Monthly Archives: December 2020
Lebanese president to US official: Impasse in maritime border talks can be overcome
Lebanese President Michel Aoun told a U.S. mediator on Wednesday that his country’s differences with Israel regarding the two countries’ maritime border dispute could be overcome through negotiations after the border talks were postponed on Monday.
“The...
Israeli medical team aids COVID-19 battle in northern Italy
An experienced team of 20 doctors and nurses from Israel’s Sheba Medical Center flew to northern Italy at midnight on Dec. 2 to assist a local hospital dealing with a serious outbreak of COVID-19.
This...
Joint Arab List fumes as Ra’am Party head skips vote to dissolve Knesset
Members of the Joint Arab List are up in arms after Ra’am Party head Mansour Abbas, along with three of his fellow party members, skipped a vote to disperse the Knesset on Wednesday.
Faction officials went so...
European Union makes move to combat anti-Semitism
A key body of the European Union adopted a declaration on Wednesday to combat anti-Semitism.
The Council of the European Union is comprised of government ministers from the 27 E.U. member-states, who meet to make...
Anti-Semitism watchdog urges Georgetown to act over article insulting Kristallnacht
The Combat Anti-Semitism Movement, an anti-Semitism watchdog group, is calling on Georgetown University to take concrete action over an article in a publication of one of its programs.
The article, written by Austrian political scientist...
The magic of Kadya Molodwsky’s children’s poetry – now in English
A new bilingual edition of Kadya Molodowsky’s enchanting Yiddish children’s poetry was recently published in Sweden. Edited and masterfully translated into English by Yaira Singer, “Through an Endless Stretch of Land” makes some of the most...
December 3, 1857: Dr. Carl Koller, an opthalmologist who pioneered the use of cocaine...
Dr. Carl Koller, an opthalmologist who pioneered the use of cocaine as a local anesthetic, was born in Bohemia on this date in 1857. A medical colleague of Sigmund Freud in Vienna, Koller recognized...
Lighting up a world of darkness: Celebrating Hanukkah in a corona winter
Just saying the word “Hanukkah” brings smiles. As does conjuring up the sight of candles ablaze and hearing the sounds of boisterously off-key renditions of “I Had a Little Dreidel” and “Maoz Tzur.” And...
Combating surging anti-Semitism means rooting out under-the-radar sources
Here’s the bad news about anti-Semitism in America: It’s surging. According to a recently released FBI report, hate crimes against Jews rose 14 percent last year.
But here’s the “good” news: The U.S. government has agreed to...
Those prickly Jews …
I’ve been binging on “The West Wing,” and there was an episode where the president’s assistant gives him the gift of a Joe Biden,Biden Administration,Reema Dodin,Anti-Israel Bias. The president is enamored with the map...