Daily Archives: May 20, 2021
The erasure of Jewish victims: NGOs on violence in Israeli cities
When it comes to Israel, there is an easy test to determine if a non-governmental organization (NGO) truly believes in universal human rights, in contrast to empty virtue-signaling. Ask: What does this group say...
Children’s Literature: The Candy Man Mystery
SAN DIEGO – Rabbi Kerry Olitzky, author of The Candy Man Mystery, is primarily known as a Jewish educator having served as a dean at the Hebrew Union College—Jewish Institute of Religion and as...
The Story Behind The Matzo Project
BROOKLYN, New York — I dreamt up the idea to make artisanal matzo way back in 1995, for Brett Kelly, my next door neighbor in my rent-stabilized, West Village apartment building. Her parents were...
Khamenei: Global balance of power tilting towards ‘Palestine’ and Muslims
Iran is once again trying to leverage the latest round of escalation in Jerusalem, and present itself as the main power fighting for the Palestinians, in particular, and the Muslim nation, in general. Events...
Rabbanut requires kosher restaurants to rename their lamb and asado bacon to ‘facon’
Crave Gourmet Street Food, a kosher restaurant in Jerusalem’s Machane Yehuda market, told its customers last month that it would be changing the name of its famous lamb bacon to “facon” in accordance with...