By Benjamin Kerstein, Algemeiner— The news that a Danish Lutheran group had rewritten the Bible in order to omit the word “Israel” has been greeted by outrage, with critics calling it a “surreal revision” and a gift to “Jew-haters and Israel-bashers.” The Danish Bible Society’s translation of the New Testament refrains from using the word…
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz, Breaking Israel News— Rather than congratulate Israel on forming a unity government after three elections, many governments responded by warning the new alliance against annexing Biblical Judea and Samaria thereby allowing Jews to fulfill prophecy by returning to the homeland promised to them by their covenant with God. Netanyahu and Gantz,…
By Jonathan S. Tobin, Jewish News Syndicate— In principle, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s answer to a question about Israel’s new coalition government seems unexceptionable. The agreement signed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz allows for a vote in the upcoming months about extending Israeli sovereignty to…
By Lahav Harkov, Jerusalem Post— France threatened to change the nature of its ties with Israel, should the nascent government annex parts of the West Bank, in Ambassador to the UN Nicolas de Rivière’s remarks to the Security Council on Thursday. De Rivière said that annexation “would constitute a blatant violation of international law, which…
By Inna Rogatchi, Times of Israel-— Family Reflections on Yom HaShoah The essay is an excerpt from Inna Rogatchi’s forthcoming book on her personal search into the dramatic saga of her Mahler- Rose-Bujanover family. I grew up with those photos. The photos from distant beautiful fairy-like life: Tuileries Garden, Paris, elegantly dressed woman, her children…
They are both infectious and deadly. April 13, The Jerusalem Post, Cnaan Lipshiz reported that during a televised Easter message, a Catholic Priest in Romania compared Jews to the corona virus. The reference was part of the April 9 message, broadcasted by national television stations, by Father Francisc Dobos, the spokesperson for the Archdiocese of…
By AFP— Movement and travel restrictions in place to contain the coronavirus pandemic have forced this week’s Holocaust Remembrance Day – Yom HaShoah in Hebrew – to be exclusively digital for the first time. In a normal year, symbolic events are organized at various locations, notably with survivors at the sites in Europe where the…
By Shelley Neese— Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel (Yom Hashoah). I am thinking of the survivors who are in their homes this year in quarantine. Normally, Israel has a national ceremony at Yad Vashem as a way of recognizing all those who were lost and those few who remain. This year it will…
By Gill Hoffman, JPost— Israel will soon have a new coalition government after an agreement was signed on Monday evening between Likud and Blue and White, putting an end to a 17-month political stalemate that resulted in three elections. As part of the deal, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has served as caretaker prime minister…
By David Isaac, World Israel News— Against what appeared all odds, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White Chairman Benny Gantz signed an agreement for a unity government. The breakthrough came late Monday shortly before the start of Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. The agreement brings to a close a political crisis that has…