Tag: United States
American Jewish Committee Statement on “Act of Sedition” by Washington Insurrectionists
The assault January 6 on the U.S. Capitol by loyalists inspired and incited by President Trump was not a political protest. It was an act of sedition by individuals, some armed with military-style weapons,...
Netanyahu against Capitol violence but maintains full support for Trump
The riots in which participants stormed the Capitol building are the opposite of American and Israeli values, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday, the morning after the violent events in Washington, at the...
January 6, 1941: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivered his “Four Freedoms” State of the...
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivered his “Four Freedoms” State of the Union Address on this date in 1941, in which he justified America’s role as an “arsenal of democracy” against Nazism through the lend-lease...
UCLA launches Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience
UCLA has opened North America’s first permanent academic home for the study of music of American Jewish experience.
Housed in the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, the new Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish...
בײַדענס אָפּקלײַב פֿאַר מלוכה־סעקרעטאַר איז דער אור־אייניקל פֿון אַ ייִדישן שרײַבער (מיט אוידיאָ)
מע קען זיך צוהערן צו אַנדערע אַרטיקלען פֿונעם פֿאָרווערטס פֿאָרגעלייענט דורך שׂרה־רחל שעכטער, ווי אויך אַנדערע פֿאָרווערטס־רעקאָרדירונגען, דורכן קוועטשן דאָ.
ווי איר האָט שוין אפֿשר געלייענט, האָט דער פֿריש דערוויילטער פּרעזידענט דזשאָו בײַדען אויסגעקליבן דעם ייִדישן...
US frees former convicted spy Jonathan Pollard from parole
Jonathan Pollard, a former intelligence analyst who served three decades in prison for spying for and giving classified information to Israel, has been freed.
The U.S. Parole Commission declined to renew Pollard’s parole conditions and...
Yiddisher Black cantors from 100 years ago rediscovered thanks to rare recording
Early 1920s newspaper ads for the blockbuster New York Yiddish stage shows Dos Khupe Kleyd (The Wedding Dress) and Yente Telebende (Loquacious Battle‐Ax), featured a Black artist among the spotlighted performers. This was Thomas LaRue, a Yiddish-speaking singer widely...
There’s a Proud Boys chapter in Israel
The Proud Boys, a club of self-identified “western chauvinists” who have been energized by President Donald Trump’s request during Tuesday night’s debate that they “stand by,” have a chapter in Israel, despite the group’s...
University of Illinois student government passes BDS measure for second time this year
The student government of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign passed a resolution on Wednesday night that in part called on the university to divest from Northrop Grumman, Raytheon Company, Lockheed Martin, Caterpillar Inc. and Elbit...
US points to Iranian belligerence as justification for sanctions snapback
“We don’t intend to build a bomb.” So said Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in a video call this week arranged by the Council on Foreign Relations. Zarif added that Iran has “exercised...