Daily Archives: December 20, 2022
Menorah from iconic 1931 photograph returns to Germany
A brass menorah from a famous photograph taken during the rise of the Nazis made its way back to Germany for a Hanukkah candle-lighting ceremony in Berlin attended by the country’s president.
“This light is...
Is this the largest LEGO menorah in the world?
A Tel Aviv LEGO store has secured what is believed to be the largest-ever LEGO menorah.
Located in the Dizengoff Center, LEGO Store Tel Aviv in July became the first official LEGO store to open...
Mural honoring Hungarian-American responsible for saving 3,000 Jews debuts in New York City
In New York City, antisemites graffiti the walls with Jew-hatred. This Sunday, though, locals strolling through the SoHo neighborhood saw something else: A mural paying tribute to a man responsible for saving the lives...
The ‘Jew-Free Zones’ at Berkeley story wasn’t ‘misinformation’
When the news spread in the fall that nine student groups at the University of California’s Berkeley School of Law amended their bylaws to ensure that no Zionist or pro-Israel speakers would ever speak...
The State Department wants more antisemites in Jerusalem
Just one week after President Joe Biden announced the creation of a task force to fight antisemitism, his State Department is criticizing Israel for deporting a violent antisemite.
The name of the antisemite is Salah...
Biden: Silence in face of ‘vile and venom’ of antisemitism is complicity
U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday denounced the pervasiveness and destructiveness of antisemitism in America and around the world, at a gathering at the White House marking Hanukkah.
“This year’s Hanukkah arrival—arrives in the midst...
Jerusalem Santa extends Christmas greetings from the Ho, Ho, Holy Land
Jerusalem Santa Issa Kassissieh extended his annual Christmas greetings to Christians worldwide from a hot air balloon flying over of the Old City.
He also released a holiday video from Nazareth, in northern Israel, where...
Secretary at Nazi concentration camp guilty of complicity in over 10,500 killings
The former secretary of the Nazi commander of the Stutthof concentration camp was convicted on Tuesday of complicity in the murders of more than 10,500 people.
Irmgard Furchner, 97, who worked as a typist at...
U.S. challenges Israel at U.N. Security Council while two longtime Israel critics say farewell
A pair of Israel antagonists bid farewell to the United Nations Security Council on Monday, but it was the Jewish state’s closest ally that made headlines.
In the council’s monthly meeting on the Israel-Palestinian file,...
How a Palestinian journalist slanders Israel at the US State Department
A Palestinian journalist routinely bashes Israel during the question and answer period at U.S. State Department briefings, and State Department spokespersons rarely correct the record. By allowing anti-Israel bias to penetrate the briefing room...