Daily Archives: December 27, 2023
Isaac Arazi Z’L, 80, head of ‘tiny’ Jewish community in Lebanon
The octogenarian former president of the about 30-strong Jewish community in Lebanon, who had sought to conserve the abandoned Magen Avraham synagogue in central Beirut, died on Dec. 27 and was buried the same...
Porsche ‘researching, coming to terms’ with history during Holocaust
The German car company Porsche, which is reportedly worth about $73 billion, celebrated its 75th birthday over the summer with “a frenzy of sports cars whizzing around its Stuttgart headquarters in front of an...
Penn ‘failed to take concrete action’ on Jew-hatred, state governor says
The recent resignation of University of Pennsylvania president Liz Magill and board chair Scott Bok has thrown Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro “into a national debate over when constitutionally protected speech veers into impermissible hate speech,” The Wall...
Blinken to visit Israel next week
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is expected to visit Israel late next week as part of a Mideast diplomatic swing to discuss the war in Gaza and other regional crises, Axios reported on Wednesday.
It will...
Iran: Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre was response to 2020 Soleimani killing
The Oct. 7 massacre in southwestern Israel was a response to the 2020 killing of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force Commander Qassem Soleimani by the United States, Tehran claimed on Wednesday.
"The Al-Aqsa Flood...
Erdoğan proclaims Netanyahu is ‘no different’ than Hitler
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Wednesday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is "no different" than Adolf Hitler due to Israel's prosecution of the war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
"We watched Israel's...
Next steps in the Red Sea: Offense, not just defense
Recent events in the transit lanes of the Red Sea have underscored the need for international action to restore freedom of navigation for commercial shipping traffic. Attacks on commercial ships by the Iranian proxy...
Popular Israeli coffee ditches the Turks
Farewell, Turkish coffee.
A leading Israeli food and beverage company is temporarily removing the words "Turkish Coffee" from the packaging of its popular ground coffee.
The decision by the Strauss Group to break with its 60-year...
‘Nova 6.29’ exhibit is a way to work through the grief
“I came looking for Nadav’s sweatshirt and hat. I stayed because I felt close to him—as if I could live through what he lived through,” Hedva Biton from Ofakim told JNS at the “Nova...
IDF confirms Jewish nationalistic crime in Judea and Samaria drops drastically
There was a significant decline in "nationalistic incidents" perpetrated by Israelis in Judea and Samaria during the second month of the current Gaza war, figures gathered by the police and the IDF indicate.
According to police data,...