Daily Archives: January 16, 2024
Catch the Holocaust before it disappears
If you’re a Jew looking for sympathy in these sucker-punch days of hyper-antisemitism, find a way to transport yourself back to the early 1990s, a time when Holocaust memory—“Schindler’s List”; the opening of the...
Ebon Moss-Bachrach in ‘The Bear’ wins Emmy for Best Supporting Actor
The performance of Ebon Moss-Bachrach as divorced father Richie in the TV series “The Bear” has so far collected the two top entertainment awards of the year.
On Monday, Moss-Bachrach, who is 46 and Jewish, received an...
Siberian Exile by Julija Sukys
By the end of the Holocaust, Lithuania suffered one of the highest percentages of Jewish deaths in all of Europe. Before the war, 168, 000 Jews lived there, of which 83 per cent were...
Hamas tunnels are 100s of miles longer than thought with 5,000-plus entry points
Hamas's network of terror tunnels in the Gaza Strip is even more extensive than previously thought, The New York Times cited senior Israeli defense officials as saying on Tuesday, with new assessments indicating it has upwards...
Two Israeli hostages confirmed dead, bodies being held by Hamas
Israeli hostages Yossi Sharabi and Itai Svirsky have died in Hamas captivity in the Gaza Strip, Kibbutz Be’eri announced on Tuesday night in Israel.
Sharabi, 53, and Svirsky, 38, were both featured earlier this week...
Hostages in Gaza yet to receive medicines from Qataris
France has sent badly needed medicines to Qatar for Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, the European nation's embassy in Tel Aviv confirmed to the Times of Israel on Tuesday.
President Emmanuel Macron ordered the foreign...
Netanyahu vows to rebuild southern communities, even as rockets fall
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu on Tuesday promised that Israel would rebuild the towns and kibbutzim in Israel's south.
During a meeting with local community heads at the Israel Defense Forces Southern Command base in Beersheva,...
Far-left antisemitic incidents up 1,753% in Q4 2023
The Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) found a 1,753% increase in incidents of far-left antisemitism in the fourth quarter of 2023 worldwide, compared to the third quarter.
The incidents typically manifested themselves through anti-Israel demonization, delegitimization...
As intense fighting ends in north Gaza, IDF finds 100 rocket sites
Israel's war against Hamas entered its 102nd day on Tuesday, with rocket-alert sirens sounding in western Negev communities.
Over the past 24 hours, IDF forces located some 100 rocket installations and 60 ready-to-launch rockets in...
Trump pledges to solve ‘horrible’ situation in Israel quickly if elected
Former President Donald Trump said on Monday that Israel would not have been attacked on Oct. 7 if he had still been president, and pledged to "solve" the "horrible" situation in the Jewish state...