DC Report By Douglas Bloomfield Make no mistake.  It was just a campaign photo-op disguised as an exercise of presidential power by an unhinged man drunk with power and terrified that voters will reject him in November. Campaign Event On Monday, June 1, with cities in flames, Donald Trump ordered federal troops to fire rubber bullets, flash bangs and tear […]

By BEN SALES NEW YORK CITY (JTA) – Every summer, tens of thousands of American Jewish kids leave their homes, board buses and planes, and spend a month or two together on a campground in the middle of nowhere. They might not go to synagogue at all during the rest of the year, but on Friday nights, they and their […]

By JONATHAN S. TOBIN (JNS) – The outrageous murder in Minneapolis of George Floyd, a 46-year-old African-American man, by local police is a crime that cannot be tolerated or excused. Efforts by extremist agitators to hijack peaceful demonstrations and turn them into violent riots should also be condemned and not falsely rationalized as a form of legitimate protest or part […]

By CNAAN LIPHSHIZ NEW YORK CITY (JTA) – The tables were still covered with open copies of the Book of Esther when Rabbi Yigal Chazan reentered his Milan synagogue a few weeks ago. The Book of Esther is read during Purim, the Jewish holiday that took place more than two months ago. That was just when Beit Menachem, along with […]

The philanthropic legacy of the late community leader Jane Golub, was noted at Jewish National Fund-USA’s (JNF-USA) recent local 6th annual Breakfast for Israel. Unlike previous years, this year’s breakfast was a virtual affair as 150 local community members gathered on the Zoom conferencing platform to celebrate their connections to Israel. Israel’s Consul General to New York Ambassador Dani Dayan […]

(JNS) – Iranian hackers tried to trick Israeli computers into raising the chlorine content in the country’s water supply to dangerous levels, the Financial Times reported on Sunday, May 31. The report refers to the April 24 cyber attack on an Israeli pumping station, widely attributed to the regime in Tehran. Sophisticated Attack According to the Financial Times, Israeli and foreign intelligence officials […]

By ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN (Israel21c via JNS) – About 120 research groups from various countries are racing to develop vaccines for the SARS-CoV-2 virus (COVID-19). Several formulations have already advanced to human safety trials. Although the frontrunners in this race are American, British, Chinese, Japanese and German, Israel also has a few contenders. However, vaccine development, like drug development, is […]

By DEBRA NUSSBAUM COHEN NEW YORK CITY (JTA) – Dr. Vivian Fischer spent five hours Saturday, May 30,  walking toward Minneapolis’s devastation from her home in a suburb immediately outside the city. The family physician put on gray scrubs, her stethoscope, a mask and gloves, filled a backpack with whatever she had at home — extra masks, medical gloves, asthma […]

By PHILISSA CRAMER NEW YORK CITY (JTA) – Jewish groups are expressing outrage over the death of George Floyd, a black man killed by a Minneapolis police officer who has subsequently been charged with second-degree murder, and solidarity with the sweeping national protests that have followed. Here are excerpts from some of the statements: Truah, a social justice organization of […]

by Gary C. Gambill May 31, 2020 Adi Schwartz, an Israeli journalist and coauthor (with former Israeli Knesset member Einat Wilf) of the new book The War of Return, spoke to participants in a May 4 Middle East Forum webinar (video) about the centrality of the refugee issue in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. For many years, Schwartz explained, efforts to broker peace between […]