Monthly Archives: April 2022
Israel to lift indoor mask mandate
Israel’s indoor mask mandate is to be lifted on April 23 at 8 p.m., pending approval by the Knesset Health Committee, Israel’s prime minister and health minister announced in a joint statement on Wednesday.
The...
Father of Tel Aviv shooter demands return of son’s body before he’ll turn himself...
Fathi Hazem, whose son, Ra’ad Hazem, killed three Israelis in a terrorist shooting at a bar in Tel Aviv earlier this month, has said he will not turn himself in unless Israel returns his son’s body....
Emirati airlines pull out of Israel’s Independence Day flyover
United Arab Emirates airlines Etihad and Wizz Air Abu Dhabi announced on Tuesday that they will not be participating in a flyover of civilian aircraft as part of Israel’s Independence Day celebrations on May...
Radical Islamic Movement leader visits Temple Mount amid tensions
Raed Salah, head of the outlawed northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel, stopped in the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem amid the ongoing Arab violence on the Temple Mount.
He arrived with other Israeli...
Emirates summons Israeli ambassador for handling of Arab riots in Jerusalem
The United Arab Emirates summoned Israeli Ambassador to the UAE Amir Hayek on Tuesday to criticize security forces in Jerusalem for upholding order amid Arab rioting on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
UAE Minister of...
Holocaust survivor, 91, perishes in store basement in Mariupol
As she lay dying in a Mariupol basement, freezing and pleading for water, Holocaust survivor Vanda Semyonovna Obiedkova wanted to know only one thing: “Why is this happening?”
Ill and emaciated during the last two...
Ben Foster fights for his life in ‘The Survivor’
First, Harry Haft fought to save his life.
Then, he boxed to find the woman he wanted to be his wife.
Born Jewish in Poland, Haft was sent to Auschwitz after the Nazi Germans invade in...
Couple plans to build first Holocaust museum in Boston
Jewish philanthropists Jody Kipnis and Todd Ruderman of Massachusetts bought a 15,000-square-foot building in Boston to create a Holocaust museum.
“Look what’s going on in Europe again,” she said, referring to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine...
Fragmentation, Aggression, Genocide: Deeper Meanings of Russia’s War Against Ukraine
“But tell me, my brothers, if humanity still lacks a goal, is humanity itself not still lacking? Thus inquired Zarathustra.”-Friedrich Nietzsche, Zarathustra
It’s hard to imagine anything decent emerging from Vladimir Putin’s genocidal aggression against Ukraine, but...
Obfuscating the particularity of Passover
In an op-ed in The Jerusalem Post on Friday, Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Nachman Shai described visiting the Poland-Ukraine border, where he witnessed a “never-ending stream of refugees fleeing the savage war that has torn apart their lives.”
The aim of...