Daily Archives: August 2, 2022
How those suffering from cancer become ‘me’ at Camp Simcha
Sixteen-year-old Tevel Argental, from the northern Israeli town of Yokneam, has been battling brain cancer since she was two years old. She has undergone multiple surgeries, chemotherapy, radiation and other treatments that have allowed...
Auburn’s ‘Birthright for College Basketball’ initiative tips off in Jerusalem
Auburn University’s men’s basketball head coach Bruce Pearl is in Israel with his team for the inaugural “Birthright for College Basketball” tour from July 31 to Aug. 10. The reigning SEC regular-season champion Tigers will...
A festival of laughs comes to Brooklyn, N.Y.
There are Jewish comedians. And then there is Jewish comedy.
The first-ever Chosen Comedy Festival, set for Aug. 16 in Brooklyn, N.Y., will bring both.
“There’s so much about Jewish comedy that is talked about in...
Israel signs contract to build embassy in Morocco
Israel’s Ambassador to Morocco David Govrin signed a construction contract on Tuesday for building a headquarters for a permanent Israeli embassy in Morocco.
“I am very happy to share with you this photo, which witnesses...
World Unity and “Cosmopolis”: Law-Based Opportunities for Survival
“Civilization is the never-ending process of creating one world and one humanity.”
Lewis Mumford, In the Name of Sanity (1954)
Biological Sameness and Species Unification
The unity and interdependence of humankind is not subject to reasonable challenge. Beginning with our biological sameness,...
Anti-Semitic UN Human Rights Council ‘investigator’ says the quiet part out loud
That a U.N. official would go on the record with anti-Semitic comments ought to be enough to engender outrage and involve consequences for the person involved. But sometimes, a controversy over something terrible that someone said...
German airline to appoint anti-Semitism manager after keeping Jews from flight
Lufthansa Airlines will hire an anti-Semitism manager and adopt the International Human Rights Commission’s (IHRA) working definition of anti-Semitism after an incident that garnered international attention, in which more than 100 identifiably Jewish individuals were barred from a flight on...
US takes action against six entities helping Iran oil industry
The U.S. government on Monday designated and sanctioned six entities as helping with “illicit transactions related to Iranian petroleum” and related products, “key sources of revenue for the Iranian government.”
It is one more wrench...
Is Israel undermining its own law with surreptitious payments to the PA?
The Israeli Security Cabinet’s decision on Sunday to withhold funding from the P.A. equivalent to the amount it disburses to reward terror could prove to be an empty gesture that undermines the law, if...
PA to raise ‘salaries’ of terrorists that bombed Hebrew University
The Palestinian Authority is slated to give a 14% raise to the terrorists responsible for a deadly bombing at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem 20 years ago, in the context of its “pay to...