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Portuguese Police Officer Remembered, Killed Saving Israeli Ambassador’s Life
The International Observatory for Human Rights and B’nai B’rith International Portugal paid tribute in Porto on Sunday to the Personal Security Corps of the Public Security Police and to its agent Ildefonso Pereira, who died in the line of duty in 1979 while saving the life of the Israeli Ambassador to Portugal, Ephraim Eldar. Read more » »
“Let My People Stay!”
When Hashem first appears to Moshe at the burning bush, he orders Moshe to set out on the mission to bring the enslaved Jews out of Egypt and lead them to the Promised Land. Read more » »
Bnai Brith Portugal Remembers the Nun Who Recited Kaddish for a Jewish Man
In Portugal, where once the Inquisition did its best to annihilate the Jewish People, a Catholic nun ensured that the Kaddish — the traditional Jewish Prayer for the Dead — was recited for the soul of a Jewish man she cared for in his final months of life. Read more » »
Israel’s Ambassador, Bnai Brith Portugal Warn Silence of Portuguese Politicians Could Lead to Antisemitic Violence
Israel’s Ambassador to Portugal, Dor Shapira, and Bnai Brith Portugal President, Gabriela Cantergi, have called out the complete and deafening silence of Portuguese politicians from across the political spectrum after successive anti-Semitic incidents in Portugal. Read more » »
Cecil B. DeMille’s First – And Largely Unknown – Version Of The Ten Commandments
Cecil Blount DeMille (1881-1959) was a renowned American filmmaker broadly acknowledged as a founding father of American cinema and was arguably the most commercially successful producer-director in film history. Read more » »
Washington, DC – U.S. – Romanian Roundtable On Holocaust Remembrance And The Threat Of Antisemitism
Last week, Romanian representatives and the members of the U.S. Congress and of the Administration, Jewish organizations, experts, and members of the diplomatic corps in Washington, D.C., joined a roundtable to address past and current threats of antisemitism and ways to combat it. Read more » »
Charles Evans Hughes And The Jews
The remarkable Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948) is best known for his terms as Associate Justice (1910-1916) and later as Chief Justice (1930-1941) of the Supreme Court, for which many commentators characterize him as one of the Court’s greatest jurists. Read more » »
Myron Taylor, Jewish Refugees, The Pope And Israel
Myron C. Taylor (1874-1959) was a leading American industrialist and an important geopolitical diplomat during and after World War II. One of the great textile industry magnates, he later became the head of U.S. Steel before being selected by President Franklin D. Read more » »
107 Groups Threaten to Boycott Anthropological Association Over BDS Pro-Resolution
More than 100 education, civil rights, and religious groups on Tuesday urged more than 250 university leaders to publicly condemn a resolution the American Anthropological Association is about to embrace “to boycott Israeli academic institutions. Read more » »
Part XVII: Systematically and Methodically Murdered
*Editor’s Note: This is part XVII in a series. You can read Part XVI, here On November 16, 1941, the JTA, Der Tog, and Forward reported that it received information from an unimpeachable source that “fifty-two thousand Jews, including men, woman, Read more » »
