Daily Archives: November 5, 2024
Bernie Marcus, billionaire Home Depot founder and Jewish philanthropist, 95
Bernard “Bernie” Marcus, the Jewish billionaire founder of Home Depot who donated extensively to Jewish causes, died in Boca Raton, Fla. He was 95.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) called Marcus "a good friend...
Still learning of liberators, all these years later
Like many children of survivors, Bernice Lerner has spent most of her life ruminating on the Holocaust and writing about big questions. How was the Holocaust allowed to occur? What is the connection between...
Is Brandeis University being ‘Palestinized?’
Why is the Israel Studies Center at Brandeis University describing the Hamas war against Israel merely as the “suffering of Israelis and Palestinians?” Why is the center boasting that it “brings Palestinian scholars” to...
The other ‘Iron Wall’ article
This week a century and one year ago, Ze’ev Jabotinsky’s article “The Iron Wall” was published in the Russian-language weekly, Razsvet, on Nov. 4 in Berlin. So famous has it become that last month, The New...
Netanyahu fires Gallant, names Israel Katz as defense minister
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Tuesday that he fired Yoav Gallant as defense minister and named Israel Katz, the Israeli foreign minister, as the new head of the Defense Ministry.
The announcement came...
A Muslim and a Jew from Dubai spread message of coexistence in Australia
A Muslim political strategist from the United Arab Emirates and a Jewish entrepreneur based in Dubai are promoting the landmark Abraham Accords during a joint tour of Australia this week, seeking to combat antisemitism...
Argentina’s new foreign minister sworn in on Torah
Argentine President Javier Milei on Monday officially appointed Geraldo Werthein, a Jewish businessman and former ambassador to the United States, as the country’s foreign minister.
Werthein is a former Argentine ambassador to the United States...
Herzog to award ‘Presidential Medal of Honor’ to Lauder, Hoenlein, others
President Isaac Herzog announced on Monday the award of the Israeli Presidential Medal of Honor to eight Jewish and non-Jewish leaders from around the world, in recognition of their long-standing contributions to the State...
Food vendor in Rome tells Jewish customer ‘Hitler was right’
A video clip circulating widely on social media has highlighted the concerning normalization of overt antisemitism on European streets, demonstrating how the multi-front war against Israel has emboldened public displays of anti-Jewish sentiment across the continent.
The...