Daily Archives: June 24, 2021
10 years after release from Hamas captivity, Gilad Schalit gets married
Gilad Schalit, a former Israel Defense Forces soldier who spent five years as a prisoner of Hamas, and Nitzan Shabbat were married on Wednesday in a private ceremony in central Israel. The two got...
More than 300 attend NCSY’s Gala celebrating champions for Jewish teens
At its recent Gala, NCSY, the flagship youth movement of the Orthodox Union (OU), feted communal leaders who have invested in programs that have fostered Jewish continuity and identity. More than 300 supporters attended...
Prominent political fundraiser endows DC-area Chabad center in her father’s memory
About 50 friends and family members of political fundraiser Lisa Spies joined on Sunday, Father’s Day, for a private brunch to dedicate donations that she and her husband, attorney Charlie Spies, made to the...
Why is young evangelical support for Israel eroding?
Over the past few decades, evangelical Christians have emerged as one of Israel’s core bases of support both in the United States and many other countries as well. However, growing trends of secularization and...
Risks of a Nuclear War With North Korea: The Obligation of Intellect-Based Remedies
“Is it an end that draws near, or a beginning?”-Karl Jaspers, Man in the Modern Age (1951)
Intellect and National Security
In the end, nothing could be gained by approaching the North Korean nuclear threat with Trump-era seat-of-the-pants...
Condo across from Miami synagogue collapses, search and rescue underway
One person has been pronounced dead after a 12-story condominium in Surfside, Fla., in a predominately Jewish area near a large synagogue, partially collapsed at 1:30 a.m. on Thursday morning. As many as 50...
Pedestrian yells anti-Semitic threats at Jewish father, kids at camp bus stop
A Jewish man was verbally attacked with anti-Semitic language on Monday as he dropped off his children at a bus stop to go to their Jewish camp in the Woodland Hills neighborhood of California.
Jessica...
Canada’s leading labor union secretly passes resolution to boycott Israel
Canada’s largest labor union adopted “behind closed doors” a motion last week that supports a boycott of Israel after the resolution initially failed to garner support among members.
The Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) held its...
Belgian government decides to remove army protection from Jewish sites
The head of the European Jewish Association (EJA) said on Wednesday that the Belgian government’s decision to remove army protection at Jewish institutions makes “zero sense” and leaves Jews “wide open with a target on...
US law professor elected to UN committee criticized for stances on anti-Semitism, Israel
Gay McDougall, who was elected to serve on the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) on Thursday, has elicited concern over her record on anti-Israel bias and anti-Semitism.
McDougall, 73, a distinguished...