Monthly Archives: April 2022
Bennett blames Silman resignation on ‘verbal violence’ from opponents
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett blamed the resignation of former Yamina Party Knesset member Idit Silman and her defection to the opposition on “months of verbal violence” from opponents of the current government coalition.
“Idit was hounded...
Israeli immigration minister visits Ukraine to boost ‘aliyah’
Israeli Aliyah and Integration Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata visited the Israeli field hospital in Mostyska on Thursday, together with a delegation of Jewish Agency and Keren Hayesod leaders.
Tamano-Shata and the delegation landed in Poland on Wednesday, where...
Despite spate of violence, Israel to allow Palestinians to visit Temple Mount
Despite a wave of Palestinian Arab violence that has left 11 Israelis dead in recent weeks, Israel plans to allow women and children, as well as men over the age of 40, from the...
Conservative Jewry installs new president as movement plots its path forward
The Orthodox movement is the fasting-growing in American Judaism. The Reform movement is by far the largest. So what does the future hold for Conservative Jewry? Once the largest U.S. Jewish denomination, the movement...
Palestinian Apartheid Week as new approach to facing anti-Israel activity on campus
A pro-Israel student group is going on the offensive by tabling at multiple campuses across the United States, highlighting systemic discrimination against Jews in Palestinian-controlled territories such as the West Bank and Gaza Strip...
Holocaust survivor, subject of Oscar and Emmy-winning film, dies at 97
Holocaust survivor and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Gerda Weissmann Klein died on Sunday at age 97.
Born in 1924 in Poland, she survived three Nazi concentration camps, where she almost died from exhaustion, overwork...
Not your mother’s (or even your grandmother’s) gefilte fish …
With larger numbers of family and friends expected at Passover seders this year as COVID numbers have gone down, hosts seem to be going all out this year with the homemade cooking, especially since...
March of the Living resumes in person with only eight Holocaust survivors
The International March of the Living will resume in person for the first time in two years but with a reduced capacity, due to Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, and only eight Holocaust survivors...
Religion Can Be Fair Game in Judicial Nominations — When Relevant
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, imposed a religious test upon Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson during her Supreme Court hearing, thus violating Article 6 of the Constitution. This begs the question of...
Kicking Russia off the UN Human Rights Council is an empty gesture
After the recent revelations of war crimes committed by Russia in Ukraine, the world is looking for ways to make life harder for President Vladimir Putin’s regime and to express its outrage. So when...