Argentine Newspaper First Target of Polish Holocaust Law
TEL AVIV – An Argentinian newspaper has become the first victim of Poland’s contentious Holocaust legislation, which took effect on Thursday despite pressure from Israel.
Rabbi Marvin Hier
U.S. State Department Report: Poles Treated Jews As Badly As Nazis During German Occupation
TEL AVIV – A declassified 1946 State Department report documents there was evidence of Poles having “persecuted the Jews as vigorously as did the Germans during the occupation” from 1939 to 1945, and further testifies to widespread antisemitism in the
Report: Israel, Bahrain Could Announce Normalized Ties By Next Year
TEL AVIV – The normalization of diplomatic relations between Bahrain and Israel may be announced in the near future, Bahraini and Western officials were quoted as saying over the weekend.
WATCH: Bahrain King Slams Arab Boycott, Says Citizens Free to Visit Israel
TEL AVIV – In a first, Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa al Khalifa slammed the Arab boycott of Israel and said he encourages his subjects to visit the Jewish state.
Inauguration Rabbi Says Mention of Jerusalem ‘Absolutely Intentional’
The first ever Orthodox rabbi to recite a benediction at a US presidential inauguration said that his quoting a Psalm about the longing of the Jewish people to return to Jerusalem was “absolutely intentional.”
In Inaugural Benediction, Rabbi Cites Judaism’s Ties to Jerusalem
The first Orthodox rabbi to ever give a benediction at an American president’s inauguration chose to recite a psalm stressing Judaism’s bond with the city Jerusalem.
California’s Wiesenthal Center Condemns Iran Deal
LOS ANGELES, California — Two head rabbis at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles issued a joint statement condemning the nuclear accord between Iran and the P5+1, invoking history to remind Western leaders that they are repeating the mistakes of the past in trusting the tyrannical Iranian regime.
