Daily Archives: January 8, 2021
Confederate flag is found tied to door of Jewish museum in New York City
A Confederate flag was discovered tied to the front door of the Museum of Jewish Heritage–A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in New York City early Friday morning.
The museum, located in Battery Park City...
Remembering Yitzhak Shamir
As Israel enters its fourth election cycle in two years, it’s important to go down memory lane to see how we got to where we are.
The late former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir’s granddaughter,...
Bowman in for a congressional reality lesson
As he experiences his first week in Congress, Jamaal Bowman (D-New York) will start on a path to do everything he suggests that former Rep. Eliot L. Engel failed to do and perhaps even...
Donald Trump: The un-American president
Move over, James Buchanan. The 15th president of the United States of America is regularly ranked by historians as the worst-ever holder of that hallowed office—a one-term commander-in-chief whose unctuous appeasement of pro-slavery forces...
Biden names Orthodox woman to senior National Security Council position
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden is expected to appoint Anne Neuberger, an Orthodox Jewish woman, to serve in a newly created cybersecurity position on the U.S. National Security Council.
The expected pick was first reported by Politico on Wednesday. The...
Newly installed Republican congresswoman apologizes for Hitler comment at rally
Rep. Mary Miller (R-Ill.) apologized on Friday for saying on Jan. 5 that “Hitler was right on one thing.”
“Earlier this week, I spoke to a group of mothers about the importance of faith and guarding our youth from...
Khamenei mocks America after ‘fiasco’ on US Capitol
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei mocked the United States on Friday, following the mob invasion of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.
In a 50-minute televised speech, Khamenei said: “This is their democracy; this is...
Israel must study and learn from prospective Russian cyber breach of US networks
Israel’s National Cyber Directorate, which is in charge of defending critical infrastructure, needs to study every detail of the massive suspected Russian cyber breach of 250 government and private-sector networks recently uncovered in the...
Jewish groups welcome European handbook on anti-Semitism
European Jewish groups welcomed the publication of a handbook for the practical use of the Working Definition of Antisemitism of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) as a tool to fight against Jewish hatred...
Debate over Qatar: Is blockade-ending move positive for Middle East?
Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates ended their three-and-a-half-year blockade against Qatar on Tuesday—a move whose implications appear to have mixed ramifications on issues surrounding the Middle East, according to foreign-policy experts.
Saudi Arabia...