admin | November 9, 2020
BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE Bruce Springsteen First, let us consider the staggering array of online workouts available these days, especially those geared toward seniors who might have mobility issues. Chair workouts and zero-impact aerobics (ZIP) dominate the list
admin | November 9, 2020
One of Polands most prominent Jewish citizens and Holocaust survivors has added his voice to the growing controversy over the appointment of Effi Eitam, former politician and military commander, to the top position at Yad Vashem. In a letter sent several days ago to President Reuven Rivlin, historian and journalist Marian Turski warned that Eitams appointment as chairman of the Yad Vashem directorate would greatly undermine Yad Vashems authority around the world. Faced with the global rise of nationalism and populism, a renewed wave of antisemitism and the return of Holocaust denial propaganda, the chairman of Yad Vashem needs to have impeccable moral authority, he wrote in the letter, which was also addressed to Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, chairman of the Yad Vashem council, which oversees the Jerusalem-based museum and commemoration center.
admin | November 9, 2020
Sacha Baron Cohen. (Photo by Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic) Sacha Baron Cohen must be thrilled that Donald Trump, the subject that sparked most of Borat Subsequent Movefilms hijinks, has officially lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden.
admin | November 9, 2020
By Alya Zayed The University of Cambridge has agreed to a new definition of antisemitism, with some clarifications to protect free speech.
admin | November 9, 2020
Letters complaining about newspaper articles are unexceptional. Not so letters from the lyse Palace. Last week, the Financial Times published, after the killing of teacher Samuel Paty in Paris and of churchgoers in Nice, an article by its Europe correspondent, Mehreen Khan, critical of French president Emmanuel Macrons policies towards Islam.
admin | November 9, 2020
Free speech and the freedom of expression has been something very important not just this 2020 but the whole year round. With the difference in opinion and the strive for truth, this makes it harder for people to be able to express what they truly feel about certain topics
admin | November 9, 2020
Photo illustration by Slate. Images via Twitter.
admin | November 9, 2020
The attack in Vienna that killed four people on Monday night underscores the transnational threat European countries face from Islamist terrorists. The assault follows the beheading of a schoolteacher in a Paris suburb and a knife attack in Nice that took three lives. In Vienna, the suspected gunman, Kujtim Fejzulai, 20, a dual citizen of Austria and North Macedonia and of Albanian origin, opened fire near a synagogue before being shot dead by the police.
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