Jewish News Syndicate – jns.org
In a vote of 64-44, the Israeli Knesset on Monday night approved in its first reading a bill to disband the legislature.
Second and third readings will likely be held Wednesday night if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fails to secure a coalition by then. Only if the bill is approved in all three readings can new elections be held.
https://www.jns.org/knesset-approves-first-reading-of-bill-to-dissolve-government/
By: Marcy Oster – Jewish Telegraphic Agency; jta.org
Police in Brooklyn are investigating two unprovoked attacks on visibly Jewish men in the majority Hasidic neighborhood of Williamsburg.
By: Times of Israel Staff – timesofisrael.com
Hundreds of thousands of Israelis were flocking to beaches and parks, lighting grills, waving flags and craning their necks for a glimpse of Israel’s fighter jets to mark the country’s 71th Independence Day on Thursday.
After a night of fireworks, concerts, parties and an emotional crossover from Memorial Day to Independence Day, most Israelis were spending the day, a national holiday, celebrating the country’s birthday.
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/