Daily Archives: February 3, 2022
‘We will not accept converts under new reform,’ Israel’s Sephardi chief rabbi warns
Israel’s Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef harshly criticized Religious Services Minister Matan Kahana on Tuesday for spearheading conversion and kashrut reforms Yosef claims go against Jewish law.
Speaking at a massive rabbinical gathering, Yosef accused...
At this special-needs summer camp, nobody ever ‘ages out’
Dasha is 30 years old, and has been attending the same summer camp for 13 years.
While many people finish the camp experience at the age when Dasha began hers, Camp Eitan is a unique...
Jewish group urges pulling of book naming Jewish suspect who betrayed Anne Frank
The European Jewish Congress is asking the U.S-based publishing house HarperCollins to pull a book they said contains an “incendiary claim” that a Jewish notary told the Nazis where Anne Frank and her family...
Why haven’t more Israelis heard of Mordechai Ben-Porat?
“On 20 November 1949, I was on my way to Basra. Dressed in Bedouin robes, I crossed the Shatt-El-Arab waterway on a small boat with an outboard motor, accompanied by the smuggler Haj Aziz...
Federal civil-rights officials open investigation into anti-Semitism at Brooklyn College
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has announced that it has opened a formal investigation into a complaint alleging Jewish students at Brooklyn College have been subjected to severe and persistent...
Think tank: Israel’s gift of hundreds of millions of dollars to Palestinians violates law
The Jerusalem-based Kohelet Policy Forum sent a request on Jan. 16 under Israel’s Freedom of Information Act to Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz, asking for information and details on his agreement to transfer hundreds...
US special forces kill ISIS leader in northwest Syria raid
American special forces killed ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi in a counter-terrorism raid in northwest Syria on Thursday, the White House has said.
Confirming the raid, U.S. President Joe Biden said in a statement,...
During historic Bahrain visit, Gantz pledges to pursue ‘operational cooperation’
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz visited the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet on Thursday morning after arriving in Bahrain on a surprise visit the day before. He was accompanied by the commander of the Fifth...
Iraqi Hezbollah Brigades launch campaign to finance Houthi drones
The Iraqi Hezbollah Brigades have raised 1 billion Iraqi dinars ($685,000) as part of a campaign to support Yemen’s Houthi militia, also known as Ansar Allah, according to Iraqi media reports.
The campaign is called...
Former Ambassador David Friedman warned by White House: ‘Don’t be so Jewish’
Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman was warned by a U.S. State Department staffer in 2017 not to be “so Jewish,” Breitbart has revealed.
Friedman reportedly recounts the anti-Semitic episodes in his new book, Sledgehammer: How Breaking With the...