admin | April 20, 2024
There was a significant drop in the number of schools and organisations that took part in Holocaust Memorial Day this year, due to unprecedented challenges engaging people due to October 7, organisers said. Uptake dropped by nearly 20 per cent compared to last year in marking the one day in the British calendar that commemorates victims of the Holocaust and other genocides.
admin | April 20, 2024
It cant be often that a father and son are ordained as a rabbi on the same day, and it may well neverhavehappened before in British Jewry. But on Sunday, Rabbi Yosef Gabai and his son Michael formally entered the rabbinic fold at a ceremony at the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue in Lauderdale Road, west London
admin | April 11, 2024
Times of Israel correspondent Canaan Lidor and Channel 12 reporter Elad Simchayoff are announced as this years winners of Bnai Briths annual journalism award for coverage of the Jewish Diaspora. Lidor, The Times of Israels religion and Diaspora correspondent, receives the Bnai Brith World Center-Jerusalems Award for Journalism Recognizing Excellence in Diaspora Reportage for 2024 in the written media category, Bnai Brith writes in a statement Wednesday. Simchayoff, European correspondent for Channel 12 News, is recognized in the broadcast media category
admin | April 11, 2024
Content warning: this article contains graphic descriptions of rape, gore, and extreme violence.
admin | April 11, 2024
Mehring Yaynclk is pleased to announce the publication of the Turkish edition of The Logic of Zionism: From Nationalist Myth to the Gaza Genocide by David North. We encourage all readers of the World Socialist Web Site in Turkey to buy the book, available here. The volume features four lectures given by David North in response to Israels NATO-backed genocide in Gaza
admin | April 11, 2024
Muswell Hill Synagogue has welcomed the family of their adopted hostage, Michel Nisenbaum. The 59-year-old Brazilian-born Israeli, who was taken captive by Hamas terrorists,was adopted by the shul in February as part of the adopt-a-hostagescheme launched by the Board of Deputies. The community has been sayingprayers for the missing grandfather ever since.
admin | March 30, 2024
Last week, the somber news emerged that Major Daniel Perez, previously reported as a hostage, was tragically no longer among the living. Our hearts go out to his parents, Rabbi Doron Perez, and his wife, Shelly.
admin | March 21, 2024
Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, the chief Sephardi rabbi of Israel, recently threatened a mass exodus of the ultra-Orthodox community if any of its members were conscripted. For those who dont know the inner workings of the Israeli Defense Forces, it mandates two to three years of army service for all 18-year-olds. This has been the reality almost since the birth of the country.
admin | March 21, 2024
Towards the end of the Story of Purim, the Persian king Achashverosh overturned his awful decree against the Jews, sending out messages throughout his kingdom to announce that the Jews had permission to fight back against their enemies. As the Bible reports, and he sent scrolls in the hands of the runners withsusim, the riders of therechesh, theachashtranim, sons of theremachim (Est
admin | March 13, 2024
The vengeful, scheming, genocidal response unleashed since October last year in Gaza, by Israel, has prompted a profoundly intensified global review of the punishing history related to the establishment of the State of Israel and its colonial-settler expansion ever since 1948. An exceptional commentator, Pankaj Mishra, has now contributed an avidly argued, candid extended essay situated within this framework. Entitled, The Shoah after Gaza, it has recently been published in the London Review of Books
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