Monthly Archives: July 2023
Nuclear story ‘not over,’ says author of book behind ‘Oppenheimer’ film
Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster film “Oppenheimer,” now in theaters, explores the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer—the so-called “father” of the atomic bomb and one of history’s most famous and controversial Jews.
One of the authors of the...
Rediscovering the graves of three ‘esteemed’ Moroccan rabbis after 60 years
The tombs of three celebrated 17th- and 18th-century rabbis—Jacob Ben Malca, Hasday Almosnino and Jacob Marrache—have been rediscovered after more than 60 years at a cemetery in Tétouan in northern Morocco.
Renewed knowledge of the...
Long-overdue judicial reform process finally underway
Amid the largest and most well-funded protest movement in Israel’s history, the democratically elected governing coalition passed the first reform in a historic process aimed at bringing Israel’s activist Supreme Court in line with the judicial...
Drop Roger Waters, dozen-plus Jewish groups urge music company
German media conglomerate Bertelsmann announced in 2016 that it had, effectively, told Pink Floyd frontman Rogers Waters “Wish You Were Here” and let’s make “Money” while being “Comfortably Numb” to the chutzpah of a company with...
Haley to AOC: ‘Why does Israel get under your skin?’
Nikki Haley, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, knew exactly where she had seen the sort of double standards shown by nine representatives who voted against a resolution defending the Jewish state from accusations...
Netanyahu: ‘All agree that Israel must remain a strong democracy’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu again called for broad agreement on his government’s plans in an address to the nation following the unilateral passing of key judicial reform legislation.
On Monday afternoon, all 64 members of Netanyahu’s...
Following first stage of judicial reform passage, US Jewish groups pick sides
The same day that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was released from the hospital after pacemaker surgery, the Knesset passed a key piece of the coalition’s judicial reform legislation on Monday. The law bars judges from using...
Knesset passes first judicial reform bill into law
The Knesset passed a key piece of the coalition's judicial reform legislation into law on Monday.
All 64 members of the coalition, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was released from hospital on Monday morning following a procedure to...
Most Israelis unhappy with the state of democracy
More than half of Israelis are dissatisfied with how democracy works in their country.
The results from the Central Bureau of Statistics' 2022 Social Survey on the Perception of Democracy and Civic Engagement were published...
13 years after saving infant, medics join ‘miracle’ bar mitzvah
In a heartwarming reunion, a team of medics were invited to the recent bar mitzvah celebration of Shmuel Kovetzik in Kfar Chabad, near Tel Aviv, whose life they saved at birth.
“We had a traumatic...