Daily Archives: January 26, 2022
German anti-Semitism czar with ‘anti-Zionist’ proclivities accused of splintering Jewish community
At the end of 2021, the Simon Wiesenthal Center came out with its annual “Global Anti-Semitism “Top 10” list. Germany was listed at No. 7, behind Hamas and Iran, for failing to curb anti-Semitism. It singled...
Congress members call for defunding of UN Commission of Inquiry into Israel
A bipartisan group of legislators in the House of Representatives is calling for the United States to defund the U.N. Committee of Inquiry (COI) on Israel.
Led by Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) and Vicky Hartzler...
Akko information center reopens after sustaining major damage in Arab riots
Nearly a year after Jewish National Fund-USA’s (JNF-USA) Tourist Information Center in Akko was severely damaged last May during Arab riots in the city, the center has reopened with plans to welcome back tourists. After significant...
American Jewish University receives grants for cultural programs, including ‘mikvah’
American Jewish University (AJU) in Los Angeles announced that it has been awarded a total of $185,000 in grant funds from the Covenant Foundation, CANVAS and the National Center to Encourage Judaism.
The funding will...
‘Anti-Semitism is toxic to democracies’: B’nai B’rith Holocaust event draws world leaders to hear...
The annual International Holocaust Remembrance Day is set for Thursday—a day the world acknowledges the massive attempt by Nazi Germany to exterminate European Jewry in the middle of the 20th century. But, as the...
International Law in the “State of Nature”: A Contradiction in Terms
“Where there is no Common Power, there is no Law….”
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, Chapter XIII
The “State of Nature” as “State of War”
From its modern beginnings in the seventeenth century – more precisely, since the Peace of Westphalia in...