Daily Archives: April 12, 2022
Mimi Reinhard, who typed out Schindler’s list, dies at 107
Mimi Reinhard, a secretary in Oskar Schindler’s office who typed up the list of Jewish men, women and children to be saved from death by Nazi Germany, died in Israel on Friday at the...
Refugee orphan boys from Zhytomyr celebrate bar mitzvah at Western Wall
Just weeks after being forced to flee their homes in the town of Zhytomyr, Ukraine, a group of 13-year-old boys participated in a bar mitzvah celebration at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Monday.
The...
Groups work to enable young Jews to join, host in-person Passover seders
OneTable and Haggadot.com are partnering this year for Passover to enable Jewish young adults to create, host and participate in meaningful in-person seders with peers.
“The traditional message of Passover is about freedom,” says Tirtzah...
A plague of media disinformation
It turns out that The Atlantic magazine did a better job explaining the problem of disinformation than even those planning its recent conference on the subject held at the University of Chicago could have hoped. The...
Fear terrorism, not the Israelis defending against it
At a Tel Aviv café on Monday morning, I overheard a couple talking about the terrorist surge responsible for the fact that the normally packed establishment was as relatively empty as the adjacent Carmel...
Assad works to gradually return to embrace of Arab world
Despite the enormous atrocities it has committed since the outbreak of the 2011 Syrian civil war, the Assad regime is slowly but steadily returning to somewhat of an embrace in sections of the Arab...
What is ‘Plan B’ for Israel or America if Iran nuclear deal goes unsigned?
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz made it clear on Monday that if world powers do not reach an agreement with Iran, Israel will be forced to activate “Plan B” immediately.
Speaking during an online webinar...
Texas synagogue in Colleyville reopens three months after hostage crisis
Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, has reopened nearly three months after an armed assailant took four members hostage at the synagogue, NBC reported.
The Reform synagogue’s services were streaming online from various locations while the building was...
Gantz: Iran close to 90% uranium enrichment
Iran is dangerously close to enriching uranium to 90 percent, or military-grade, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz said on Monday.
Addressing a policy forum hosted by the Washington Institute, Gantz said, “As we know, Iran...
IDF arrests 20 security suspects in overnight Judea and Samaria raids
Israeli security forces arrested 20 terror suspects overnight Tuesday in a series of raids in Judea and Samaria, according to the Israeli military.
One of the suspects was allegedly involved in the attack on Joseph’s...