Monthly Archives: April 2024
Blinken heading to Riyadh for talks with Abbas, Arab leaders
U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is scheduled to meet with Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas and Arab leaders this week on the sidelines of a World Economic Forum summit in Saudi Arabia, the...
An Artist Who Repurposes
When immigrants first arrive, everything is new for them, and they must work to repurpose their life. Many volunteers, including Roni Breite, guide them in doing that.
In a similar way, Breite gives new life...
Israeli archaeologists in Jerusalem recently found a 2,000-year-old clay token that was used in...
Ideas that reduce complex problems into simple mantras are always popular. But those that cloak a political ideology in the sort of language and symbolism in sync with the cultural fashions of the moment and...
Archaeology, Passover and Zionism
Israeli archaeologists in Jerusalem recently found a 2,000-year-old clay token that was used in connection with offerings at the Second Temple in Jerusalem. The four-inch token may seem small, but it’s actually a very...
‘Must do all we can’ to save hostages, says Rep. Brad Schneider
A video clip that Israelis of a dual U.S.-Israeli citizen being held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip has provoked a rebuke from a vocal pro-Israel Democrat in Congress.
“For 201 days, Hersh Goldberg-Polin’s family...
Di Makes (The Plagues)
Words & Music, Voice: Asya Vaisman Schulman
Arrangement, Bass, Guitar, Organ, Toy Piano, Accordion, Melodica, Drums: Ilya Shneyveys
Art: Alexander Vaisman, Shura Vaisman
Animation: Shura Vaisman
2021
Captions available in Yiddish and transliteration with English translation. Choose your language...
Pa. Gov. Shapiro: Failing to protect students’ security ‘absolutely unacceptable’
The chaos at Columbia University in New York City has provoked a response from Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro.
Shapiro, who is Jewish and a graduate of day school in the Philadelphia suburbs, pointed to the...
No mention of Israel in UN General Assembly head’s Passover message
One of the central passages in the Passover liturgy is “Next year in Jerusalem.”
That Zionist hope went unsaid during a Passover greeting that Dennis Francis, president of the U.N. General Assembly, issued earlier this week.
Francis, who...
Woman wounded in terror stabbing in central Israel
An 18-year-old woman was seriously wounded on Friday afternoon in a terror stabbing in Ramla in central Israel.
Magen David Adom emergency medics treated the victim at the scene before evacuating her to Shamir Medical...
Former top Hague judge: Media wrong to report court ruled ‘plausible’ claim of Israeli...
Media reports that the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel was “plausibly” accused of genocide are inaccurate, Joan Donoghue, a judge and former president of the main U.N. judicial arm in The Hague,...