Monthly Archives: August 2024
IDF: We destroyed 50 tunnels at Philadelphi Corridor in past month
Israel Defense Forces troops over the past month demolished no fewer than 50 tunnels under the Philadelphi Corridor separating the Gaza Strip from Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, the military revealed on Thursday.
“Forces of the ...
Erdoğan vows to push international community to pressure Jerusalem
Turkey will continue to support the Palestinians’ “just cause” and push the international community to increase pressure on Israel, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan told visiting Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday.
Erdoğan and Abbas met...
Holocaust inversion is going mainstream
Cynthia Nixon, John Oliver, Chef José Andrés. An award-winning writer with an essay in The London Review of Books. Protesters outside the Nova exhibit in Manhattan. Celebrities, faux-academics, and activists. These are some of the people...
Al-Aqsa is a misdirect
The war Israel has been fighting for its existence since Oct. 7 is in response to an unprovoked attack initiated and supported by Iran and Qatar. Despite this, a troubling narrative has emerged from...
Soviet Yiddish artists and writers remembered
Congress for Jewish Culture together with the California Institute for Yiddish Culture and Language, the Jewish Labor Committee and the Workers Circle,
we present this video of yesterday's solemn gathering
טרויער־אַקאַדעמיע
https://youtu.be/Af6ppw_PExM?si=6XhFt2F63Qt-1JRt
In memory of the Soviet Yiddish...
Tlaib’s alma mater among two new schools under federal Title VI probe
The U.S. Department of Education announced on Tuesday that it is investigating Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., and Cooley Law School in Lansing, Mich., for alleged discrimination based on “shared ancestry” under Title VI...
Blinken reportedly delaying Middle East trip due to ‘uncertainty about the situation’
First Axios reported that Antony Blinken, the U.S. secretary of state, was slated to depart on Tuesday for a trip to Israel, Egypt and Qatar. Then, Axios said, citing two unnamed sources, the trip was scrapped.
“Secretary of State Blinken has...
Neo-Nazis holding rifles and swastika flags march during Ohio musical festival
A dozen or so individuals marched during the downtown Springfield Jazz & Blues Fest in Ohio on Aug. 10, carrying rifles and swastika flags, and wearing red shirts, black pants, boots and black ski masks.
Ohio is an open-carry...
Young Jewish Chicagoans excited, apprehensive ahead of Democratic National Convention
With the Democratic National Convention scheduled to take place from Aug. 19 to Aug. 22 in the Windy City, young Jewish Chicagoans told JNS that they worry about potential political unrest around the gathering,...
National Library of Israel receives gift of original David Moss Haggadah
The National Library of Israel has received the original version of a modern masterpiece of Hebrew manuscript illumination: the Moss Haggadah. Created by renowned Judaica artist David Moss, it is a large-format, handwritten and...