Daily Archives: March 9, 2022
550 Bnei Menashe from India visit Western Wall with Israel’s chief rabbi
Some 550 new immigrants from the Bnei Menashe community who recently immigrated to Israel and now live in the Galilee visited the Western Wall on Wednesday for the first time, together with the Ashkenazi...
Kosher soup kitchen joins with DoorDash in New York to help feed families
A Jewish-run and kosher-certified soup kitchen and food pantry operating in New York City has partnered with the food-delivery service DoorDash to provide meals and groceries to families in need in the boroughs of...
Democrats don’t want to save bipartisan support for Israel
Should Jews welcome the support of both Democrats and Republicans for the cause of Israel? That used to be a bedrock principle of American Jewry. But that isn’t true anymore for many on the...
Omnibus spending bill includes millions to protect synagogues, Iron Dome, Holocaust survivors
The Omnibus spending bill that is currently being considered by the U.S. House of Representatives includes several key funding provisions that will help protect synagogues, fund the Iron Dome air-defense system and aid aging...
Lipstadt confirmation vote for US anti-Semitism envoy stalled by senator’s objection
The confirmation vote for Deborah Lipstadt to serve as the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism was delayed on Tuesday after Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) objected to her nomination.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee,...
Israeli-Palestinian heated narrative shifts from American colleges to public schools
The educational battleground in the Israeli-Palestinian narrative is shifting yet again. Just as pro-Israel forces had anchored themselves at North American college campuses to counteract a hotbed of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish activity that has...
Former largest yeshivah in world becomes refugee camp in Poland for Ukrainian Jews
A yeshivah in Poland that was once the largest in the world has been converted into a refugee camp for Ukrainian Jews fleeing their home county as Russia’s war continues.
Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva operated in...
‘Economic warfare is the ultimate weapon’
The negotiations in Vienna aiming to revive the Iranian nuclear deal have taken Udi Levy back in time to 2015, the year world powers signed the original agreement with Tehran—eliminating “Project Cassandra,” the pinnacle...
IDF demolishes homes of terrorists behind murder of Yehuda Dimentman
The Israeli military on Tuesday demolished the homes of two of the Palestinians behind the terrorist attack in December that claimed the life of Israeli yeshivah student Yehuda Dimentman.
Both structures were located in the...
Head of Cypriot military makes first visit to Israel
The head of Cyprus’s military touched down in Israel on Monday, kicking off his first official visit to the country, the Israel Defense Forces announced on Tuesday.
Lt. Gen. Demokritos Zervakis was received by an...