Shlomo Rechnitz: Challenging The Definition of Philanthropy

Published by Newstrail COVID-19 has wreaked devastating consequences and havoc on people across the globe. The magnitude of the suffering has been extraordinary in scope; and even with the helpful collaboration of public sector forces, the sole assistance of the government has proven inadequate. But we’ve seen amazing expressions of humanity unleashed by private individuals

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USA

Merkel postpones Israel visit over Afghanistan pullout

Published by Al-Araby German Chancellor Angela Merkel has postponed a planned trip to Israel this weekend over final evacuation efforts from Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover, her spokesman Steffen Seibert said Thursday. “The chancellor’s trip to Israel planned for August 28-30 has been cancelled in coordination with the Israeli prime minister due to current developments

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International, Middle East

Biden clears agenda to focus on Afghan airport attack

Published by AFP Washington (AFP) – President Joe Biden is being briefed on the bloody attack against Kabul’s airport, the White House said Thursday, delaying a planned meeting with Israel’s visiting prime minister and canceling another event. “The president has been briefed and he is in the Situation Room,” an official told AFP on condition

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International, Middle East, USA

Zoë Kravitz’s Divorce From Karl Glusman Finalized As Actress’ Romance With Channing Tatum Appears To Heat Up

Published by OK Magazine It’s official. Zoë Kravitzis now divorced from Karl Glusmanafter less than two years of marriage. The Big Little Lies star’s divorce from Glusman was filed back in December 2020 before being entered into records on Tuesday, August 24, according to documents obtained by Us Weekly. The former pair secretly tied the

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Jewish Celebrities

OpEd: Restoring American Leadership in the World

In the face of the ongoing debacle in Kabul and in Afghan provinces, Americans’ first priority should be to pray for our soldiers and our allies, and check out the veterans operating #DigitalDunkirk. Our soldiers are proving, once again, that they are the best among us. Then, it’s time to adopt a little bit of realism about the world. [Shoshana Bryen]

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International, Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USA

OpEd: West Must Stand Up to Totalitarian Governments

I believe that Western governments’ strategy of restraint and “fairness” when dealing with Iran, Russia, etcetera, are like taking a knife to a gun fight. That strategy doesn’t work with non-democratic countries, which are unconcerned with the welfare of their citizens. For them, it’s all about the mission of the ruling class. Iran, Russia, China, North Korea – none of them respect restraint or fairness. That type of soft policy only engenders a loss of respect for those countries that espouse it. [Steve Kramer]

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International, Middle East, Steve Kramer, USA

Novel Relates Tangled Lives of Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivor, Neo-Nazi

“Games We Played” is about people, specifically the two main characters, who have psychological and sexual hangups and issues which complicate their lives, as well as those of the people around them. The chapters are written from the viewpoints of the two main characters, Rachel, now an actress in the New York area, and Stephen, a rather mixed-up young man and military drop-out, living in California. As children Rachel and Stephen lived near one another and played together, though their games sometimes involved some kind of sexual element. In addition, Stephen had been indoctrinated with neo-Nazi ideology by his grandfather, with whom Stephen and his mother lived, and this penetrated their childhood games. Rachel had what was seemingly a normal family, with a psychiatrist father and home-maker mother. [Dorothea Shefer-Vanson]

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Dorothea Shefer-Vanson

Murder of Yeshiva Student Highlights Need for Gun Control

When Shmuel Silverberg, 18, was shot outside Yeshiva Toras Chaim in Denver’s West Colfax neighborhood on Tuesday, Aug. 17, his assailants were not satisfied. Silverberg ran away from them, and they chased him just inside the school where fellow students tried to perform CPR on him. Silverberg, who was studying at the religious school as a post-high school student from Cleveland, was rushed to the hospital, where he died, according to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. [Bruce S. Ticker]

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Bruce Ticker, USA

Haftorah Reading for August 28, 2021

 These strong poetic lines extracted from the Book of Isaiah are attributed to Isaiah III, again a composite figure. They were written in Judea, to coincide in setting to the era of post-return and the rebuilding of an early incomplete version of the second Temple, c. 480-450 BCE. The writer(s) expresses these verses under a repeated imagery of light. We don’t know actually when they were written/edited, which might have been years later. [Irv Jacobs, M.D.]

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Irv Jacobs, MD, Jewish Religion

Michael Kesler, Holocaust Survivor and Author

Michael Kesler, Ph.D, died August 23, 2021 from advanced Parkinsons disease at the age of 97, surrounded by family at his home in East Brunswick, NJ. Born in Dubno, Poland (now Ukraine), Michael and his sister Luba fled their family home to escape the Nazis. They wandered through 3,000 miles to Uzbekistan. During four years, they suffered yet persevered in their quest to survive. [Kesler Family]

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Monica Lewinsky Recounts Fallout From Bill Clinton Affair: ‘Ten Years On, I Still Couldn’t Get A Job’

Published by OK Magazine Monica Lewinsky is reflecting on the fallout after her bombshell affair with former President Bill Clinton was exposed. The brunette was only 22-years-old when her whole world changed after she entered into an affair with the then-most powerful man in the world. “You go to bed one night a private person,

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Jewish Celebrities

Pandemic Postcard Messages, 1918-1920

The Jewish Welfare Board was created on April 9, 1917, three days after the U.S. declared war on Germany. It wanted to provide services to Jewish troops similar to what Catholic servicemen received from the Knights of Columbus and Protestants from the YMCA. In 1919, after the war was over, the JWB printed tens of thousands of these reassuring cards depicting a grinning doughboy and distributed them to servicemen to send to family and friends. [Oliver B. Pollak, Ph.D]

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Jewish History, Lifestyles, Oliver Pollak, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA