International

Yad Vashem seeks names of Holocaust victims

JERUSALEM (Press Release) — As Israel marks Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day, Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, calls on the public to submit the names of family members and friends who were murdered during the Holocaust, and to provide survivor testimony about their experiences from this period. To date, Yad Vashem’s Shoah Victims’ […]

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International, Jewish History, Middle East

Who will tell their stories? “We will!” students answer

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – One of the nightmarish questions we Jews ask ourselves is “After all the Holocaust survivors have passed on, who will tell their stories?” Following a Havdalah service on Saturday night at Tifereth Israel Synagogue, a group of pre-teens and teens affirmed in unison: “When they are gone, we

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, San Diego County, USA

Pope Francis compares detention centres for refugees to Nazi camps

Rome (dpa) – Europe is confining refugees in detention centres that resemble Nazi concentration camps, and is committing “suicide” as its seals its borders against immigration, Pope Francis said Saturday. Francis led a special service on Tiber Island in central Rome, called to commemorate modern-day Christian martyrs. In his homily, he veered off his scripted

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International

American Airlines attendant makes mother cry, challenges man to hit him

DALLAS — American Airlines grounded a flight attendant duty after a video posted to Facebook showed an escalating confrontation with passengers Friday night on a flight from San Francisco to Dallas. The video, posted by passenger Surain Adyanthaya, shows a woman passenger holding a baby and crying near the plane’s entrance. According to Adyanthaya’s post,

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USA

After eluding US for a decade in Haiti, Guy Philippe plans to plead guilty in Miami

Guy Philippe has apparently run out of moves in his quest to outfox the U.S. government. The former Haitian national police commander who led a revolt against his nation’s president in 2004 and was elected to the Senate last year, has agreed to plead guilty on Monday to a drug-related charge, according to a notice

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International, USA

Cynically led, and out of electricity, Gaza is close to breaking point again

Hamas is funneling all available resources into its military infrastructure to fight Israel, complaining that Abbas won’t pay for its fuel, and milking everything it can from Gazans. It won’t end well By Avi Issacharoff “As usual, the situation is shit,” says A., a resident of the Gaza Strip. “It is so bad here that

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Middle East

Anti-Israel Sharia advocate to give CUNY commencement speech

A radical left-wing activist and advocate for Sharia law in the United States has been selected as his year”s commencement speaker at a New York City college. Linda Sarsour, 37, who helped organize the Women”s March in Washington in January and was arrested protesting outside of Trump Hotel in New York, was tapped by the

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Why everyone should observe Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day

As a descendant of Armenian Genocide survivors, April 24 is a day of great importance to me. Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day is a time when people from around the world recognize and mourn the more than 1.5 million Armenians who were savagely and systematically exterminated at the hands of the Young Turks during World War

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International, Jewish History

Orthodox Jewish man holds up flight for more than an hour over the plane’s TV screens

A flight from Kiev to Israel Thursday was delayed for over an hour while an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man complained about a movie that was being shown on the plane’s TV screens and refused to take his seat until the screens were shut off. “Our departure from Kiev tonight was delayed by an hour when an

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International, Middle East, Travel and Food