Daily Archives: November 11, 2021
Murderer of Holocaust survivor Mireille Knoll sentenced to life
A French court on Wednesday sentenced Yacine Mihoub to life in prison, with no possibility of parole for 22 years, for the 2018 murder of Holocaust survivor Mireille Knoll. A second man, Alexander Carrimbacus,...
Australian wins ORT Teacher of the Year Award
A ‘sparkly, positive’ teacher at Singapore’s leading Jewish school has collected a global award for her dedication and commitment to her students and colleagues during the past year.
Maire Clapham, a primary teacher at the...
Jeff Seidel’s Chanukah campaign to distribute menorahs across Israel to university and gap year...
Chanukah is right around the corner. Jeff Seidel’s Chanukah menorah distribution campaign is back once again distributing nearly 1000 menorah packets to the overseas students throughout Israel. Some students have received menorahs or are...
Did Bennett’s J Street meeting help Israel’s efforts to hold onto Democratic support?
In its 15 years of existence, the left-wing lobby J Street has won many public-relations victories and almost none when it came to policy. Its impact in Washington has, for the most part, been...
Academic departments need to steer clear of activism against Israel
The obsessive loathing of Israel by large swathes of academia was evident this past spring as Hamas showered Israeli population centers with more than 4,000 rockets and mortars. Instead of denouncing genocidal aggression on...
A healthy scoop: Sheba medical dieticians turn supplements into sweets
Dieticians at Sheba Medical Center in Israel have sweetened the offerings for some of their older patients who require food supplements.
At the height of the coronavirus pandemic, when no visitors were allowed in the...
Pompeo: Israel has ‘duty’ to defend itself from Iran absent US support
Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo believes that Israel has the “duty” to defend itself from Iran if Tehran takes actions that threaten Israel absent U.S. support.
“If the United States is not with...
1,500-plus rabbis rebuke US for abstention vote on UN resolution targeting Israel
The largest rabbinic public-policy organization in the United States called the Biden administration’s decision to abstain from a U.N. General Assembly draft resolution that targeted Israel “quite disappointing.”
The text, called “Assistance to Palestinian Refugees,” demands “compensation”...
Reports name previously unknown senior Quds Force officer ejected by Assad
Recent reports have named a previously unknown senior officer working in Syria on behalf of the Iranian Quds Force, Israel’s Kan news reported on Thursday.
The report, citing an Arabic report by the United States-based Alhura Arabic-language media report,...
Israel holds national drill to prepare for lethal ‘Omega’ COVID-19 variant
Israel began a national drill on Thursday to test the country’s preparedness for the outbreak of a new, more lethal variant of the COVID-19 virus.
The exercise, which is being conducted from a situation room...