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Remembering David Stoliar, the Only Survivor of 1942 Struma Disaster
Last Saturday, the New York Times ran an obituary about David Stoliar, the only survivor aboard the Struma, a ship carrying an estimated 800 Romanian, Bulgarian, and Russian Jews, all fleeing the Holocaust. The ship,...
Shift in tone: Liberals warn Israel against settlements, Palestinians against unilateral statehood bids
The Liberal government on Sunday put out its first statement on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which included calling Israel a “steadfast friend and ally” while also warning it against building more settlements on disputed land.
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Israel’s Top General Praises Iran Deal as ‘Strategic Turning Point’ in Slap at Bibi
Remember the nuclear agreement between Iran and the West? You know — the one that Benjamin Netanyahu insisted was the biggest danger to Israel and the Jews since time immemorial?
Well, Israel’s military chief of...
“Rabin, the Last Day”. A documentary.
Rabin, The Last Day, Amos Gitai’s sprawling, scarific two-and-a-half-hour quasi-documentary on the November 1995 assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin by a young religious fanatic, Yigal Amir, after the signing of the Oslo Accords,...
Historic New York Shul Considers, Then Rejects, ‘SynaCondo’ Plan
Astoried New York Orthodox synagogue, just blocks from the Empire State Building, is looking to its future, but says a report that it may build a gleaming 19-story ‘SynaCondo’ is wrong.
The West Side Jewish...
The Economist: ‘Israelis Seem Especially Susceptible to Hysteria’
A 2012 Economist article claimed that Israelis and their Prime Minister fear Iran because they suffer from "Auschwitz complex" - a “ghetto mentality” evidently based on obsessing over past suffering and reinforced by the Jewish festivals of Purim and...
Putin to European Jews: Come to Mother Russia!
On Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin invited Jews facing anti-Semitism in Europe to return to Russia.
The comments, reported by the RBC, a Russian media outlet, took place during a meeting in Moscow with a delegation...
‘If I Could Say Liberal Jews I Would’
Ted Cruz—a “defender of Israel” who once said “If you will not stand with Israel and the Jews, then I will not stand with you”—came under fire last week when he called out Donald...
EU passes controversial anti-Israel resolution
The European Union (EU) passed on Monday evening a resolution stipulating that all agreements between Israel and the EU not apply to any areas over the 1949 Armistice borders.
In the convoluted wording of the...
Why Pope’s Visit to Rome Ghetto Means So Much to Italian Jews
In 1986, Pope John Paul II made history by paying a visit to Rome’s Great Synagogue.
In 2010, Pope Benedict XVI visited that synagogue again.
In 2016, Pope Francis visited for the third time.
As our ancient...