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A menorah belonging to the great-grandfather of Daniel Pearl is lit by Judea and Ruth Pearl, his parents, at a Hanukkah celebration on Dec. 10, 2007, in the Grand Foyer of the White House in Washington, D.C. Credit: White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian.

Ruth Pearl, mother of slain Jewish journalist Daniel Pearl, dies at 85

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Ruth Pearl, the mother of slain Wall Street Journal journalist Daniel Pearl, died on July 20 at the age of 85. In 2002, Ruth Pearl and her husband, Judea Pearl, were thrust into international attention after Al-Qaeda...
The suitcase Hannah Senesh used to move from Hungary to what was then British Mandatory Palestine. Credit: The National Library of Israel.

National Library of Israel digitizes personal effects, poetry of Hannah Senesh

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In celebrating 100 years since the birth of Jewish war hero and poet Hannah Senesh (Szenes), the National Library of Israel has digitized dozens of items from her recently acquired archive, many of them never previously...
Soraya Nazarian (center) and her daughter, Dr. Sharon Nazarian (right), and WIZO president Esther Mor (center left) and WIZO chairperson Anita Friedman (left) at a ceremony dedicating the new day-care center in Tel Aviv. Credit: Courtesy.

WIZO dedicates new day-care center in Tel Aviv to Los Angeles philanthropists

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The Women’s International Zionist Organization (WIZO) opened a new day-care center in Tel Aviv sponsored by the Los Angeles-based Younes and Soraya Nazarian Family Foundation. Named the Younes and Soraya Nazarian Day Care and Early...
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid speaks during a Yesh Atid Party meeting at the Knesset on July 26, 2021. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Will Lapid’s charm offensive work better than Netanyahu’s realpolitik?

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Like all new governments determined to show that it is an improvement over its predecessor, the unlikely coalition cobbled together by Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid—though formally led by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett—is determined...

Human Rights Watch’s new report is a dud

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Human Rights Watch has just published a new report supposedly examining Israel’s conduct during its 11-day war with Hamas in May, and it comes as little surprise that their conclusion is that Israel committed war crimes. Little...
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi visits Tapuah Junction, south of Nablus, on May 3, 2021. Photo by Sraya Diamant/Flash90

Deceptive nature of current quiet in the West Bank

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A recent mass arrest of Hamas members in the West Bank offers a glimpse into the deceptive nature of the ongoing quiet in the area and how hard the terror organization based in the...
A view of the Shaloh House in Boston. Source: Screenshot/Google Maps.

‘Hate can’t stop us’: Boston’s Shaloh House fights back after anti-Semitic attack

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No one ever expected a pile of Gan Israel camp T-shirts to be used to stop the bleeding of one of the campers’ teachers—certainly not Rabbi Shlomo Noginski himself. But on July 1, that was...
The Barkan Industrial Park in Samaria, which employs Israeli and Palestinian workers Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

IDF increases number of Palestinians eligible to work inside Israel

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The Coordinator for Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), Maj. Gen. Ghassan Alian, informed Palestinian Authority senior officials of a rise in the number of Palestinians eligible to work in Israel, the Israel Defense...
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) building in the southern Gaza Strip, on July 26, 2018. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

Republican lawmakers introduce bill to block US foreign aid to UNRWA

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Republicans in Congress are responding to the resumption of U.S. foreign aid to the United Nations Relief and Work Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) by the Biden administration earlier this year by introducing a...
An IsraAid response team assists in relief efforts for flood-stricken German communities. Credit: IsraAID/Magnus Terhorst.

Israeli aid NGO dispatches team to flood-afflicted western Germany

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Following the floods that recently devastated communities in Western Germany, the Israeli NGO IsraAID sent out a response team to help with relief distribution, clean-up efforts and psychological first aid. The floods, which hit Germany...