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Daily Archives: January 10, 2022

Pinkas (“Communal Record Book”) of the Hevra Lomde Shas (Learners of the Talmud Society) in Lazdijai, a town in southwestern Lithuania, 1836. Courtesy of Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York. Photo: Getty Images/Thos Robinson.

‘A lost Jewish history reclaimed’: New digital archive reveals pre-Holocaust world

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A lost Jewish history has been reclaimed and is set to be unveiled on Monday. For the first time, more than 4.1 million pages of original books, artifacts, records, manuscripts and documents—cultural survivors of...
A miniature 10th-century Koran. Credit: Courtesy of the National Library of Israel, Jerusalem.

Doubled in 2021: Online visits to National Library of Israel in Arabic top 2...

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The National Library of Israel (NLI) said 2021 saw a significant increase in Arab users of its website and online resources across the Arab world, within Israel and globally. Compared to the previous year, 2021...
Deborah Lipstadt. Credit: Courtesy.

Politics and combating anti-Semitism don’t mix

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At a time when anti-Semitism is on the rise around the globe, the office of the U.S. State Department’s Special Envoy for Combating and Monitoring Anti-Semitism ought to be filled. Indeed, the Biden administration...
seysd shahaboddin vajedi, CC BY 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Iran’s ayatollahs threaten the US in Latin America

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Driven by a genuine desire to rid the Middle East and the globe of terrorism and war—and reflecting a long track record and ingrained worldview—Secretary of State Antony Blinken, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan,...

Obsessed with Israeli settlements, Americans and Europeans turn blind eye to Palestinian violence

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The United States and some European nations continue to demonstrate an obsession with Israeli “settlements” and isolated incidents by small groups of radical right-wing Israelis, mostly wayward youths, while completely ignoring the much larger...
Israeli Foreign Minister and head of the Yesh Atid Party Yair Lapid speaks during a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on Dec. 13, 2021. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Legal experts: Opponents of Israel to push for ‘apartheid’ designation in 2022

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Last week, Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid warned that Israel will face increasing allegations that it is an apartheid state in 2022, with the foreign minister saying that he fears that opponents of Israel will attempt...
Capitol Hill. Credit: rarrarorro/Shutterstock.

Israeli lawmakers herald launch of Abraham Accords Caucus in Congress

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Israeli lawmakers welcomed the launch of the Abraham Accords Caucus this week in Congress. The new caucus on Capitol Hill in Washington will be launched as a bipartisan initiative by Democrats and Republicans in both...
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. Credit: Carrington Tatum/Shutterstock.

Texas governor names five appointees to new Holocaust, genocide and anti-Semitism commission

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has appointed five people to the state’s new Holocaust, Genocide and Anti-Semitism Advisory Commission. The commission, which was created in September, “shall conduct a study on anti-Semitism in the state, provide...
The Tehran funeral of Maj. Gen. Qassem Suleimani, Iranian head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force, who was assassinated by an American drone strike, Jan 7, 2020. Credit: Saeediex/Shutterstock.

Soleimani’s death was a blow to Iran, but far from a fatal one

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Two months ago, on Nov. 7, 2021, one of the Shi’ite militias in Iraq deployed a suicide drone against the home of Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi. The drone exploded, wounding a few security...

Remembering Bob Saget, Millennials’ embarrassing, bawdy, beloved Jewish dad

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Children of the ‘90s discovered Bob Saget in phases – he was one of the rare comedy acts that aged with you, while never quite maturing. The comedian, who was found dead in a Florida...