Category Archives: The Jerusalem Post
Letters to the Editor May 5, 2021: More on Meron
More on MeronRegarding “Nation mourns 45 victims of Meron tragedy” (May 2), the celebration of the Lag Ba’omer in Meron has become a real pagan festival. Read more » »
Post journalist receives B’nai B’rith Lifetime Achievement Award
Greer Fay Cashman, a journalist for The Jerusalem Post, has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the B’nai B’rith World Center-Jerusalem, the center announced on Sunday.Cashman has written for the Post for over 45 years and authors the „Grapevine” column as well as serving as the paper’s correspondent at the office of the President of Israel. Read more » »
Grapevine April 14, 2021: Reconstructing the life of a single victim
Six million is a number that even a professional mathematician has difficulty in conceiving. Thus, when we speak of six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust, it is often done without the sensitivity that would be reserved for just one victim. Read more » »
New symbolic synagogue at Babyn Yar massacre site unveiled on Yom HaShoah
The Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center (BYHMC) unveiled on Thursday, Holocaust Remembrance Day, the first Jewish prayer space at Babyn Yar. Read more » »
Coalition of organizations urge UN to review UNRWA teaching procedures
WASHINGTON – A coalition of organizations led by Hadassah is lobbying Congress to sign a letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, urging him to make sure that UNRWA “expeditiously make public all information regarding its review and teaching procedures, as well as the content of all textbook pages currently being used in these schools. Read more » »
Holocaust ceremony to commemorate Jews who saved fellow Jews during WWII
The ceremony, held by B’nai B’rith and KKL-JNF, will include personal testimonies by Holocaust survivors and rescuers. Read more » »
Grapevine January 22, 2021: A question of age
■ DELAWARE RABBI Michael Beals of Congregation Shalom, has compared President Joe Biden to Moses, who scholars have calculated was just a little older than Biden is now, when he led the Children of Israel out of Egypt. Read more » »
Podcast offers branch of hope
The Branch has achieved acclaim in a fractured world, shining light on the everyday intertwined lives of Arabs and Jews who have developed deep bonds. By DIANA BLETTER DECEMBER 10, 2020 14: 24 DINA KRAFT reports from Doha Stadium for the B’nai Sahknin soccer team episode. Read more » »
What is on Jewish organizations’ agenda for the new Biden administration?
The first item on the agenda is COVID relief for nonprofits, JFNA CEO Eric Fingerhut told The Jerusalem Post. PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu meets with then-US vice president Joe Biden in Jerusalem in 2016. Read more » »
Grapevine November 20, 2020: Happy birthday, Mr. President-elect
Movers and shakers in Israeli society. YARON MEYER and President Reuven Rivlin point to Meyer’s flower sculpture in the garden pool of the presidential compound. (photo credit: YARON GLASS) ■ US PRESIDENT-elect Joe Biden, has plenty to celebrate. Read more » »
