Daily Archives: November 21, 2022
Famous Jewish couple who perished aboard the Titanic featured in New York exhibit
“Where you go, I go,” Ida Straus told her husband, Isidor, aboard the RMS Titanic in April 1912. With lifeboats available for women and children first, men had to wait. Given a chance for a seat...
Despite boycott call, chess teams in Israel for world championship
In a blow to the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement, all 11 foreign national teams will compete for the World Team Championship alongside Israel in Jerusalem beginning on Sunday.
The World Chess Federation (FIDA) did...
Robert Clary, ‘Hogan’s Heroes’ star and Holocaust survivor, dies at 96
Robert Clary, a Holocaust survivor best known as the French actor who starred in the CBS-TV series “Hogan’s Heroes,” died at his home in Los Angeles on Nov. 15 at age 96.
Family members did not provide...
Tom Friedman: Mistaken or disingenuous?
On Nov. 4, The New York Times’ Tom Friedman, who reflects the worldview of the State Department establishment, lamented that “the Israel we knew is gone.”
Should one rely on Friedman’s assessments concerning the Middle East?
In...
Reason And Anti-Reason In Moscow: Psychiatric Determinants Of “Cold War II”
Vladimir Putin’s aggression against Ukraine has obviously critical implications for United States foreign policy. Among other things, this expanding Russian “crime against peace” has undermined once residual hopes for superpower reconciliation or “détente.” In essence, whatever...
Jew accused of threatening NYC synagogue is grandson of a Holocaust survivor
One of the two men accused of planning to attack an unspecified synagogue in New York City is Jewish and the grandson of a Holocaust survivor, his counsel said in court on Saturday.
Matthew Mahrer,...
Israel’s chief rabbi proposes amending the Law of Return
The Knesset should amend the Law of Return to curb non-Jewish immigration to Israel, Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel Rabbi David Lau of Israel urged.
Lau, speaking at the annual International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries...
WJRO welcomes Lithuania’s move to partially compensate Holocaust victims
The World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO) on Sunday welcomed Lithuanian legislation addressing Holocaust survivors’ restitution claims, the organization announced in a statement.
The new legislation, introduced by Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė, would provide over...
Netanyahus win defamation suit against ex-Israeli premier Olmert
A Tel Aviv court ruled on Monday that former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert defamed Benjamin Netanyahu and his family, according to local media.
Olmert was ordered to pay to Netanyahu, his wife Sara and...
‘There is no problem with having a halachic state’
The return of the right to power in the recent Israeli elections is “a badge of honor for the sector and proves that this is what the public wants,” according to Rabbi Haim...