Yearly Archives: 2023

In his memoir, Spare, Prince Harry accused brother Prince William—heir apparent of the British throne—and sister-in-law Princess Kate of recommending that he don a Nazi costume, which he called “one of the biggest mistakes in my life.”...

Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Monday told a gathering of some 100 municipal officials that a compromise judicial reform proposal was nearly complete, and called on lawmakers to find common ground. “The reforms as they...

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is scheduled to arrive in Israel on Thursday, amid reports that Jerusalem could be readying a strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities. The Pentagon chief arrived in Amman, Jordan on Sunday for...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met on Sunday with his Slovakian counterpart Eduard Heger in Jerusalem. The two leaders discussed deepening bilateral cooperation, particularly in the fields of technology, innovation and tourism. “Slovakia and Israel...

The Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) will take over responsibility for protecting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife and sons, the Ministerial Committee for Shin Bet Affairs decided on Sunday. The decision comes in response to...

“Cursed is Hitler, cursed is Mussolini … Blessed is Roosevelt, blessed is Churchill.” With these words, the Moroccan scribe Prosper Hassine concluded his account of World War II and the Holocaust. The story was familiar,...

Joe Woolf, a South African Jewish volunteer in the foreign-fighters unit Machal who conducted research that helped preserve that group’s legacy for 75 years after Israel’s War of Independence, died on Feb. 28 at...

Wherefore is this Haggadah diff’rent from all oth’r Haggadahs? Author Martin Bodek, the writer of the Emoji Haggadah, Festivus Haggadah and Coronavirus Haggadah, has released another version of the Passover story, translated fully into Elizabethan English. Author Martin Bodek....

Credo quia absurdum, “I believe because it is absurd”-Tertullian There are many reasons to fear Donald J. Trump’s return to the White House, but one remains especially worrisome. It stems from the former president’s conspicuous...

The victim of the most recent Palestinian terrorist attack was a young American. Elan Ganeles, a 27-year-old native of West Hartford, Conn., was gunned down on the road between Jericho and the Dead Sea...