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…
By Danielle Roth-Avneri , Yehuda Shlezinger, Israel Hayom— Two hours of talks to finalize a deal for a unity government fell apart Monday morning after Blue and White leader Benny Gantz walked out of the meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. It appears that the talks came up against a brick wall over the Judges…
By Bassam Tawil, Gatestone Institute— Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has not been seen in public since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic in the region last month. His absence, however, has not stopped Abbas from doing what he does best: praising and glorifying Palestinians who kill Jews. On April 16, Palestinians marked the anniversary…
By Shelley Neese— When I lived in Arizona I had a Messianic pastor who led an otherwise evangelical congregation. He was raised in a religious Jewish home and found Jesus, his Messiah, right before his Bar Mitzvah. He was kicked out of his home when he told his parents about his newfound faith and actually…