Daily Archives: May 26, 2021
Pendant warding off ‘evil eye’ may shed light on Jewish life in Talmudic period
An ancient pendant that was just handed over to Israel’s National Treasures Center by a family member of the woman who found it 40 years ago near the ruins of an ancient synagogue on...
Announcing the ASF’s 2021 Broome & Allen Fellowship & Scholarship Recipients
The American Sephardi Federation congratulates the 24 Broome & Allen Fellowship & Scholarship Recipients for 2021! Dedicated to recognizing impressive academic accomplishments and service on behalf of the Greater Sephardic community, the ASF’s Broome & Allen Endowment also...
Music Rises Like A Phoenix
Telling the story of someone’s life without turning it into a thick biography is the art of the raconteur. The art is to seize upon a single, defining moment and work from there. Maestro...
Rabbis for Hamas
The recent fighting between Israel and Hamas once again forced American Jews to pick sides: Israel versus their universal ideals, which they see as incompatible with the Zionist enterprise. A case in point: a...
University of Toronto Jewish students claim anti-Semitic harassment, intimidation
Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies is calling on University of Toronto president Meric Gertler to launch a “thorough, third-party investigation” into reports by Jewish students in the university’s medical school that...
Muslim countries call for UN probe into possible human-rights violations during Israel-Gaza conflict
Muslim countries submitted a draft resolution to the United Nations on Tuesday, calling for the establishment of an international commission of inquiry to investigate potential human-rights violations during the recent fighting between Israel and...
450-plus entities adopted IHRA definition of anti-Semitism in past five years
A new study from the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry at Tel Aviv University has revealed that more than 450 leading organizations, including 28 countries, have adopted and/or endorsed the International Holocaust...
Chief rabbi calls out South Africa’s president over Israel ‘apartheid’ allegations
South Africa’s Sunday Times published an open letter by Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein to South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, who compared Israel to South Africa under apartheid.
Goldstein challenged the president’s claim, saying “the truth is that...
Simon Cowell drops planned appearance as judge on ‘X Factor Israel’
British media mogul and veteran music producer Simon Cowell has canceled his planned appearance as a judge on the new season of “The X Factor Israel,” it was reported on Monday.
“Simon won’t be going to...
UNRWA Gaza director backtracks on interview about Israeli war actions
Gaza director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) Matthias Schmale accused NGO UN Watch and the press on Wednesday of “blatantly manipulating” comments he made in an interview with Israel’s Channel 12 two days earlier.
In the interview,...