Daily Archives: February 11, 2022
Hungarian-born skier comes in sixth place for Israel with more races to come
Barnabas Szollos achieved Israel’s best-ever individual finish at the 2022 Winter Olympic Games on Thursday when he came in sixth place overall in the men’s alpine combined.
The 23-year-old Hungarian-born skier, who’s representing Israel in...
Belgium museum returns Nazi-looted painting to heirs of its Jewish owners
Belgium’s Royal Museums of Fine Arts has returned a painting to the great-grandchildren of a Jewish couple who owned the artwork before it was stolen by the Nazis, reported Reuters.
Museum workers took down “Flowers,” painted by German...
Montreal Holocaust Museum initiates $80 million project to relocate to Jewish Quarter
The Montreal Holocaust Museum has undertaken an $80 million project to relocate into a new space in the city’s historic Jewish community.
The building on Saint-Laurent Boulevard in Le Plateau-Mont-Royal will feature interactive holograms of Holocaust survivors...
Surfside, Fla., votes to adopt IHRA definition of anti-Semitism
The town of Surfside, Fla., has approved a resolution to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of anti-Semitism.
The Town of Surfside Commission voted unanimously in favor of the resolution on Tuesday night. The...
Latvia’s parliament passes $45 million Holocaust-restitution bill
Latvia’s parliament passed a bill that will provide compensation for unrecovered Jewish property and funding for the country’s Jewish community, reported The Associated Press.
The Law on the Compensation of Goodwill to the Latvian Jewish Community...
Experts debate steps Israel must take to prevent future Arab violence, integration into state
At the end of the Muslim month of Ramadan last May, which coincided with Israel’s Jerusalem Day celebrating Israel’s victory in the Six-Day War in June 1967, intense Arab violence erupted in Jerusalem. This...
University of Vermont students, faculty reported 58 anti-Semitic incidents in 2021
A survey on the number of anti-Semitic incidents that occurred at North American colleges in 2021 revealed that the University of Vermont had the most with 58 reported cases.
The advocacy group Jewish on Campus,...
Israeli airlines to Bennett: Limited flights to Dubai until security dispute resolved
The heads of Israel’s three main airlines—El Al, Israir and Arkia—sent a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Thursday, urging him to take urgent action to resolve a dispute with Dubai airport...
Government ending talks to move ahead with E1 corridor construction east of Jerusalem
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Defense Minister Benny Gantz have reportedly ordered the Civil Administration in Judea and Samaria’s higher planning council to halt discussions on the authorization of construction to connect the city of...
Sa’ar moves ahead to try to decriminalize recreational cannabis in Israel
Israel’s Minister of Justice Gideon Sa’ar proposed new temporary regulations to decriminalize recreational cannabis on Wednesday.
If the new regulation is approved, recreational cannabis use would not be considered a criminal offense but instead be...