Israel Starts Coronavirus Vaccinations for Children Ages 5-11

Published by DPA Israel has begun vaccinating children aged 5 to 11 against the coronavirus. Although the vaccination campaign officially started on Tuesday, some children were administered the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine in some locations the day before. Coronavirus commissioner Salman Sarka spoke of a “celebration for children and parents who can now protect their children,” according […]

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Middle East

Genesis Prize Foundation Honors Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks Posthumously

The Genesis Prize Foundation honored the late Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks with the Genesis Lifetime Achievement Award.  The award recognizes Lord Sacks for his extraordinary role in inspiring the next generation of Jews, and his illustrious life-long work as a teacher of Jewish values and an advocate of inter-religious and inter-cultural dialogue. [Genesis Prize Foundation News Release]

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International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Middle East

Bennett: Israel Must Change Course on Iran, Regardless of Vienna Talks

(JNS) Israel must “recalibrate” its strategy with regard to Iran, and will not be obligated by a U.S. return to the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on Tuesday. In a speech delivered at Reichman University for the Institute for Policy and Strategy’s Security and Policy Conference, Bennett said that while

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International, Middle East

Parashat Vayeishev: Predictable Unpredictability

You’ve heard it many times, “Man plans, G-d laughs.” Or perhaps, like me, you’ve heard this version, “Mentsch tracht, Gott lacht.” I like “Man thinks, G-d Winks.” Regardless, like all of us who prefer to live without being mutchet or tcheppeht, (pressured or bothered), Jacob found that life has its challenges and disappointments. Just when we think all is well in our family, in our career, in our lives, G-d shows us that He has another lesson for us to learn. It seems the only thing predictable about life is how unpredictable it can be. [Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D]

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Jewish Religion, Michael Mantell

After-Effects of Children Witnessing War

Yalom’s goal was “to understand the effects of…wartime experience on children living in Europe and the United States.” Her six friends provided intimate vignettes of terror, trauma, aerial bombing, bomb shelters, and hunger. They endured and became accomplished, but not unscarred, They are likely “the last individuals who can remember World War II” and they will soon “vanish.” She explored the concept of witnesses in her 2015 work, Compelled to Witness, Women Memoirs of the French Revolution. [Oliver Pollak

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Oliver Pollak

Jason Reitman admits that making Ghostbusters: Afterlife has been a ‘slow boil’

Published by BANG Showbiz English Jason Reitman admits that making ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’ has been a “slow boil”. The 44-year-old director has helmed the latest movie in the supernatural comedy series and admits that he first came up with the concept several years ago, before he realised that it could explore the legacy of Dr. Egon

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Jewish Celebrities

Andrew Garfield’s life changed dramatically after his mother’s death

Published by BANG Showbiz English Andrew Garfield’s life has changed completely since the death of his mother. The 38-year-old star tragically lost his mother Lynn to pancreatic cancer in 2019 and he revealed that her passing has totally “rearranged his psyche” and altered every aspect of his life. Reflecting on his career since playing Spider-Man,

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Jewish Celebrities

Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen freed after 3-year confinement

Published by Reuters By Carlo Allegri NEW YORK (Reuters) – Michael Cohen, the onetime personal lawyer and fixer for former U.S. President Donald Trump, walked out of federal court a free man on Monday at the end of his three-year sentence for campaign finance violations and other crimes. Cohen, 55, told reporters outside the U.S.

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Shanda File

Richard Johnson: Alan Dershowitz to depose ex-Victoria’s Secret CEO in Epstein case

Published by New York Daily News NEW YORK — Legal eagle Alan Dershowitz has won the right to depose Leslie Wexner of Victoria’s Secret fame. Dershowitz, a Harvard Law School professor, has been fighting the allegation of Virginia Giuffre that he, along with Prince Andrew, had sex with young women provided by the late Jeffrey

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Jewish Celebrities

A Rabbi’s Questions about Adam and Eve

The very introduction to the Bible is obscure. We would have expected the introduction to tell us why God created the world and what God expects from humans, a problem that bothered the famous Bible commentator Rashi (1040-1105), but instead chapters 1 and 2 and other parts of the Bible are obscure, as can be seen in the following items. The obscurities are apparently purposely opaque to prompt us to think, and by thinking improve ourselves and society. [Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin]

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Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish Religion