Daily Archives: April 19, 2021
Israel and Greece sign $1.6 billion defense agreement
Israel and Greece announced on Sunday the signing of a defense cooperation agreement worth approximately 5.4 billion shekels ($1.6 billion).
The agreement includes the establishment of a flight training center for the Hellenic Air Force,...
Hezbollah steps up preparations for Lebanon’s collapse
Lebanon’s Hezbollah terror organization is advancing its preparations for the possibility that the state may collapse, Reuters reported on Friday.
The group is expanding its food ration card system, importing medicine and preparing storage for fuel to...
Israeli schools resume full activity
Israel’s education system resumed full activity on Sunday, following a government decision based on low coronavirus transmission rates.
Grades one through 12 returned to in-school learning at full capacity, with no restriction on movement between...
Going a capella for the period of Jewish mourning
When comedian Mendy Pellin posted on Twitter that “Sefira music is the audio equivalents of Pesach cereal,” he was referring to the recent trend of Orthodox singers to produce albums and singles of a capella music...
Warsaw Ghetto: In Memoriam. Film Short based on true event
The Warsaw ghetto uprising began in the early morning hours of Erev Peysach, April 19, 1943.
Based on a true story that took place on April 19, 1943, a small group of surviving Jews gather...
Eva’s Black n’ White Meringues
Base Recipe: Eva Giesener, z”l
My Mom used to make Black-N’-White Cookies. Those cookies were to simply incredible. Of course, I am biased, but in my humble opinion, they were right up there with the...
The Golden Age of Judaism in al-Andalus – Part 2
The Jews in Toledo
In 1085, Alfonso VI recaptured Toledo and thus marked the limit of the cross and the crescent. The Christian monarchs protected the Jews, who were very useful in administering the new...
The importance of intuition for knowing the world
A couple of days ago, I was involved in a discussion about attitudes towards accepting something as the truth. More precisely we talked about the dichotomy of certainty vs. doubt. Many of the most...