Daily Archives: October 28, 2021
Documentary Film Traces Life, Works of Yiddish Poet Avrom Sutzkever
Released in 2021, Ver Vet Blaybn? (Who Will Remain?), a documentary that follows one woman’s journey to understand her grandfather, Yiddish poet Avrom Sutzkever, is resonating with audiences and having success on the 2021–2022 film...
Yeshiva University establishes Rabbi Jonathan Sacks Center for Values and Leadership
With the commemoration of the first yahrzeit of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, who served as chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of Great Britain and the Commonwealth, Yeshiva University announced the creation of the Rabbi...
Thousands of young people mark 18th anniversary of Masa Israel Journey
Thousands of young professionals, organizers and supporters recently gathered at Tel Aviv’s Hayarkon Park to celebrate 18 years since the founding of Masa Israel Journey in what was one of Israel’s largest international get-togethers...
Meta – The Facebook company’s new name
Today at Connect 2021, CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduced Meta, which brings together our apps and technologies under one new company brand. Meta’s focus will be to bring the metaverse to life and help people...
Calling critics of Soros anti-Semitic undermines the fight against hate
It’s never a good sign when George Soros’s name is back in the headlines. The Hungarian-born hedge-fund billionaire has become a touchstone of controversy. Both Republicans and Democrats in Virginian are taking his name...
Israeli company sets up vertical farms in retail stores in Russia, Ukraine
Vertical Field, an Israeli agro-technology company that develops vertical farming systems, announced partnerships with major retail chains in Russia (Magnit) and Ukraine (Varus).
As part of the joint venture, Vertical Field—owned by Israeli businessman Mikhael...
Israel, Preemption and Anticipatory Self-Defense
For Israel, core issues surrounding Iran’s still-accelerating nuclear weapons program have been strategic and political, rather than legal. Nonetheless, if Israel should ever decide that it no longer has any reasonable alternative to launching a...
18 Year Old Spanish Fascist Receives German Nazi Scholarship
Paris, 27 October
On 13 February, the Wiesenthal Centre noted the march of Fascist tribute to Franco’s Blue Division, sent to Hitler to fight in Russia. A young woman took the podium on that occasion...
New museum dedicated to falsely accused Capt. Alfred Dreyfus opens in France
French President Emmanuel Macron inaugurated on Tuesday the first permanent museum dedicated to Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish captain in the French army who was wrongly convicted because of anti-Semitism, reported France’s RFI.
The Maison Zola-Musée Dreyfus museum in...
Israel plays center stage in Azerbaijan-Iran tensions
Azerbaijan freed two Iranian truck drivers on Oct. 21 after their arrest last month in a sign of thawing relations after tensions spiked, in part due to charges by Iran that Israel had a...