Monthly Archives: May 2023
Holocaust audio archive at Jewish Museum Berlin now UNESCO ‘World Heritage’
As of this month, the Jewish Museum Berlin is home to a collection of objects that is listed on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Memory of the World Register.
The original 16mm and restored...
Biden’s ‘Complicity’ With Pro-Palestinian Rhetoric
“Silence is complicity.”
By his own standards, President Biden undermined his expansive project to confront antisemitism in America that he introduced last Wednesday, and 15 days before that he ignored an opportunity to directly take...
How and why international law and strategy should be merged when engaging Middle Eastern...
ISRAEL, COUNTER-TERRORISM AND INTERNATIONAL LAW: ANALYTIC CHALLENGES OF SYSTEM
“The existence of `system’ in the world is obvious to every observer of nature, no matter whom.”
-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man (1959)
Whether...
John Kerry to visit Jerusalem as part of Mideast working trip
John Kerry, U.S. special presidential envoy for climate, will visit Jerusalem as part of a May 31 to June 7 trip that will also take him to Amman, Dubai and Oslo, the U.S. State...
EXCLUSIVE Jonathan Pollard tells all
In this week's “Wine with Adam,” host and CEO of Israel Innovation Fund Adam Scott Bellos is joined by ex-spy Jonathan Pollard in an exclusive tell-all interview.
CUNY condemns law student’s commencement ‘hate speech’
A few days after video footage recirculated on social media of an antisemitic commencement speech by a law student at City University of New York on May 12, the public university’s board of trustees and chancellor...
Kamala Harris to celebrate US-Israel ‘unshakeable bond’ at embassy event
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris will celebrate the “unshakeable” U.S.-Israel bond and will “reaffirm the United States’ ironclad commitment to Israel’s security” in a June 6 talk, an unnamed White House official told Axios.
The vice...
One small step for brain chemistry
Scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have identified a new molecular mechanism for autism, potentially opening up new methods of treatment.
Dr. Haitham Amal and his team at the university's School of Pharmacy in the...
US envoy sought to advance Iran deal in low-key Oman visit
U.S. President Joe Biden’s White House Coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa Brett McGurk visited Oman on May 8 to discuss with officials there the possibility of reaching out to Iran regarding...
Israel’s immigration ministry to refocus efforts on the West
In part due to the war in Ukraine, Israel is reorienting its immigration efforts from former Soviet Union countries to Western nations, such as France and the United States.
Israel's Aliyah and Integration Minister Ofir...