admin | December 5, 2020
(JTA) The constant stream of breaking news about American politics and the coronavirus pandemic has hidden a sobering fact: Six prominent Holocaust survivors who had dedicated much of their lives to educating others against hatred have died in Europe over the past month. These are their stories.
admin | December 5, 2020
Two former Oklahoma state representatives have called on OU President Joseph Harroz to permanently return a stolen painting to a Holocaust survivor. French Holocaust survivor Leone Meyers painting Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep a work from notable impressionist painter Camille Pissarro was stolen by Nazis from the home of her father during WWII.
admin | December 5, 2020
Mass will be said in Notre-Dame on April 16th, 2024 five years after a mysterious fire all but destroyed the cathedral. France is not just rebuilding
admin | December 5, 2020
The Telegraph China is conducting "human testing" to create "biologically enhanced soldiers," the head of US intelligence has claimed as he warned that Beijing poses the biggest threat to America's national security. In an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, John Ratcliffe, the director of national intelligence, warned that the US must be prepared for an "open-ended" confrontation with China which he likened to the Cold War.
admin | December 5, 2020
On the same day that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo became the first high-ranking American diplomat to visit an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank, he also doubled down on the Trump administrations opposition to a global pro-Palestinian movement to boycott Israel. The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement relies on putting political and economic pressure on Israel.
admin | December 5, 2020
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo departs a security briefing on Mount Bental in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, near the Israeli-Syrian border, Thursday, Nov.
admin | December 5, 2020
At an August rally in Wisconsin, Donald Trump ditched the dog whistle of Jewish control and said the quiet part out loud. We moved the capital of Israel to Jerusalem, Trump said to cheers at an Oshkosh airport.
admin | December 5, 2020
Reviewing the first volume of a new biography of JFK by the Harvard historian Fredrik Logevall, P.J. ORourke reflects on why a distant, hazy, reminiscent glow lingers in the air around the Kennedys. The dynastys founding patriarch, Joseph, Sr., was, in ORourkes words, a priapic, stock-jobbing, isolationist, defeatist, Hitler-appeasing anti-Semite, who was recalled from his absurd posting as ambassador to Great Britain and resigned in disgrace in 1941
admin | December 5, 2020
Leading figures in progressive Zionism in the UK have warned of grave challenges in putting a left-of-centre case for Israel while there are so few Labour members of Knesset and the government was increasingly right-wing. But, in discussion at the JLM conference on Sunday, Hannah Weisfeld, director of Yachad
admin | December 5, 2020
Only 23 when executed in German-occupied Hungary, anti-Nazi partisan is a national icon The full archival collection of Hannah Senesh, the iconic Jewish, Israeli war heroine and poet slain after parachuting into Nazi-occupied Europe near the end of World War II, has come to its final home at the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem. Senesh, who was 23 years old when executed by a firing squad in a Budapest prison, left behind a rich collection including diaries, family correspondence, photographs, notebooks and two notes found in her dress following her execution
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