Daily Archives: January 15, 2021
Jewish civil-rights group protests Twitter CEO over not banning Holocaust denial
The grassroots Jewish civil-rights movement End Jew Hatred protested outside the California home of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Monday, blaring audio recordings of Holocaust-denying tweets that have not been removed from Twitter.
The group said Dorsey...
Mondaire Jones of New York seeks to call out anti-Semitism ‘wherever it exists’
Mondaire Jones made history on Nov. 3 as one of the first two openly gay black people elected to Congress by defeating four other candidates, including Republican Maureen Schulman, receiving 59.3 percent of the...
Verter fun der Vokh – Impeachment Yet Again
article of impeachment: דער אײַ֜נשולדיק־פּאַראַגראַ֜ף, ־ן
gavel: דאָס הע֜מערל, ־עך
impeach: אײַ֜נשו֜לדיקן; אימפּי֜טשן
be impeachable: ווע֜רט זײַן אימפּי֜טשמענט
impeachable offense: דער פֿאַרברע֜כן וואָס איז ווע֜רט אימפּי֜טשמענט
impeachment: די אײַ֜נשולדיקונג; דער אימפּי֜טשמענט; דאָס אימפּי֜טשן
incitement of insurrection: <דאָס אוי֜פֿהעצן צו אַ...
January 15, 1987: Note Lurie, Yiddish novelist, died
He was born in the old Jewish colony of Roskoshnaia, Zaporozhye (Zaporizhia) district, Ukraine. During a pogrom in 1919, the majority of the residents in the colony were massacred, and he moved with his...