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Daily Archives: January 21, 2021

Lena Küchler (center), director of the children's home in Zakopane, Poland, with the children and staff in 1945. Credit: Yad Vashem.

‘Restoring My Lost Childhood’: Exhibit spotlights how children’s homes revived the youngest Holocaust survivors

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It’s been 75 years, but Yaakov Guterman can still recall nearly everything about the nine months he lived in Zakopane, Poland. He remembers that all of a sudden in this group home for children who’d...
Elie and Marion Wiesel at the 2012 Time 100 gala, April 24, 2012. Credit: David Shankbone via Wikimedia Commons.

Virtual 90th-birthday event honors Marion Wiesel’s support of Ethiopian Jewry

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In celebration of Marion Wiesel’s 90th birthday, the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity and Women’s International Zionist Organization (WIZO) will hold a star-studded virtual event with a performance by Israeli singer, songwriter and musician Idan Raichel on Jan....
A protest in Buenos Aires marked the one-year anniversary of the death of Alberto Nisman, the Argentinian federal prosecutor who was investigating the AMIA Jewish center bombing, January 2016. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Justice is elusive six years after the murder of Alberto Nisman

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This week marks six years since Argentine Special Prosecutor Alberto Nisman was found lifeless in his apartment. He was found dead the day before he was to provide evidence to the Argentine Congress he...
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu meets with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden in March 2016. Photo by Amos Ben Gershom/GPO.

The changing of the guard in US-Israel relations

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Like many American policies now expected to undergo an about-face following the inauguration of 46th President Joe Biden, U.S.-Israel relations may be gearing up for a great reset. The past four years featured punishing sanctions...
Chuck Schumer Foto: Demócratas del Senado vía Flickr CC BY 2.0

Democrats take control of the Senate: Schumer becomes the first Jewish Majority Leader in...

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The US Democratic Party took control of the Senate, now dominating both houses of Congress and the White House. Progressives took control of the Upper House after Georgia's two new senators, Raphael Warnock and Jon...
Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.), bottom right, is sworn into office on Jan. 20, 2021. Source: Screenshot.

Jon Ossoff sworn in as first Jewish senator from Georgia

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Jon Ossoff was sworn in on Wednesday as the first Jewish U.S. senator from Georgia. Taking the oath on a Bible from the rabbi at The Temple in Atlanta, which was bombed by white supremacists...
Dana Stroul. Source: Screenshot.

Biden picks Dana Stroul to lead Pentagon’s Mideast desk

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U.S. President Joe Biden has picked Dana Stroul to lead the Pentagon’s Middle East desk, reported Al-Monitor. Stroul, currently a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, was a senior official on the U.S. Senate...
Benny Begin during a Foreign Affairs and Security Committee at the Knesset on April 30, 2018. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.

Benny Begin to join Gideon Sa’ar’s New Hope Party

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Former Israeli minister Benny Begin announced on Thursday that he is joining Gideon Sa’ar’s New Hope Party as a candidate for the Knesset in Israel’s upcoming March 23 elections, the party said in a...
Israeli health care workers administer coronavirus tests at a drive-through facility in Lod on Jan. 18, 2021. Photo by Yossi Aloni/Flash90.

Israel’s COVID-19 R-number drops below one, indicating infections may be slowing

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Israel’s COVID-19 transmission rate—also known as the reproduction or R-number—has fallen below one for the first time since October, Israeli media reported on Thursday. The reports cited Israel’s Military Intelligence Directorate as saying that the...
Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Gilad Erdan, in his first address to the Security Council, Oct. 26, 2020. Source: Facebook/Gilad Erdan.

Israel’s UN envoy steps into role of US ambassador

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Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan on Thursday assumed the role of ambassador to the United States, taking over from Ron Dermer, who held the position for the past seven years. This is...