Daily Archives: August 16, 2021
Canadian Jewish group renews campaign to remove World War II-era monuments
The Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center in Canada is renewing a call for the removal of two longstanding memorials in the Edmonton area that many say honor Nazi collaborators. The request comes after the...
JDC provides critically needed medical supplies to Haiti following earthquake
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) is responding to the Aug. 14 earthquake that struck southwestern Haiti by providing critically needed medical supplies—surgical instruments, fluids, IV starters, sutures, gloves, masks, face shields and...
Israeli education minister’s Arab affairs adviser shot dead in car
Israeli Education Minister Yifat Shasha-Biton’s Arab affairs adviser was gunned down in his car on Sunday outside his home in the Galilee village of Rameh.
Sahar Ismail, 50, a member of the Druze community, also...
Lapid decries passage of Poland’s ‘anti-Semitic’ restitution law, recalls charge d’affaires from Warsaw
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid on Saturday night accused Poland of having “become an anti-democratic, non-liberal country that does not honor the greatest tragedy in human history.”
Lapid was responding to Polish President Andrzej Duda’s...
Palestinians erect flaming swastika, Star of David near Evyatar outpost
Palestinians erected a burning swastika and Star of David on Saturday night during riots in the village of Beita in Samaria, near the evacuated outpost of Evyatar.
The riots, which have included burning tires and...
The Need To Set Social Fires Through Fast Fashion
There was a time in human history, when most people had just one set of clothes. Unlike much of the clothing today, it was made to last a long time. Only when the factory...