Monthly Archives: August 2022
Iran denies responsibility for Rushdie knifing, Blinken decries continued incitement of violence
Iranian government officials denied that they were responsible for the brutal stabbing of internationally acclaimed novelist Salman Rushdie on Monday, instead laying the blame on him.
“Regarding the attack against Salman Rushdie in America, we don’t consider...
Modern Gossip Hurts The Perpetrator As Well As The Victim
Gossip has existed among humans, ever since there were three or more speaking humans in a community on the face of the earth. With three humans, two of them can always pull aside so...
Reminder – this Sunday! Join us for a Zoom conversation with Shane Baker
We will talk about Yiddish theater, what it means to be a Yiddish actor through his eyes, and his acting through the years. We will also talk about his role as the director of...
Di avantures fun Sherlock Holmes
You might have read Sir Arthur’s books, watch the tv programs and the movies made from his stories but, if you have never read it in Yiddish -and in such clean good Yiddish- you...
Donald Harrison returns with new adventures and discoveries about San Diego and the community.
In his new book, Schlepping and Schmoozing, (volume 1 of two) Harrison takes us by the hand, along the 5 freeway from the US-Mexico border to Old Town, discovering in each exit a trace,...
Step back into biblical times at the Magdala Center
Eco-tourism, yes. Spiri-tourism? Yes to that too.
This is the idea behind the Magdala Center on the shore of the Sea of Galilee. It’s a place where tourists can stay in the brand-new Magdala Hotel, swim in the...
Women before mothers
A spectre is haunting the world. It is the spectre of demographic regression. The ideological organs of patriarchy are sounding the alarm: "More and more women on all continents are rebelling and not having...
The Holocaust and Lithuania’s family secret
Silvia Foti grew up hearing praises of her grandfather. Jonas Noreika—known affectionately as “General Storm”—is still hailed in Lithuania as a war hero and anti-Soviet partisan who fought for Lithuania’s independence at the height...
Israel Prize laureate welcomes granddaughter same weekend IDF kills terrorist behind son’s death
Israel Prize-winning educator Miriam Peretz welcomed the birth of a granddaughter just a day before the Israel Defense Forces killed the terrorist who was behind the operation that killed one of her children.
“Out of destruction, a new life...
Saudi social-media influencer: ‘Hope our nation will sign a peace treaty with Israel’
Saudi social-media influencer Mohammed Saud, who recently made both waves and friends by playing Israel’s national anthem “Hatikvah” on the oud, tells JNS that “Saudi Arabian citizens are starting to learn much more about the Jewish...