By: Victor Rosenthal; Jewish News Syndicate – jns.org
Israel has the capability to completely destroy Hamas. But in countless minor confrontations and several operations that most people call “wars,” it has not done so. Why?
https://www.jns.org/opinion/how-to-subdue-our-gazan-cousins/
By: Jewish News Syndicate – jns.org
The ceremony included the lighting of six torches, each one honoring a different group of Holocaust heroes.
On Holocaust Memorial Day (Yom Hashoah) on May 2, under the theme “Say No to Anti-Semitism,” more than 10,000 Jewish and non-Jewish youth from 40 different countries, together with dozens of Holocaust survivors and dignitaries from around the world, participated in the 31st annual International March of the Living to pay tribute to all victims of the Holocaust and call for an end to anti-Semitism.
By: Emily Jones – CBN News; cbn.com
A lone gunman entered the Chabad of Poway Synagogue in San Diego Saturday and opened fire on Jews celebrating the last day of Passover. He killed one woman and wounded several others.
For one family, this was not their first encounter with terrorism. The Dahan family left their neighborhood on Israel’s Gaza border years ago in hopes of finding a safer life in America. But this time, instead of rockets raining down, it was bullets.
By: Raymond Ibrahim – raymondibrahim.com
Today, April 24, marks the “Great Crime,” that is, the genocide of Christians—mostly Armenians but also Assyrians and Greeks—that took place under the Islamic Ottoman Empire, throughout World War I. Then, in an attempt to wipe out as many Christians as possible, the Turks massacred approximately 1.5 million Armenians, 300,000 Assyrians, and 750,000 Greeks.
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Middlebury, Vt. — A chemistry professor whose exam question asked students to calculate the lethal dose of a poisonous gas used in Nazi gas chambers during the Holocaust has taken a leave of absence, Middlebury College said. The Vermont liberal arts college said that it’s investigating under the terms of its faculty misconduct policy.
By: Times of Israel Staff – timesofisrael.com
https://www.timesofisrael.com/tens-of-thousands-gather-at-western-wall-for-priestly-blessing/
By: Joan Nathan; New York Times-nytimes.com
And the family’s personal recipe, so you can make it yourself.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/08/dining/golds-horseradish-recipe.html
By: Ilanit Chernick; Jerusalem Post – jpost.com
On April 19, 1943, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising broke out, which was on the eve of the Jewish festival of Passover. German troops stormed the ghetto, intent on completing the deportation process within three days, yet were ambushed by Jewish rebels. This year, close to eight decades later, families of ghetto survivors will celebrate the Jewish festival of redemption together.
By: Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman; The Jerusalem Post – jpost.com
https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Temple-Mount-Sifting-Project-to-relaunch-for-Jerusalem-Day-586012
By: Emily Jones; CBN News – cbn.com
JERUSALEM, Israel – Airbnb has reversed its decision to ban home listings in Israeli settlement communities in historic Judea and Samaria, also known as the West Bank.
Airbnb announced the policy change after a court settlement Monday between the hospitality service and several American Jewish plaintiffs who sued the company.
Last November, the company vowed to “remove listings in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank that are at the core of the dispute between Israelis and Palestinians.”