For the JC Sept 10 2020 “Oh, yes”, says Simon Eder, casually, “we had a donation of a sefer Torah from a sheikh who owned one of the big Dubai property companies. He wanted to have his name on the cover of the Torah, so I think a separate cover was made, just in case”. […]
For the JC September 10 2020 Avram Woidislawsky is a survivor in every sense. The Philadelphia resident, who was born in 1940 in the Siberian mountains region, spent the Holocaust as a little boy moving from town to town in southern Russia with his parents. This week he and his family are looking forward to […]
For the JC September 4 2020 When Los Angeles lawyer Michael Leventhal saw a picture of an 11-year-old girl on the front page of the New York Times in 2017, he couldn’t believe it. That was his mother, Beba Epstein, who had died in 2012, a Holocaust survivor about whose early life he knew very […]
For the JC September 11 2020 “Oh, yes”, says Simon Eder, casually, “we had a donation of a sefer Torah from a sheikh who owned one of the big Dubai property companies. He wanted to have his name on the cover of the Torah, so I think a separate cover was made, just in case”. […]
For the Times of Israel August 21 2020 LONDON — A post-Brexit row, described as “a comedy of errors,” has broken out between the European Union and Britain over a review of Palestinian school textbooks that was commissioned before Britain left the EU on January 31, 2020. Israel-based education watchdog IMPACT-se says that preliminary reviews […]
For the Times of Israel August 20 2020 A claim about the closure of London University’s Hebrew Year Abroad programme made by two British groups on opposite sides of the Zionist question has been summarily dismissed. Claims from both pro-Israel activists and supporters of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement that London University had […]
For the JC August 2020 In an interview that made headlines around the world, Axios national political reporter Jonathan Swan took US President Donald Trump to task last week about his administration’s failure to tackle the Covid pandemic properly. He constantly picked the president up on every unsubstantiated claim: when Mr Trump said “people say…”, […]
For the JN July 2020 A horrifying description of the sophisticated use of technology, used by the Chinese to abuse and exploit its Uyghur minority, has been given by the UK-based spokesperson for the World Uyghur Congress, Rahima Mahmut. Speaking at a specially convened panel called Chilling Echoes, co-hosted by the Jewish News and the […]
For the JC July 2020 Italy is finally to recognise the Jewish uncle of a British man as one of the Ardeantine massacre victims after years of futile campaigning by the family was brought to an end by local detective work and a scientific breakthrough. The 1944 shooting of 335 civilians, personally authorised by Hitler, […]
For the JC July 31 2020 The lecturer who was fired by Southampton Solent University for saying that Jewish people were among the cleverest in the world has said that he was “marched out in front of my students like a thief” by three women from the university’s HR department. Stephen Lamonby also revealed that […]