Why is Ireland one of the most pro-Palestinian countries? – The Week

| March 21, 2024

As the war between Israel and Hamas nears the six-month mark, the global community remains divided between support for Israel and support for the Palestinian people. Muslim-majority Middle Eastern countries continue to back the Palestinians and most Western governments are standing by Israel, but there is an outlying European Union nation that has consistently shown strong support for the Palestinians: Ireland. Nearly 80% of Irish people back the Palestinians and think that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, according to the most recent polling

Zandra Rhodes Among 100 Fashion Figures at Event Against Antisemitism – WWD

| March 21, 2024

SPEAKING OUT, AND EATING: Some 100 British fashion figures including Zandra Rhodes, David Sassoon, Solange Azagury-Partridge, Suzy Menkes, Caroline Burstein and Caroline Rush gathered at the Western Marble Arch Synagogue in London on Saturday morning for a religious and social event hosted by Fashion & Beauty Against Antisemitism. Cohosts Deborah Lyons and Mandi Lennard called it a special fashion kiddush, and after a morning of prayers, guests spilled into the synagogues reception hall to graze on traditional foods, including honey cake, cholent and latkes, fish balls and mini-bagels with chopped herring.

Jewish actor offered to play James Bond in popular franchise – The Jerusalem Post

| March 21, 2024

Agent 007, aka James Bond, may soon be changing his number to 018 believed to represent life and luck in Judaism as British Jewish actor Aaron Taylor-Johnson has reportedly been offered the role of the iconic superspy. According to the UK newspaper The Sun, Taylor-Johnson, best known for his role in the Kick-Ass franchise, has been given the chance to take over from Daniel Craig, who currently plays MI6s most famous fictional agent

Book elevates the concept of broiges to a whole new level – Jewish News

| March 21, 2024

As has often been remarked upon, we Jews love to argue.

12 Remarkable Jewish Women – My Jewish Learning

| March 13, 2024

From biblical times to the present, Jewish women have given hope, meaning and strength to the Jewish community. These twelve remarkable Jewish women have shown extraordinary leadership, changed the course of Jewish practice, offered comfort and hope, and injected creativity into the Jewish world.

Ben Stern, Holocaust survivor who challenged neo-Nazis, dies at 102 – The Washington Post

| March 13, 2024

Ben Stern, a Holocaust survivor who endured years in Nazi concentration camps and two death marches before settling in Skokie, Ill., where he helped rally opposition to a planned neo-Nazi demonstration in the late 1970s that produced one of the most explosive cases in First Amendment law, died Feb. 28 at 102.

British government intensifies school and campus clampdown under guise of combating antisemitism – WSWS

| March 13, 2024

The Conservative governments criminalisation of opposition in Britain to Israels genocidal assault on the Palestinians in Gaza is escalating. Continuing to slander anti-Zionist views as antisemitism, Higher Education Minister Robert Halfon announced in February that an Expert Adviser on antisemitism in Higher Education will be appointed.



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