Category Archives: The Jerusalem Post / JPost.com

Grapevine June 30, 2021: Happy Birthday BG!!!

Approximately a year ago the three children of Barbara Goldstein, Shira in Beersheba, Devra Miller in New York and Danny in California, discussed how to celebrate their mother’s 80th birthday. Read more » »

Danny Sanderson awarded B’nai B’rith prize for Israel-Diaspora relations

The citation is set to be presented at a special Hebrew-language event on July 1 at 7: 00 p.m. at the Konrad Adenauer Conference Center in Jerusalem’s Mishkenot Sha’ananim neighborhood. Read more » »

Israeli Ambassador to the US, UN launches initiative to fight antisemitis

Israel’s Ambassador to the United States and the UN Gilad Erdan held a meeting last Friday with various heads of Jewish organizations in order to formulate a plan to combat antisemitism within the UN and beyond.The meeting was scheduled as a result of Israel’s military operation in Gaza and the increase in antisemitc attacks around the world. Read more » »

Hate crime complaint against pro-Palestinian protesters in Winnipeg

The protest, held on May 15, four days after the outbreak in violence, attracted hundreds who were championing the Palestinian cause while condemning Israel in front of the Manitoba Legislature. Pro-Palestinian demonstrators attend a protest following a flare-up of Israeli-Palestinian violence, in London, Britain May 22, 2021. Read more » »

Importance of fighting the ‘Zionism is racism’ smear

Remarkably few people know that the United Nations – with nearly 60 Muslim and Arab member states – condemns Israel more than it does all other countries combined.The only state routinely criticized by the Commission on the Status of Women? Israel. The only state attacked by the World Health Assembly? Israel. Read more » »

Rise in antisemitism dispels the myth of American Jewish exceptionalism

I’m not at all surprised.I’m not at all surprised at the savagery we are seeing on the streets, and some halls of power, in countries generally seen to be enlightened, civilized. “Like us.”I have watched for decades as American Jews have not only proclaimed but actually seemed to believe in the myth of their “exceptionalism” in Jewish history. Read more » »

Israel’s Walt Disney: The story and legacy of Joseph Bau

Joseph Bau was born in Krakow in 1920. By his teen years, he was a published cartoonist who, throughout his life, used his talents to save hundreds of Jewish lives and for the benefit of the Jewish state. He was a quintessential part of Israel’s early film and animation industry, becoming known as “the Israeli Walt Disney. Read more » »

Ceremony honors Japanese diplomat who saved thousands from Holocaust

Chiune Sugihara, known affectionately as the „Japanese Schindler,” was honored today at a digital ceremony on Monday ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Read more » »

Bulgarian court hands down life imprisonment for Hezbollah terrorists

The conviction leaves the families of the victims and Israel partially unsatisfied because Hezbollah itself was not formally indicted or convicted. Read more » »