Daily Archives: January 21, 2025
Frances Perkins, Nation’s First ‘Madam Secretary’ Tried to Help European Jewish Refugees
Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins’s Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany by Rebecca Brenner Graham; New York: Citadel Press Books imprint of Kensington Publishing Corp.; © 2025; ISBN 9780806-543178; 280 pages...
PA must pay terror victims, Israel’s top court says
Israel’s Supreme Court last week dismissed a petition against a law that compensates the victims of Palestinian terrorist attacks using Palestinian Authority funds.
Attorney Asher Stub from the Justice for Terror Victims group, which initiated...
A happy 20th anniversary for Mahmoud Abbas
It was 20 years ago this week that Mahmoud Abbas was elected to a single four year term as chairman of the Palestinian Authority. I suspect he’s having a very happy anniversary.
When the 89-year-old...
Herzog thanks Qatari prime minister for advancing hostage deal
Israeli President Isaac Herzog met on Tuesday with Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, the prime minister of Qatar, on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Herzog thanked the Qatari premier...
Halevi to resign in March, cites ‘responsibility for IDF’s failure’
Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi informed Defense Minister Israel Katz that he plans to resign in March, Hebrew media reported on Tuesday.
Halevi, who succeeded Lt. Gen. (res.) Aviv Kochavi in...
Trump revokes Biden sanctions on Judea, Samaria residents
U.S. President Donald Trump revoked a host of what he called "harmful" executive orders and actions under former President Joe Biden, including Executive Order 14115 of Feb. 1, 2024, which sanctioned Jews living in...
Jerry Nadler accuses Elon Musk of Hitler salute at inaugural celebration
Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) accused the billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk of performing a Nazi salute during a celebration honoring U.S. President Donald Trump at the Capitol One Arena in Washington.
Musk, who has supported Trump,...
After Assad, after the ceasefire, continuing the goals of jihadi terror
Following the collapse of the Bashar Assad regime in Syria, jihadi terror groups in the Middle East are being reconfigured. While evident and significant differences exist between these groups, they do share a single...
