Monthly Archives: February 2023
IDF delegation lands in earthquake-stricken Turkey to set up field hospital
An Israel Defense Forces delegation arrived in Turkey on Wednesday morning to set up a field hospital in the wake of the massive earthquakes this week that have so far claimed the lives of more than...
Netanyahu: Israel cannot count on the PA to fight terrorism
Israel is engaged in a battle against extremist Islamic elements led by the Iranian regime and cannot rely on the Palestinian Authority, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday.
The remarks came during a...
Kanye West’s lawyers finally able to quit
“Seek, and ye shall find.”
So goes the verse in Matthew 7:7, as the King James Version renders it. That may have inspired Kanye West’s lawyers, who reportedly have finally tracked down the rapper–who goes by Ye–in...
Digitization of the papers of Chaim Grade and Inna Hecker Grade is now complete...
(New York, NY; Jerusalem, Israel) 6 February 2023 – The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and the National Library of Israel (NLI) are delighted to announce the completion of the digitization of the Papers...
Kosovo’s tiny Jewish community aims to punch above its size
It has been almost 15 years to the day since Kosovo, a landlocked country of 1.95 million north of Greece, declared independence on Feb. 17, 2008. Its Jewish community numbers just 35 to 50 people, but...
On Tu B’Shevat, let’s celebrate homeland and heartland
Ask any Hebrew school child what the food bokser is, and you’ll receive a description of what sounds like tree bark. But you’ll also see that the student understands that this nearly inedible annual treat comes...
Fearing a Collision Course Between Bibi and American Jews
When Eric Goldstein speaks, Benjamin Netanyahu must listen. Even more so than when others speak, such as U.S. Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), Israeli business executive Eynat Guez, 100,000-plus protesters in Tel Aviv and Israeli...
Why we desperately need Israeli judicial reform
In June 1992, with the defeat of Israel’s Likud government and the ascension of the Labor Party to power, the Palestine Liberation Organization, an outlawed terrorist organization in a state of total war against...
Brooklyn Jewish Community Center Hosts Job Fair for Thousands of Ukrainian Refugees
Thousands of Ukrainian refugees who recently fled their war-torn country amid its ongoing conflict with Russia and are now in Brooklyn, New York, attended a job fair on Feb. 1 hosted by The Edith...
Jewish Federations of North America raises money for Turkey, Syria
The Jewish Federations of North America launched a relief fund to provide humanitarian aid to people in Turkey and Syria after the devastating earthquakes today.
Thousands have been killed in what officials are calling the worst quake...