Daily Archives: April 20, 2022
The Stealth Crisis That No One Talks About
There are basically three main issues or problems that are presently occupying the thinking of most people in the world. Covid, climate change, and, since February, Ukraine. The issue that should be occupying people...
Executed Irgun fighter’s tefillin found after 75 years
Decades after they were lost, the tefillin (phylacteries) of Irgun fighter Dov Gruner, who was hanged by the British in 1947 after being caught during a raid on the Ramat Gan police station, are...
‘Real-time’ testimonials from survivors to highlight new Orlando Holocaust center
The Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida, north of Orlando, will expand, relocate and be renamed as its mission shifts to preserving the testimonials and memories of survivors of the Shoah.
The new...
The Secret of Six
I love the connection of numbers and Torah. In macro terms, Torah is the blueprint of the universe. What is the secret of six? According to the famous Passover song, Who Knows One?, one is God,...
America’s biblical roots
The following is an abridged version of the Distinguished Rennert Lecture, delivered on April 19 by Ambassador David Friedman upon receipt of the Guardian of Zion Award from Bar-Ilan University’s Ingeborg Rennert Center for...
Does it matter whether we call Russia’s war in Ukraine ‘genocide’?
When President Joe Biden used the word genocide to describe Russia’s actions in Ukraine, it raised some eyebrows. But it didn’t generate the same kind of pushback some of his other previous unscripted remarks about that...
US State Department officials visit Middle East hoping to reduce tensions
The U.S. State Department announced on Tuesday that Acting Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs Yael Lempert has flown to the Middle East and is scheduled to stay there through April 26.
According to a...
Israel to send protective gear to emergency-service providers in Ukraine
Israel will send helmets and vests to Ukraine’s rescue and emergency services, the Office of Defense Minister Benny Gantz announced on Wednesday.
During a phone call between Gantz and Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov, the...
Jewish UConn student presses for meeting with university president about anti-Semitic bias
The clock is ticking.
A Jewish student who was the recipient of anti-Zionist slurs and anti-Semitic comments online, and was thrown out of her a cappella group, is hoping that her university president will agree to...
‘Nuclear deal on the table must not be signed,’ urges ex-Israeli national security adviser
The current draft of the Iran nuclear deal should “not be signed under any circumstances,” a former Israeli national security adviser has warned.
Brig. Gen. (res.) Professor Jacob Nagel, who served as acting national security...