Monthly Archives: June 2023
US increases funding for UNRWA
The U.S. State Department has allocated more than $220 million for UNRWA this year despite its schools' curriculum that glorifies violence and terrorism and an agreement that conditions funding on the prevention of teaching hate...
Netanyahu bribery case to proceed despite report of its collapse
The bribery prosecution against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will continue despite a report last week that the case is collapsing, Israel’s attorney general said.
In a closed-door meeting with lawyers from both sides, three Jerusalem District Court...
DeSantis: Iran ‘only understands strength’
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis gave Israel Hayom an exclusive interview on Thursday—his first to an Israeli outlet as an official candidate in the 2024 U.S. presidential race. He discussed a whole range of issues, while attacking...
“Who will write our history”, by Samuel Kassow
The Germans killed the people, the Russians the intellectuals and the others killed our memory wanting to make us believe that we died like sheep when the reality is exactly the opposite; the Jews...
Poets of the Past Features Meaningful Introduction of Primo Levi by Dr. Andrew Viterbi
The memorable Poets of the Past program, featuring Italian-born Holocaust poet, Primo Levi (1919-1987) and Belarus-born Yiddish poet, Bertha Kling (1886-1978), was held last month in the Astor Judaica Library at the Lawrence Family...
Emirati astronaut: From space, Jerusalem looks like ‘flower of all flowers’
Emirati astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi’s Twitter feed is full of photos of different parts of the world taken from the International Space Station.
On June 22, Al Neyadi—whose handle states that he is part of...
Federations, JCPA depart Combat Antisemitism Movement over video row
The Jewish Council for Public Affairs and the Jewish Federations of North America have reportedly distanced themselves from the Combat Antisemitism Movement, a coalition of some 700 organizations that reaches about 4 million people.
The two groups...
Israeli students visit NY, Boston to strengthen ties with American Jews
Graduate students at the University of Haifa’s Ruderman Program for American Jewish Studies recently returned from a trip to New York and Boston, in which they met with Jewish leaders, diplomats and scholars.
Jay Ruderman,...
Michael Jordan to sell majority Hornets stake to Jewish-led investor group
The Charlotte Hornets announced recently that Michael Jordan will sell his majority stake in the team to a group led by Gabe Plotkin and Rick Schnall. The latter two are Jewish and are generally referred to...
Giving ‘progressive’ antisemites the benefit of the doubt
Can you oppose antisemitism while at the same time make common cause with Jew-haters, their organizations and the ideas that propel them forward? The answer from the Biden administration and their allies that control...