Daily Archives: May 19, 2021
Biden expects ‘significant de-escalation’ in hostilities, as relayed to Netanyahu
U.S. President Joe Biden conveyed to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday that he expects a “significant de-escalation” in hostilities today.
According to a White House readout, the two leaders “had a detailed discussion...
The Farhud pogrom: From Iraq to Israel
Rioters stormed the streets, lit synagogues on fire, looted and destroyed Jewish homes and stabbed a Jew in the back. No, it wasn’t 1938 in Germany or 1929 in Hebron. These riots were instigated...
Hamas explains why there is no peace
For most of the world, the Israeli-Palestinian dispute is a simple one in which two peoples claim the same land. It is not now nor has it ever been solely about land. The conflict...
May 19, 1588: The Spanish Armada
The Jews of Spain had their revenge on the Inquisition and the Spanish monarch on this date in 1588 when the Spanish Armada arrived in Lisbon in preparation for an attack on England, and...
Verter fun der Vokh – Poetry
אין די שולן לערנט מען זיך געוויי֜נטלעך אויס ווי אי֜בערצולייענען און פֿאַרשטיי֜ן פּאָע֜זיע. דאָס אָ֜נשרײַבן אַ ליד איז, פֿאַרשטיי֜ט זיך, אַ סך שווע֜רער, באַפֿרי֜דיקט עס אָ֜בער שטאַרק דעם שרײַ֜בער פֿו֜נעם ליד. אַז מע ווייסט ווי אָ֜נצוהייבן קען יע֜דער איי֜נער אַליי֜ן נע֜מען שרײַבן לי֜דער.
We usually learn to...