Category Archives: Jewish

“So the good news, at the end of a dramatic week of twists and turns that would make Shakespeare blush, is that your Jewish News is back”

TIMES OF ISRAEL Jewish News is back, more energised and ambitious than ever by Richard Ferrer April 22, 2022 If like me, your sense of time is all over the place at the moment (is it April or May?), you’ll … Continue reading

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“Biden has brought into the mix two Jewish Democratic groups that otherwise spent much of the primary season reviling one another”

JWEEKLY These are Biden’s Jews by Ron Kampeas and Laura E. Adkins April 24, 2020 But there are new Jewish kids on the Biden block, too. They earned their Democratic cred without having come up through the traditional pro-Israel channels, … Continue reading

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“At the rate the radical left is taking over major Jewish organizations, we can assume that within five years there will be a steep rise in the number of American Jewish groups that advocate on behalf of BDS”

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) American Jewry’s Organizational Crack-Up by Caroline Glick April 24, 2020 …Lob’s selection came as a complete surprise to Conference insiders. She beat out two candidates with far more organizational experience and centrist credentials. But … Continue reading

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“Leibovitz has no real doubts that his beloved Marvel heroes are born of a particularly unique sensibility to Jewish immigrant parents from Europe”

JEWISH INSIDER The man, the myth, the Jewish comic book legend by Amy Spiro April 23, 2020 …The resulting book, Stan Lee: A Life in Comics, is the latest entry in Yale University Press’s “Jewish Lives” series. But don’t crack … Continue reading

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Gantz-Netanyahu deal ends 17-month political crisis; Gantz: “We prevented a fourth election”

JERUSALEM POST The deal is done: Netanyahu, Gantz ink coalition pact by Gil Hoffman April 21, 2020 Israel will soon have a new coalition government after an agreement was signed on Monday evening between Likud and Blue and White, putting … Continue reading

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“Tel Aviv University report, released every year before Holocaust Remembrance Day, shows an 18% spike in attacks against Jews last year, warning that the pandemic has threatened to amp up incitement even more”

YNET NEWS Experts: Coronvirus brings spike in anti-Semitic sentiments by Associated Press April 20, 2020 …“Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a significant rise in accusations that Jews, as individuals and as a collective, are behind … Continue reading

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“Initially, IKEA’s Ingvar Kamprad was happy to cooperate with Elisabeth Åsbrink’s book on his Jewish friend. Then she found a 1943 file showing he’d been a Swedish Nazi party member”

TIMES OF ISRAEL Letters reveal curious tie between Jewish refugee and Nazi-admiring IKEA founder by Renee Ghert-Zand April 20, 2020 A decade ago, Swedish investigative journalist and author Elisabeth Åsbrink was given an IKEA box containing more than 500 German-language … Continue reading

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Yom Hashoah 2020

JNS Virtual Holocaust memorial plaques in thousands to be projected on Birkenau gates April 21, 2020 Although the 2020 March of the Living will not take place on Holocaust Memorial Day due to the coronavirus pandemic, an estimated 10,000 people … Continue reading

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Thomas Friedman “seldom missed an opportunity to highlight criticism of the Jewish state, especially from Israelis who insisted that its “occupation” was immoral”

JNS Thomas Friedman’s political fantasy by Jerold S. Auerbach April 17, 2020 In a recent New York Times column (April 7), Thomas Friedman listed his preferred choices for various posts in a Joe Biden administration. Among those serving in his fantasy … Continue reading

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A battle to acquire failing UK Jewish newspapers

TIMES OF ISRAEL Rival bids submitted for UK’s two bankrupt Jewish newspapers by Staff April 17, 2020 Rival bids have been submitted for Britain’s two major Jewish publications — the Jewish Chronicle and the Jewish News — which announced last … Continue reading

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