Monthly Archives: January 2024
Muslim academics spew antisemitism in Texas, Southern California
In Friday sermons streamed live on YouTube, two men let loose with a broad variety of Jew-hating invective.
Ghaith Arodaki, who identifies as an entrepreneur and recently graduated from San Jose State University, spoke on Dec. 29 for...
Jewish students at the University of Maryland ‘watching our backs a lot’
National discussions about campus antisemitism since the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks by Hamas in Israel have largely overlooked one of the nation’s largest Jewish student populations: the University of Maryland, College Park.
The 1,340-acre campus,...
Even before Oct. 7, Jewish groups struggled with security issues, burnout
Leading Edge released its report “The State of the Jewish Workplace 2023” based on data from 18,212 employees and 304 CEOs at 327 organizations. The information comes from a May 2023 survey.
The results of the survey—the...
ADL vice president resigns after three others who left tech team
Yaël Eisenstat, who until this month worked as a vice president and director of the Technology Center for the Anti-Defamation League, announced her resignation and shift to a new position at another organization focusing on election...
Alanis Morissette on finding her Jewish roots, fates of family in Holocaust
The musician who rose to prominence in the 1990s with her multiple hits, including “You Oughta Know,” has now learned the truth about her extended family.
Alanis Morissette appeared on the PBS show “Finding Your Roots,” in which researchers...
Anti-Israel Protesters Stir Rage of Motorists, Airline Passengers
Star Trek’s Captain James T. Kirk endured the wrath of Khan, Hamas is suffering the wrath of the Israel Defense Forces and pro-Palestinian blockaders are starting to confront the most ghastly of the wrathful...
A longer Gaza conflict’s implications for nuclear war with Iran
Introduction: In the closing days of 2023, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu advised his nation that Operation Swords of Iron would take additional months to complete. During this period of extended Israeli involvement with counter-terrorism...
A new play tells the true story of a former Hasid who translated the...
The true story of a formerly Hasidic Baltimore man who encouraged Jews to convert to Christianity during the Holocaust serves as the unlikely jumping-off point for a new, Yiddish-language play beginning previews this week...
Former Mossad chief Zvi Zamir dies at 98
Zvi Zamir, the fourth director of Israel's Mossad national intelligence agency, died in Tel Aviv on Jan. 2. He was 98 years old.
Born Zvicka Zarzevsky in 1925 in Lodz, Poland, Zamir immigrated to Israel...
The two Yosefs
On the last Wednesday of 2023, the Israeli media reported the heartbreaking story of a soldier’s posthumous letter to his bereaved parents. Sgt. First Class Yosef Gitarts wrote, “I fell honorably for my people....