Daily Archives: September 24, 2021
National Library of Israel releases rare photographs of Sukkot during 1973 war
Nearly 50 years after the Yom Kippur War, the National Library of Israel has released a number of rare photos showing how the festival of Sukkot, or “Feast of Tabernacles,” was celebrated during the conflict, even...
World War II letter connects families of Jewish survivors, Polish farmer who hid them
The descendants of two Holocaust survivors and the farmer who hid them from the Nazis in Poland have connected with the help of a recently discovered post-World War II letter.
Karolina Jurzyk, 35, said that...
The baleful significance of the Democrats’ Iron Dome fiasco
According to House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, when the Democrats withdrew from their embattled spending bill $1 billion in emergency funding for Israel’s Iron Dome defense system, this was merely a “technicality” that would...
On visible and invisible Jews
During the middle days of the Sukkot festival, small groups of haredi kids can be seen wandering along the thoroughfares of New York City’s Upper West Side, asking passersby whether they are Jewish. If the answer...
At UN, Abbas demands Israel withdraw to pre-1967 borders or face consequences
In his address to the U.N. General Assembly on Friday, Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas demanded that Israel return to its pre-1967 borders or face consequences.
“If the Israeli occupation authorities continue to entrench the...
Jewish groups urge public funding for private schools ahead of Supreme Court case
Several Jewish groups have filed friend-of-the-court briefs in support of a case that could determine whether public funding could be given to parochial schools for secular education.
In Carson V. Makin, parents of parochial-school students argued...
Texas adds Ben & Jerry’s, Unilever to list of companies boycotting Israel
The ice-cream company Ben & Jerry’s and its British parent company Unilever have officially been added to the list of companies in Texas that boycott Israel, announced Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar on Thursday.
Under Chapter 808, Texas law...
Park in Florence, Italy, named after Jewish resistance fighters during Holocaust
A park in Florence, Italy, has been named after a Jewish couple who joined the Nazi resistance during World War II and became prominent members of the local community, The Jerusalem Post reported.
The park, close to...
Leveraging diverse background, Fleur Hassan-Nahoum seeks to bring unity, cohesion to agency
Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem Fleur Hassan-Nahoum is one of the candidates to head the Jewish Agency, the largest Jewish nonprofit organization in the world. If elected, she would become the first woman to head...
Netflix gains entire catalogue of works by ‘certainly anti-Israeli’ Roald Dahl
Netflix has acquired the Roald Dahl Story Company (RDSC), giving it rights to all the works by the late British children’s author, who was openly anti-Israel and had a history of making anti-Semitic remarks.
Dahl’s...