Daily Archives: February 22, 2023
Holocaust museums and memorials have work cut out for them attracting non-Jews
In a study published in the Journal of Travel Research last year, scholars from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign found that a visit to the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, which they dubbed “dark tourism,” made...
Gene Simmons of Kiss fame to unveil mural of Polish Catholic Holocaust hero
Artists 4 Israel is expanding its series of murals honoring Righteous Among the Nations. It’s doing so with a “kiss” this time.
The collective, which enlists artists to combat antisemitism and anti-Israel bigotry through their work,...
Two Mysteries for Price of One in ‘Trouble’
Hella Mauzer is a fictional former policewoman in Helsinki, who now works as a private investigator. She is asked in 1953 by her old colleague to do a background check on a man who...
Golda Meir would agree with Netanyahu on this one
There are many issues worth having an argument over; then again, some are better left alone. For example, a debate about whether or not the actress who is hired to play Golda Meir in...
NGOs front and center in the battle over reforming Israel’s legal system
Much-needed reform that will correct an overreaching Supreme Court, and thereby make Israel more democratic, or a threat to the democratic values of the state that will destroy the political system’s checks and balances?
That...
Jewish classical education master’s to debut in fall
The Tikvah Fund and the University of Dallas have teamed up on a master’s degree in humanities with a concentration in Jewish classical education. The program, of Tikvah’s Lobel Center for Jewish Classical Education, is designed...
NY Times story on Orthodox school finances ‘misleading,’ says school official
The superintendent of the Kiryas Joel Village Union Free School District in New York is responding to allegations in a New York Times report on Monday that it misused funds the town allotted for the public-school system...
Three more judicial reform bills pass first reading in Knesset
Three draft laws related to the government’s judicial reform program passed their first reading in the Knesset plenum on Wednesday.
The first, coined “Deri Law 2.0,” passed by a vote of 62-53. It would prevent...
Iranian FM: IAEA officials to travel to Tehran ‘in coming days’
International Atomic Energy Agency officials will visit Tehran in the near future, Iran’s top diplomat said on Wednesday, after the U.N. nuclear watchdog’s inspectors last week detected uranium enriched to 84% purity in the Islamic Republic.
“In...
American Jews viciously targeted across the country
A recent series of violent attacks against the American Jewish community shows that the increasing fear felt by Jews in the United States is a real and present danger.
An Asian American man shot two Jewish worshippers...