Tag: Jewish

As Passover approaches, I am reminded of the Passover seasons of my youth growing up in Canada. As we would prepare to celebrate the festival of Jewish freedom from bondage, we would be reminded of those Jews around the world who were not yet free. At the time, this ...

In its editorial on March 3, “Treating refugees,” The Jerusalem Post states: “It is high time that Israel stop being so stringent in its opposition to absorbing refugees from distressed situations. Israel is a strong country, its Jewish character and essence unthreatened by hundreds – or even thousands – ...

AP — On the eve of her 100th birthday Saturday, Ruth Salton told her daughter she was going one way or another to Friday night Shabbat services at Congregation Beth Israel, just days after an antisemitic gunman held four worshipers hostage for 10 hours at the Fort Worth-area synagogue. ...

On the eve of her 100th birthday Saturday, Ruth Salton told her daughter she was going one way or another to Friday night Shabbat services at Congregation Beth Israel, just days after a gunman voicing antisemitic conspiracy theories held four worshippers hostage for 10 hours at the Fort Worth-area ...

The UN has slandered Israel with yet another report containing ugly charges of “ethnic cleansing,” “apartheid” and other fictitious atrocities against the Palestinians.Meanwhile, in the real world, this is what was happening: Israeli doctors continued to treat thousands of Palestinians in Israeli hospitals and conduct world-class humanitarian medical work ...

COLLEYVILLE, Texas — The 11-hour Sabbath hostage crisis at Congregation Beth Israel did not appear to shake anyone out of their routines in the Dallas suburb of Colleyville the following day. Residents of the affluent, predominantly Christian town of 26,000, peppered the sidewalks, walking their dogs or out for ...

Major cities across the U.S. are taking steps to protect Jewish communities in the wake of the Texas synagogue attack and hostage situation on Saturday.On Sunday, New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced in a tweet that enhanced security from the city's police department was being deployed to Jewish ...

#Pakistan News All hostages of Texas synagogue have been freed some ten hours after a man has demanded release of a woman in prison because of terrorism. Police said they were alerted to an emergency Saturday morning at the Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, some 40 kilometers west of ...

The invitation to the Jerusalem Cinematheque to see the documentary film by Bernard-Henri Lévy stated that there would be a reception and the lighting of the first Hanukkah candle at 7 p.m. on Sunday. Lévy and his entourage arrived at the Cinematheque at around 7 and promptly disappeared. Most ...

#Pakistan News The last Jewish person living in Afghanistan arrived in Istanbul Sunday after Turkey granted him a visa. Born in Afghanistan's Herat province on the Iranian border before living in the capital Kabul, Zebulun Simantov, 62, had been evacuated from his home country some time ago. Simantov arrived ...