will America’s Next President Be “Normal?”
After enduring four years of a soiled and dissembling presidency, US voters are entitled to raise a once inconceivable question. Before voting in the 2024 presidential election, they should inquire with appropriate seriousness: “Are these...
Interior secretary Bernhardt helps light National Menorah for consecutive year
U.S. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt helped light the National Menorah on the Ellipse across from the White House in Washington, D.C., on Thursday for the second year in a row.
The eight-day holiday of Hanukkah...
Anti-Squad Republicans Should Be Careful to Not Overreach
Rashida Tlaib’s mantra “From the river to the sea” may soon compete with “From the Narrows to the Potomac.” Or “Biscayne Bay to the Potomac.”
“From the River…” etc. is meant as the stretch of...
PM Netanyahu’s remarks on the establishment of relations between Israel and Morocco
Following are Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's remarks, this evening (Thursday, 10 December 2020), on US President Donald Trump's statement on the establishment of relations between Israel and Morocco, at the Western Wall, at the...
WATCH: Six great Yiddish Hanukkah recordings
מע קען הײַיאָר, צום באַדויערן, ניט פֿאָרן אויף קיין חנוכּה־שׂימחות. פֿון דעס וועגן קען מען פֿאָרט פּראַווען דעם יום־טובֿ אויף אַ הנאהדיקן אופֿן בשעת מע צינדט די ליכטעלעך.
ווי אַזוי קען מען טאַקע שאַפֿן אַ...
December 11, 1942: Slave laborers revolt
On this date in 1942, some 500 Jewish slave laborers in a concentration camp in Lutsk, Ukraine, planned a revolt against Nazi troops who were coming the next day to liquidate the camp. Having...