Daily Archives: March 30, 2022
‘The Blessing of a Broken Heart’ comes home: Sherri Mandell’s 2003 classic is brought...
“There is nothing as whole as a broken heart.” — Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Kotsk
Some types of pain never end. Sure, the sharp stab in the heart fades as life in all its complexity roars...
Factual Errors Detract from Jewish Family Saga
This is a novel that traces a Jewish family through several generations from a shtetl in Poland to the big city of Warsaw, and later onward to Scotland, Germany, and England over the course...
Andy Levin and why you can’t support both Israel and its enemies
Rep. Andy Levin (D-Mich.) makes a point of saying that he is “proudly Jewish.” He can back up that assertion by, among other things, citing the fact that he’s been the president of a...
Jewish teens sue two airlines for discrimination after being banned from flights
A group of Orthodox Jewish girls from New York has filed a complaint against Delta Air Lines and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines for the discrimination they say they faced on flights last summer, reported Insider.
The...
Efrat high school makes pointed stop to visit family of murdered Druze officer
A group of students from the Derech Avot High School of Ohr Torah Stone educational network in Efrat decided to deviate from their previously scheduled itinerary on a yearly outing to make a condolence...
University of California system considers mandatory ethnic-studies requirement
The University of California higher-education system is considering adding a new admission requirement that will force high school students in the state to learn a controversial and anti-Semitic ethnic-studies curriculum if they want to...
Ahead of Passover, Homeland Security steps up effort to protect Jewish facilities and congregants
Colleyville. Pittsburgh. Poway.
Too many Jewish institutions are wondering if they’ll be next. Too many in Brooklyn, N.Y., and elsewhere already deal with the reality of anti-Semitic attacks that keep on coming.
The federal government says...
Israeli President Herzog and Jordan’s King Abdullah meet in Amman
Israeli President Isaac Herzog arrived in Jordan on Wednesday for an official visit at the invitation of King Abdullah II. He was received by the Jordanian leader at an official ceremony at the royal...
Arab press blasts reported US plan to remove IRGC from terror list
In response to reports that the Biden administration is considering removing Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) from the list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations as part of its efforts to renew the 2015 nuclear...
Lipstadt nomination moves to full vote in Senate
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday advanced the nomination of Deborah Lipstadt to serve as the U.S. State Department’s Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism.
Lipstadt, 75, a top Holocaust historian and the...