Courtesy of Wikipedia Wendy Sherman (June 7, 1949) is an American diplomat who served as the United States deputy secretary of state from April 2021 to July 2023. She was a professor of the practice of public leadership and director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School, a senior counselor at Albright Stonebridge Group, and a senior […]
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Why didn’t I become a socialist? Soviet socialism destroyed my family and I could not love it. But it turned out that I disliked socialism for the same reason I did not become a musician: my aunt’s piano also left Kiev. Instead of using my absolute musical ear for music, I had to use it to listen to the atonal music of wailing, to the unmelodic moans and gloomy chords of the lamentations of the Soviet Jews. [Alex Gordon]
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Published by AFP Washington (AFP) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address lawmakers in the US Congress on July 24, Republican party leaders announced Thursday. The visit comes amid mounting pressure for the US ally and Hamas militants to agree to a permanent ceasefire as Israel faces growing diplomatic isolation over the rising death
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In 1942, when Alfred was 8 and Herbert was 5, their parents arranged for the boys to be sent to a summer camp operated by a Jewish rescue organization. Much to the boys’ distress, their safety-minded parents had them stay much longer than the summer. While they were gone, their father, who had been helping the French Resistance, was arrested by the Vichy government. [Donald H. Harrison]
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This week’s update includes the devastating news that four more hostages have died, including Amiram Cooper (85), whose family resides in San Diego. We extend our deepest condolences to Rotem and Dahlia Cooper and their family, and to all the families affected by this tragedy. [Press Release]
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Published by Benzinga Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) launched an airstrike on a Gaza school Thursday, stating that the attack targeted up to 30 Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters. However, a Hamas official reported that 40 people, including women and children, sheltering at a UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) site, were killed. A CNN analysis
Published by ANI News New Delhi [India], June 6 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated Mexico’s first President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum on Thursday, and said that it is a momentous occassion for the country’s people. In a post on X, PM Modi wrote, “Congratulations to @Claudiashein, Mexico’s first woman President-elect! This is a momentous occasion for
Published by The Daily Caller Jewish students filed a lawsuit against the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and the regents of the University of California system Wednesday over the administration’s alleged lack of effort to shut down a pro-Palestinian encampment that created a “Jew Exclusion Zone.” In April, students protesting the school’s ties to
In her meticulously researched and documented (80 pages of notes and references), D-Day Girls, journalist and bestselling author Sarah Rose follows a handful of these heroines through thick and thin; trough success and failure; through romances, double agents and double-crossings; through capture, imprisonment, interrogation, torture, unspeakable atrocities, sickness and even death for some. [Dorian de Wind]
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Did they abandon their dedication to the Palestinian cause because of a dominant police operation? Didn’t they have the courage to challenge a massive appearance of Jews and a resolute police force? [Bruce S. Ticker]
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Published by DPA Thousands of Israeli nationalists marched through Palestinian neighbourhoods in Jerusalem on Wednesday, provoking tense scenes and confrontations with police. The annual Flag March celebrates Israel’s capture of East Jerusalem in the Six-Day War of 1967. Critics accuse organizers of deliberately antagonizing the divided city’s Palestinian community, with tensions especially high this year
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Published by Benzinga On Wednesday, a drone attack by Hezbollah from Lebanon resulted in injuries to at least 10 individuals in northern Israel, according to Israeli authorities, raising tensions about a potential counterattack from Tel Aviv. Recent cross-border strikes have caused large fires in Israel’s northern regions, leading the Israeli military to warn of potential
Calling ourselves 2nd generation Holocaust prolongs the need to remember the Shoah. Yes, we are not the survivors, but hopefully we who are alive because they survived the Shoah, will use the term to keep the memory of the HOLOCAUST alive. from one generation to another. [Rabbi Dr. Bernhard Rosenberg]
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An innovative, new method that with high accuracy predicts cancer cell behavior has been developed by researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. [Press Release]
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