Monthly Archives: June 2022
New York Republican gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin targeted with anti-Semitic death threat
U.S. Congressman and Jewish candidate for New York governor Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.) was recently targeted with an anti-Semitic death threat, The New York Post reported.
A swastika was spray-painted on a Zeldin campaign lawn sign in Huntington,...
Pro- and anti-Israel Democrats face off in Illinois congressional primary race
Tonight, Jewish political organizations will be closely watching the Democratic primary race in the newly drawn 6th Congressional District of Illinois as two incumbents with vastly different relationships with the Jewish community face off...
Zelensky challenges Israel over assistance to Ukraine in Hebrew University address
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in a live speech from Kyiv last Thursday, expressing frustration that Israel is not doing more to help Ukraine defend itself against Russian invasion.
The...
Israel said to be considering allowing Iranian oil to reach Syria
Israel is reportedly weighing the option of allowing Iranian oil to reach Syria as part of an unofficial and highly unusual agreement with the United States and Iran, Israeli media reported on Sunday.
The fuel...
Hamas claims health of captive Israeli is ‘deteriorating’
A Hamas spokesman announced on Monday that the health of one of the Israeli civilians held captive by the group in the Gaza Strip has deteriorated, according to Israel’s Channel 12.
Hamas is holding Israeli civilians...
Report: Flights between Israel and Saudi Arabia on the table
Talks are ongoing that would allow Israeli Arabs to fly directly to Saudi Arabia for the annual hajj religious pilgrimage, sources told the Financial Times in a report published Monday.
This is one of several ideas being...
Elaborate Roman mosaics make way back to new Israeli museum
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...
New charity card is upgrading the giving experience in Jewish circles
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...
A German Catholic Girl Learned of Life as a Persecuted Jew
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’...
How And Why The Big Lie Grows In Importance In The U.S.
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...