Daily Archives: June 6, 2024
The cost of altruism
For millennia, the Jewish people have upheld the noble concept of tikkun olam, the idea that individuals bear responsibility for healing and repairing the world.
This profound principle has inspired generations to act with compassion, empathy...
‘Indefinitely end shipment of weapons, artillery to Israel,’ NAACP tells Biden
The NAACP, a 115-year-old civil-rights organization headquartered in Baltimore, is calling on U.S. President Joe Biden to stop sending weapons to the Jewish state and to those who support the Hamas terror organization.
“Draw the...
IDF attacks terrorists ‘deep in Jenin,’ thwarts attack
The Israel Defense Forces launched an intense counterterrorism operation deep inside the Samaria city of Jenin on Thursday, arresting one Palestinian suspect under the cover of airstrikes, the military said.
“Over the past hours, soldiers...
Rep. Lawler addresses 600 graduates of Touro, accepts honorary degree
Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.), who introduced the Antisemitism Awareness Act into Congress, received an honorary degree from Touro University at its 50th annual commencement.
The congressman addressed the nearly 600 graduates and their families at the 50th...
Delta, United airlines resume flights to Israel
At 3:30 p.m. in Newark, N.J., United Airlines flight 84 is scheduled to depart from terminal C, gate 138 at Newark Liberty International Airport on Thursday. It is slated to arrive on Friday in...
Give ICC prosecutor ‘taste of own medicine,’ senators tell US attorney general
Four Republican senators are urging Merrick Garland, the U.S. attorney general, to investigate the International Criminal Court’s prosecutor, whom they accused of having “broken American law by materially supporting terrorism through his unjust and unjustified targeting...
US won’t say if it would work with Yair Golan, who denounced haredi Jews
The U.S. State Department commented for the first time on Thursday on controversial statements about ultra-Orthodox Jews by the incoming chief of Israel’s Labor Party, Yair Golan, who was elected with 95% of the...
Jewish students, blocked from UCLA campus, file suit against school
The University of California, Los Angeles allegedly allowed pro-Hamas protesters to prevent Jewish students from entering campus this spring, according to a lawsuit.
On Wednesday, three Jewish students—Yitzchok Frankel, Joshua Ghayoum and Eden Shemuelian—filed suit against their school, charging...
US sanctions ‘militant’ Palestinian group in Judea, Samaria
The U.S. State Department is sanctioning the Palestinian terrorist group Lions’ Den, Foggy Bottom announced on Thursday.
The department called the group, which Washington does not designate as a foreign terrorist organization, “a militant Palestinian group centered in...
On 30th anniversary of AMIA bombing, House reps call for justice
The four co-chairs of the Latino-Jewish Congressional Caucus submitted a resolution on Wednesday to hold accountable the Iranian-sponsored terrorists who bombed the Buenos Aires Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA) building on July 18, 1994, leaving 85 dead and more than...