Daily Archives: June 27, 2022

After years of touring the world’s leading museums, several exquisite 1,700-year-old Roman mosaics returned to Israel for public display. For more than ten years, the mosaics went on display at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of...

Even tzedakah is going high-tech. There are endless opportunities for charitable giving in the Jewish world. And with the biblical commandment to give maser—one-tenth of one’s income to charity—it means that there are also countless people seeking out...

Sabine Fröhlich grew up a Catholic in Breslau, Germany, but her ancestry was Jewish.  Along with her parents and her older brother Andreas, she was declared to be a Jew according to the Nazis’...

For a while it was the QAnon conspiracy theory that was capturing the attention of the American public, both among the believers and the skeptics.  But now, as with one Corona virus variant replacing...

As Jerry Seinfeld would put it, “And you want to be prime minister again?” While Seinfeld once caught George Costanza sprawled on the floor in his underwear after stumbling in Seinfeld’s living room, last week...

Despite managing to raise $160 million in New York on Thursday, at a pledging conference of the Ad Hoc Committee of the U.N. General Assembly, the head of the United Nations Relief Works Agency for Palestine...

The Biden administration’s pick for ambassador to Brazil was blocked by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee after a party line 11-11 vote on Thursday, with Republicans on the committee uniting to oppose her. Nominated for...

An anti-Israel activist who shared a number of social media posts with anti-Semitic content has campaigned with multiple Democrats over the past year. Mahel Abdel Qader has come under fire for repeatedly promoting anti-Semitic conspiracy...

The North Carolina Democratic Party adopted a series of resolutions critical of Israel at its annual statewide convention on June 18, drawing condemnation from Jewish leaders. The “Resolution in Support of Human Rights in Israel/Palestine,”...

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian was scheduled to visit Turkey on Monday, according to a statement from the Turkish Foreign Ministry. Amir-Abdollahian’s visit comes on the heels of Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid’s visit to...