Daily Archives: December 22, 2020
Toasting to a new normal in 2021
After almost 10 months, who would have thought that we’d still be hunkering down and battling COVID-19 with another dark few months on the horizon? This New Year’s Eve, there will be no riotous...
Is a Yom Kippur-Christmas comparison naughty or nice?
“It’s said that during this time , the Book of Life is open and it’s decided who will live and who will die this year,” writes blogger Derek Powazek, whose posts focus on being...
Black (and Jewish): Braving the pitfalls, Jews of color find inner and outer peace
It’s one of the few rap videos around that features a lead singer in frockcoat, tallis and shtreimel—paired with a cascade of gold chains (one bearing a Magen David) and leopard-skin scarf—dancing with guys...
Red-state Mizrahi Israelis don’t want liberal sympathy or solutions
Liberal American Jews are generally confused when it comes to Israelis. On the one hand, they claim to have empathy and support for Jews of color. But in order to inflate the number of...
Who says Morocco never persecuted its Jews?
The news that Israel and Morocco are about to “normalize” their relations has been met with jubilation in Israel—and in the Moroccan diaspora. The first direct flight has taken off for Rabat from Tel...
Kushner leads joint U.S.-Israel visit to Morocco
Jared Kushner, senior adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump, led a delegation from Israel to Morocco on Tuesday aboard the first direct flight between the two countries as part of the ongoing U.S. effort...
US to Israel: China poses significant security threat to tech industry
A senior Trump administration official has expressed concern about security threats posed by China to Israel’s technology industry, including China purchasing “Israeli civilian technology with dual-use that could pose a national security threat to...
US imposes new sanctions on central bank in Syria, wife of Bashar Assad
The United States on Tuesday enacted new sanctions on Syria, including targeting its central bank and the wife of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
In a statement, the U.S. Treasury Department said it sanctioned two individuals,...
German court sentences Halle synagogue attacker to life in prison
A German court sentenced the shooter of a 2019 attack on a synagogue in Halle that killed two people to life in prison on Monday.
The court found Stephan Balliet, 27, a German neo-Nazi from Saxony-Anhalt, guilty...
‘Heroic’ murderer serving life sentence in Israel ‘kidnapped’ by Jewish state, claims PA
A terrorist who in 1987 murdered a pregnant Israeli mother of four and her 5-year-old son has been hailed as “heroic” by the Palestinian Authority in a televised report.
In the same report, the P.A....