Daily Archives: December 28, 2023
San Diego Jewish World ‘Sold’ Back to Donald H. Harrison for $2
SAN DIEGO — Veteran journalist Donald H. Harrison has reacquired ownership of San Diego Jewish World and will resume as its publisher and editor as of January 1, 2024, it was jointly announced by Harrison and...
Herb Kohl Z”L, former U.S. Senator and Milwaukee Bucks owner, Dead at 88
MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin (SDJW)– While Kohls Department Store co-owner Herb Kohl served in the U.S. Senate for four terms, a sign on his door read “The Bucks Stop Here” – a pun on Harry Truman’s...
Brooklyn-based restaurant takes the cake
A black-and-white, seven-layer cake from Gertrude’s, a restaurant that serves “Jew-ish cuisine” in Brooklyn, N.Y., is one of the city’s “Top 8” dishes, according to The New York Times.
Gertrude’s, in the Prospect Heights neighborhood, is...
Mia Shem opens up about Gaza captivity: ‘Everyone there is a terrorist’
In her first television interview since being released from Hamas captivity in the Gaza Strip four weeks ago, Israeli Mia Shem opens up about the abuse she suffered at the hands of Palestinian residents...
US officials warn of booming Jew-hatred in Latin America
The Brazilian Israelite Confederation used to see one complaint of bigotry a day in October 2022 against the more than 100,000 Jews in South America’s largest nation. One year later, it reports receiving an average of...
American-Israeli missing since Hamas attack declared dead
A 70-year-old American-Israeli teacher who was shot by Hamas terrorists when out for a walk with her husband at their kibbutz on the morning of Oct. 7 has been declared dead, her community announced...
Stop ‘ideological indoctrination’ of DEI, says Jewish Institute for Liberal Values head
The anti-Israel climate on U.S. campuses today derives from a combination of 1960s moral relativism and antisemitic Soviet propaganda, David Bernstein, founder of the Jewish Institute for Liberal Values, said in an extensive interview...
‘Couldn’t do my job’ if not an optimist,’ Lipstadt tells ‘Washington Post’
Jennifer Rubin, an ostensibly-conservative opinion writer at The Washington Post, devoted her Dec. 26 column to an interview with Deborah Lipstadt, special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism at the U.S. State Department.
The envoy and professor told...
After canceling Christmas, PA nixes New Year’s celebrations
Palestinian localities in Judea and Samaria will not celebrate New Year's next week, Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh announced on Wednesday, days after the P.A.-controlled city of Bethlehem moved to cancel its traditional...
IRGC chief calls for ‘removal of Zionist regime’ at Mousavi funeral
The head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps called for the annihilation of Israel on Thursday at a state funeral in Tehran for Razi Mousavi, a senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officer killed in...