Daily Archives: April 14, 2021
Ahead of Israel Independence Day, Jerusalem Cinematheque releases rare historical videos
The Jerusalem Cinematheque’s Israel Film Archive recently launched an innovative website featuring Israeli cinema through its generations.
The new website, which includes 7,000 items, is accessible and free of charge in both Hebrew and English, the Cinematheque...
Pollard brings Torah scroll he commissioned while in jail to Joseph’s Tomb
Convicted spy for Israel Jonathan Pollard on Monday night dedicated a Torah scroll that he brought to Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus.
He commissioned the writing of the Torah scroll 12 years ago, while he was...
Remembering my brother keeps him alive
For me, every day is Yom Hazikaron. Since I lost my older brother, Ezra, to a terrorist attack on Nov. 19, 2015, not a day has gone by that I do not think about...
Biden’s bad foreign-policy deals
Because Barack Obama struck me as a clever fellow, I never understood why, when negotiating with despots, he failed to utilize the leverage available to him.
For instance, he might have said to Russian President Vladimir...
Memorial Day ceremony honors fallen Israeli soldiers from ‘haredi’ units
A memorial service in honor of fallen Israel Defense Forces soldiers and those from the haredi (ultra-Orthodox) units, adapted for the religious community, was held at Jerusalem’s Shalva Hall on Tuesday night and broadcast online to...
Anti-Semitic football play-calling in Massachusetts town hints at long history of ‘systemic bias’
In this well-groomed coastal town, members of the small Jewish community and others are trying to determine why its vaunted high school football team used the terms “Auschwitz,” “rabbi” and “dreidel” while calling plays...
Bipartisan bill proposed to reclaim Holocaust-era unpaid insurance policies
Legislation brought forth in the U.S. Congress on Tuesday would allow insurance beneficiaries to recover billions in unclaimed payments from World War II.
The Holocaust Insurance Accountability Act of 2021 was re-introduced by Rep. Debbie...
Palestinians worry Fatah will postpone elections using eastern Jerusalem issue as pretext
Por S. Schneidmann
Preparations are currently underway in the Palestinian Authority for elections to the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) and to the P.A. presidency, scheduled for May 22 and July 31, respectively. In previous P.A....
In first, Israel’s Arab sector holds Memorial Day service
In a historic first, a Memorial Day ceremony was held on Tuesday to commemorate fallen Arab soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces.
The event, which took place in the Arara village in the Negev Desert,...
Netanyahu on Memorial Day: ‘We mustn’t remain indifferent to threats of annihilation’
Israelis across the country stood silent at 11 a.m. on Wednesday morning as sirens blared for two minutes to mark Israel’s Memorial Day.
During the siren, fighter jets flew a special aerial salute over the...