Daily Archives: July 15, 2021
‘Labyrinth of Lies’ Examines Germany’s Post-War Response to Holocaust
Directors Giulio Ricciarelli’s 2014 documentary film Labyrinth of Lies, streaming on paid Amazon Prime, brings to the screen the story of the prosecution of death camp crimes in a German court.
Labyrinth of Lies can be viewed...
On Tisha B’Av, mourning incomparable loss, working on increased unity
Why is Tisha B’Av the saddest day of the Jewish year?
Eerily, not only were both of the holy temples in Jerusalem destroyed on the ninth day of the Hebrew month of Av (the first...
‘It’s a moment I will never forget,’ says Washington Nationals draft pick Elie Kligman
Jewish baseball history was made for a second time this week when on Tuesday, 18-year-old Elie Kligman, an Orthodox Jewish teen from Nevada, was drafted by the Washington Nationals.
Kligman, who keeps kosher and will...
Iran’s Brooklyn terror plot is a crucial test for Biden
For those who follow news about Iran, the latest report about a terror plot hatched by the Islamist regime was no surprise. The U.S. State Department has, under both Democratic and Republican presidents, consistently...
Are Israel and Jordan ready to turn over a new leaf?
Jordan’s King Abdullah II has often described his country as being wedged between a “rock and a hard place,” referring to war-torn Iraq and the Israeli-controlled areas west of the Jordan River. And that...
Canadian Jewish leaders raise alarm after string of anti-Semitic assaults in Toronto
A Toronto man with a swastika tattoo on his chest was arrested for assault on a Jewish man and ticketed for other offenses aimed at the Jewish community during the past week.
Michael Park, 32,...
Watchdog to legislators: ‘Ethnic-studies bill threatens safety of Jewish students’
The anti-Semitism watchdog AMCHA Initiative is urging the California Senate Education Committee to vote against a bill that allows high school districts to adopt an anti-Semitic draft of an ethnic-studies curriculum.
“Especially now, as violence...
Months after UN lifted arms embargo on Iran, ‘dam hasn’t burst’ yet
Nine months after the U.N. arms embargo on Iran has expired, there has not been a major new trend of sales of international arms to the Islamic Republic so far.
Yet a potential danger remains...
Knesset rejects bill to strip terrorists of citizenship
A bill to revoke the citizenship and residency of terrorists receiving stipends from the Palestinian Authority failed to pass a preliminary reading in the Knesset on Wednesday.
The bill, which was introduced by Religious Zionist...
Israel is $70 million closer to its second lunar mission
From the moment Israel’s “Beresheet” unmanned lunar crashed on the Moon in April 2019, project leaders and backers pledged to try again.
Now the “Beresheet 2” mission is getting closer to reality, as SpaceIL has raised $70 million from entrepreneurs and...