Monthly Archives: March 2021
Canadian Jews slam T-shirts comparing coronavirus vaccines to Holocaust
The Jewish community in Canada is outraged over a T-shirt created by a Vancouver woman that attempts to compare vaccinations against COVID-19 to the Holocaust, Canadian television network CTV News reported on Saturday.
TV producer Susan Standfield...
The Jewish Olympics: The History of the Maccabiah Games, by Ron Kaplan
While as a whole the Jewish people are often typecast as a cerebral people, more interested in academic pursuits than in physical prowess, Jews have at the same time held a deep love affair...
Michigan professor fired for anti-Semitic, racist and homophobic tweets
A physics professor at a Michigan university was fired on Thursday after being put on administrative leave in November for posting anti-Semitic, racist and homophobic comments on Twitter.
Thomas Brennan, who taught at Ferris State...
The Israel Innovation Fund releases ‘Wine with Adam’ interview series with prominent Israeli intellectuals
The Israel Innovation Fund’s (TIIF) flagship program Wine on the Vine—which works to promote and connect people to Israel through Israeli culture and the Israeli wine industry—has just released a new short film series...
Aish HaTorah livestreams Megillah reading to US troops in Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar
Through a request from U.S. Army Chaplain Rabbi David Becker, Aish Global livestreamed Megillah readings via Zoom to U.S. military troops stationed in Kuwait, Qatar and Iraq on both Purim evening and Purim day.
Rabbi...
Israel’s climbing R rate clouds plans to reopen economy
Israel’s Health Ministry on Monday reported that the COVID-19 virus’s reproduction rate had risen back to one. The increasing transmission rate calls into question government plans to gradually reopen the economy following the country’s...
1,800 former Israeli generals, service members urge Biden not to return to JCPOA
A group of 1,800 retired Israeli generals, officers and Mossad operatives have written a letter to U.S. President Joe Biden urging him not to return to the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran.
In the March...
Iran is fighting two parallel shadow wars, partly to seek retaliation
Recent events have demonstrated that Iran is engaging in two, parallel “shadow wars”: one against Israel and the second is against the United States. The explosive attack against an Israeli-owned cargo ship in the Gulf of...
Israel’s High Court: Reform, Conservative conversions in Israel valid for ‘Law of Return’
The Israeli Supreme Court on Monday issued a bombshell ruling that recognized conversions by the Reform and Conservative movements in Israel, therefore enabling Israeli citizenship under the “Law of Return.”
The 8-1 ruling, which ended...
Avowed white supremacist gets 19 years in prison for synagogue bomb plot
A federal court in Denver sentenced Richard Holzer on Friday to 19-and-a-half years in prison for plotting to bomb a historic Colorado synagogue in 2019.
Holzer, 28, an avowed white supremacist, pleaded guilty last year to hate...