Daily Archives: February 15, 2022
Thoughts On A Central Notion Of Being Happy
In my last article, I discussed many different sub-meanings of happy as manifested in different synonyms. But yesterday, in a meeting of the Chicago Ethical Humanist Circle, people were grappling with what was, in...
Morris Casuto, 79, Defender of the Jewish People
Morris Casuto, the Anti-Defamation League regional director who defended San Diego County’s Jewish community against antisemites while forging good relations with other ethnic and religious groups within the county, died from leukemia Friday night,...
Fellowship sends $1 million in aid to Ukrainian Jewry
The International Friendship of Christians and Jews has announced a $1 million emergency aid package for the Jewish community of Ukraine, it said in a press release.
The assistance, which comes on top of its...
Novelists Paint Complex Portrait of Hitler
Here is a mixture of history, biography, and pure fiction depicting the political maneuvering of Adolf Hitler and the people closest to him between 1934 and 1938, the tumultuous years preceding World War II.
The...
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: an Ironic Compendium
With a simple reasoning we could explain the theory that sustains the great book The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, hoisted by Edward Gibbon. That reasoning is: a society unavoidably subjected to material...
Why we should care about the fate of Ukraine
It’s difficult to know where exactly the crisis over a potential Russian invasion of Ukraine will end. Yet no matter whether Russian President Vladimir Putin seizes more of the former Soviet satellite nation, conquers...
Bahraini crown prince to Bennett: ‘We will do great things together’
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Bahraini Crown Prince and Prime Minister Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa met on Tuesday at the prince’s palace in Manama and exchanged welcoming remarks before the media.
This is...
Israel sends delegation to Vienna as Iran nuclear talks enter final stretch
Israel has sent a delegation to Vienna to meet with American and other officials from countries engaged in discussions on rejoining a nuclear deal with Iran.
Joshua Zarka, head of the strategic department of Israel’s...
Top Turkish delegation to visit Israel
A delegation of top Turkish leaders will arrive in Israel this week, ahead of a planned visit by President Isaac Herzog to the country, the president’s office said.
The delegation, whose trip is for the...
Israel’s premier meets with Bahraini Jewish community
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett met with the Jewish community of Bahrain on Tuesday, and gave them a shofar from Israel for their synagogue.
“I’m very delighted to be here in Bahrain, and I could...