Monthly Archives: August 2023
Secure Community Network tells X (Twitter): Stop boosting Jew-hatred
Since the acquisition of Twitter (now called X) by business magnate Elon Musk, the social-media platform’s verification process has “enhanced” certain antisemitic content. For example, extensive coverage of the trial of the Pittsburgh synagogue...
Jerusalem ceremony celebrates 2023 Sami Rohr Prize winner, finalists
Iddo Gefen, a neuroscience researcher and writer, was honored on Tuesday in Jerusalem for his debut short-story collection Jerusalem Beach, which won the $100,000 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. Daniella Zamir was recognized for her translation, for...
Novel highlights sacrifices of Ethiopian Jewish immigrants to Israel
Kim Salzman, Israel and overseas director at the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh, spent more than 13 years writing her debut novel, Straddling Black and White, which she published earlier this year.
“I gave birth to three...
A Talk about Jewish San Diego at Yiddishland
I’ve been invited by Jana Mazurkiewicz Meisarosh, the energetic, entrepreneurial founder of the Yiddish Academic and Arts Association of North America (YAAANA), to discuss Schlepping and Schmoozing Along the Interstate 5 at her Yiddishland site at...
Antisemitism must not prevail in America
Over the years, antisemitism has evolved, but sadly, not for the better.
In many ways, antisemitism has been normalized and mainstreamed throughout all parts of American society. While Jews represent roughly 2% of the U.S....
Is Barbie liberal or ‘Kenservative’?
In the 1950s, a Jewish woman born in Denver, Colo., to parents who fled persecution in Eastern Europe, decided that the toy market needed adult-themed dolls for children.
Ruth Handler (1916-2002) came up with the idea...
200 Israelis, Jews rescued from northern Ethiopia
More than 200 Israelis and Ethiopian Jews were rescued from northern Ethiopia on Thursday afternoon amid ongoing violence, the Prime Minister's Office and Israeli Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem announced in a joint statement.
A total...
In Israel, House Democrats reaffirm ‘solidarity with the Jewish state’
Two dozen Democrats from the U.S. House of Representatives—led by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.)—are in Israel for a six-day trip that started earlier this week, sponsored by the American...
Orthodox Jewish mayor of Florida town receives neo-Nazi death threat
Shlomo Danzinger, the Orthodox Jewish mayor of Surfside, Fla., is reportedly under police protection following a neo-Nazi death threat against him and his family.
Danziger received a threatening email on Aug. 4 from someone who...
Abbas fires 13 PA governors
Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas issued a decree removing 13 of his 16 regional governors from their posts, the P.A.'s Wafa news agency reported on Thursday.
In Judea and Samaria, Abbas ordered the forced retirement of the...