Category Archives: Jewish

Harris and Netanyahu discuss ICC probe and Israel’s COVID vaccination program

REUTERS U.S. opposed to ICC probe of Israel, Harris tells Netanyahu By Jarrett Renshaw, Eric Beech March 4, 2021 Vice President Kamala Harris, in a call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday, reaffirmed U.S. opposition to an International … Continue reading

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“Liberals advocate for immigration policies that are creating a humanitarian disaster, yet show their partisanship by not protesting measures they denounced when Trump was in office”

JNS Why do Jewish groups no longer care about ‘kids in cages’? by Jonathan Tobin March 4, 2021 If there was one cause that united all critics of former President Donald Trump during the past four years, it was their … Continue reading

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“Judges say converts through non-Orthodox denominations in Israel must be considered Jews for citizenship purposes; chief rabbis fume”

JERUSALEM POST Court rules: Recognize Reform, Conservative conversions done in Israel for citizenship by Yonah Jeremy Bob, Jeremy Sharon March 1, 2021 An expanded nine justice panel of the High Court of Justice ruled on Monday to recognize conversions by … Continue reading

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“As Secretary of State, Shultz was the friend and protector of Soviet Jews, and particularly the Jewish Refuseniks sentenced to monstrous, long terms in the gulag”

JUF NEWS Reflections on the passing of George Shultz by Dr Steven B. Nasatir March 2021 On Feb. 6, the world learned that former Secretary of State George P. Shultz had passed away at age 100. Shultz was a U.S. … Continue reading

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“The idea that Americans have a right to question officials who formulate US foreign policy is, under Ben Rhodes’ mindset, simply absurd”

ALGEMEINER Has Ben Rhodes Made the Descent Into Antisemitism? by Dexter Van Zile March 3, 2021 Ben Rhodes, the former national security aide to President Obama — who once boasted that he used non-governmental groups and the media to create an … Continue reading

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“This Land is Your Land” in Yiddish

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“Next month, Israelis will go to the polls to elect a new 120-seat Knesset. It will be Israel’s fourth general election in just under two year”

NEWSWEEK Netanyahu and Israel’s NeverNetanyahu Right by Caroline Glick February 25, 2021 …Despite Netanyahu’s demonization at the hands of the media at home and abroad, his positions are not extreme. They involve standing up for Israel’s rights and interests, developing … Continue reading

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“Manfred Gerstenfeld was a Jewish renaissance man and a prodigious writer who leaves a rich legacy in many different realms. Born in Vienna in 1937, he and his family were forced to flee, and survived the Holocaust by hiding in a small apartment in Amsterdam”

JERUSALEM POST Remembering Manfred Gerstenfeld – Jewish renaissance man by Gerald M Steinberg February 25, 2021 …In the past two decades, Gerstenfeld became a leading expert on antisemitism – particularly the European resurgence, and warning of the “new” manifestations such … Continue reading

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“Contrary to Stanisław Żaryn’s excuses, no reputable historian believes that ‘the Polish nation’ was responsible for Nazi German crimes in Poland. Which is why the Polish government should leave the writing of history to historians”

TABLET MAG The Polish Government’s Holocaust ‘Truth Campaign’ Is a Weird Mix of Authoritarianism, Ignorance, and Injured Pride by Havi Dreifuss February 25, 2021 …[Poland’s] new law deputized the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN)—a central institution with state-sponsored prosecution powers—to … Continue reading

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#SNL helps promote libel that Israel withholds vaccine from #Palestinians

BREITBART ‘Saturday Night Live‘ Blasted for Antisemitic Joke About Israel and Coronavirus Vaccines by Joel B. Pollak February 21, 2021 Saturday Night Live is being criticized for a joke by Michael Che during the show’s most recent broadcast that suggested … Continue reading

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