Daily Archives: August 15, 2023
‘Yidishe Gauchos’ To Ride Again Sept. 9
If you haven’t seen something before, it is new to you, no matter how old it is. That’s the thinking behind Yiddishland scheduling a Sept. 9 showing and discussion by Mark Freeman of his...
Book Review: ‘Inflitration’ by Joshua Kenaz
The death a few months ago of Israeli author, Joshua Kenaz, led to renewed interest in his work, and impelled me to read this book (published by Am Oved in 1986). For me, reading...
Phoenix Suns to retire jersey of former basketball star Amar’e Stoudemire
The Hebrew word lev, Hebrew for “heart,” has a numerical value in Gematria of 32. One of the professional basketball players who played with the most heart—the Israeli citizen and convert to Judaism Amar’e Stoudemire—is...
Zionism, normalization and integration
When Israel signed the Abraham Accords, Haaretz reporter Anshel Pfeffer wrote, “Zionism is an archaic and misleading term in our day and age.” Pfeffer was not the first to claim that, while Zionism was a movement...
The question of the Jewish nation
In 1789, in the wake of the French Revolution, Stanislas Marie Adelaide, Comte de Clermont-Tonnerre, said, “We must refuse everything to the Jews as a nation and accord everything to Jews as individuals.”
A century...
Netanyahu, Levin reportedly seeking to halt judicial reform
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Justice Minister Yariv Levin have agreed to freeze their government's judicial reform program for 12 months, Israel Hayom reported on Tuesday, citing anonymous coalition officials.
Netanyahu and Levin have asked for the...
Zionist Rabbinic Coalition holds second annual conference in Washington
When Rabbi Stuart Weinblatt speaks around the country about the Zionist Rabbinic Coalition, which he chairs, people often tell him, “I thought all rabbis are Zionists.”
“The landscape of the American Jewish community and of the...
Mezuzah scroll in Nahariya hospital replaced with antisemitic note
During a routine inspection of a mezuzah at Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya, hospital personnel discovered that sacred parchment had been stolen and replaced with an antisemitic note.
"All Jews are liars and have no religion; they...
Israeli academia climbs in international rankings
Three Israeli universities appear in the 2023 Academic Ranking of World Universities' top 100 list that the ShanghaiRanking Consultancy published on Tuesday.
The Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot climbed to No. 67 from last...
Smotrich calls for end to incitement after mock grave stunt
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called for an end to incitement by the anti-reform movement on Monday, after protesters set up mock graves outside the offices of his Religious Zionism Party in Jerusalem.
"Enough incitement!" he posted...