Daily Archives: August 25, 2021
Pandemic Postcard Messages, 1918-1920
A substantial portion of the following story appeared in “Messages by Regular Folk on 1918 Pandemic” online in Postcard History on August 22, 2021. That publication’s editor gave permission to reprint it in the cause “that...
Yiddish Crosswords
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‘The Squad’ keeps inciting Jew-hatred, and their party keeps accepting it
Scapegoating Jews for the problems in a society has always been a central feature of Jew-hatred.
Since well before the German agitator Wilhelm Marr first utilized the phrase “anti-Semitism” in the late 19th century (to make Jew-hatred sound race-based, scientific...
Looking Beyond The News: Afghanistan As Metaphor
“God loves from Whole to Part,” proclaims Alexander Pope, “but human soul must rise from Individual to the Whole.” In the end, any viable system of world politics must acknowledge the determinative connections between...
On first day of US trip, Bennett meets with AIPAC, top Biden administration staff
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett met with Howard Kohr, CEO of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), on Wednesday during his first full day of a brief trip to Washington, D.C.
Bennett arrived in the United...
Israeli defense minister says Iran launched deadly drone strike on oil tanker
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz said on Wednesday that Iran was behind a fatal drone attack last month against an oil tanker.
“Our assessment is that the UAV employed in the Mercer Street attack was launched from Iranian territory and...
As many as 1,000 Palestinians riot near Gaza-Israel border
As many as 1,000 Gazans took part in protests near the Israeli border on Wednesday, four days after an Israeli Border Policeman was critically injured by a Hamas gunman over the weekend. As a result, on...
Upcoming German election prospects as lackluster as German Jewish future
The recent elections in Israel and the United States have been marked by scandals, reversals of fortune and larger-than-life personalities. From accusations of manipulated elections to the graceless fall of cult favorites, their election...
Report: IDF intensifies attack options against Iranian missile, nuclear program
Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi said on Wednesday that Iran’s nuclear progress has led the military to hasten its operational preparations for preparing an attack option against Tehran’s nuclear...
IDF Arabic spokesman urges Gazans not to heed Hamas calls for border riots
Lt. Col. Avichay Adraee, head of the Arab media division of the Israel Defense Forces Spokesperson’s Unit, warned the residents of the Gaza Strip on Wednesday not to heed Hamas’s call to riot along...