Daily Archives: September 5, 2023
Ishay Ribo draws some 15,000 to Madison Square Garden
Some of recent history’s biggest musical acts have headlined concerts at Madison Square Garden. On Sunday, Orthodox Jewish crossover singer Ishay Ribo became the first Israeli musician to do so, joining the company of...
‘A milestone moment’: Papua New Guinea opens embassy in Jerusalem
The Oceana nation of Papua New Guinea inaugurated its embassy in Jerusalem on Tuesday, becoming the fifth country to maintain a diplomatic mission in Israel’s capital city.
The move by the strongly Christian Pacific nation...
Los Angeles-based Jewish philanthropist Elissa Czuker dies at 53
Elissa Czuker, who with her husband, Edward Czuker, donated to many prominent Jewish and political causes, died on Aug. 25. She was 53 years old.
The mother of nine was active in the Young Israel...
Rabbis to offer sermons on everything from AI to Ukraine on High Holidays
Avraham Bronstein, the rabbi of the Hampton Synagogue in Westhampton Beach, N.Y., has been feeling throughout the year like there are many large forces shaping the world that are beyond human control—from rising antisemitism...
Elon Musk blames the Jews
ADL is a garbage leftist organization. It never was good for anything, but under its current head, Jonathan Greenblatt, it’s become a generic woke group dedicated to intersectionality. I have spent over a decade...
Must Jews ‘repent’ for voting for Trump?
In the weeks before the observance of Rosh Hashanah, religious Jews give a lot of lip service to the idea of repentance. That is the main point of our observance in the Hebrew month...
Musk, ADL blame each other for antisemitism on former Twitter
In a “very frank and productive” meeting on Aug. 29, Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO and national director of the Anti-Defamation League, and Linda Yaccarino, CEO of X (formerly Twitter), discussed “what works and what doesn’t”...
Blinken holds phone calls with Netanyahu, Abbas
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke on the phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, according to Matthew Miller, spokesman for the U.S. State Department.
Blinken "reaffirmed the strength of the bilateral...
Abbas blames America for Israeli counterterror raids
Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday said the United States is responsible for Israeli incursions into Palestinian towns in Judea and Samaria.
The P.A.'s Wafa news agency report quoted Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesman for the presidency, to that...
Israel detains 53 Eritreans after Tel Aviv riot
Fifty-three suspects from Saturday's violent clashes between rival Eritrean factions in Tel Aviv have been placed in administrative detention.
The suspects were transferred to Givon Prison in the central Israeli city of Ramla on Monday and Tuesday...