Daily Archives: January 28, 2025
Edmund Landau, Mathematician Hounded by Nazis
Edmund Georg Hermann (Yehezkel) Landau was born on February 14, 1877 into the family of a successful Berlin Jewish gynecologist, Professor Leopold Landau. His mother Johanna came from the famous Jacobi banking house. Until the age...
Herzog gets a ‘wake-up’ call, but the rest of the left are sound asleep
Israeli President Isaac Herzog is backing away from his previous support for Palestinian statehood, saying that the Hamas-led assault in his country on Oct. 7, 2023, changed his thinking.
Speaking on Jan. 21 at the annual...
Netanyahu is first foreign leader invited by Trump to White House, Israel says
U.S. President Donald Trump invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to visit the White House on Feb. 4, the Prime Minister’s Office stated on Tuesday.
In fact, Netanyahu is the first foreign leader Trump has...
Danon to UNSC: Israel’s UNRWA ban comes into force in 48 hours
Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon informed the Security Council on Tuesday that Jerusalem intends to terminate all ties with the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in 48 hours, asserting that...
‘Build a better world one good deed at a time,’ says Holocaust survivor, 81
It was a stroke of luck that the cattle car in which Gabriella Major sat as a small child with her mother and grandmother in 1944 diverted to the Strasshof transit camp near Vienna,...
Netanyahu reportedly planning to meet Trump at White House next week
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington next week, Hebrew media reported on Tuesday.
While Netanyahu's visit to the United States has not been finalized, the...
Allowing Jews to buy private Judea and Samaria lands will end ‘open racism,’ says...
Pending legislation abolishing restrictions on Jews buying privately-owned land in Judea and Samaria would correct a historic injustice, Religious Zionism Party lawmaker Moshe Solomon told JNS Tuesday.
"The current situation is absurd," said the member...
House reps reintroduce bipartisan Holocaust-education bill
Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) led 61 of his colleagues in the U.S. House of Representatives in reintroducing the Holocaust Education and Antisemitism Lessons (HEAL) Act to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Monday.
The bill instructs...
‘Red Rocket’ helps propel YU basketball forward
Coming into the season, the Yeshiva University Maccabees (“Macs”) in New York City knew that with no dominant centers or power forwards, the team would have to rely heavily on shooting guard Zevi Samet. While...
Trump is right about letting Palestinians leave Gaza
President Donald Trump is often at his best when he discards conventional wisdom and what the experts say is the only solution to any given problem. That was clearly the case when, during a...