After noting in 1853 that there was no chief rabbi in the United States and no national platform for Jews to discuss the crisis of the Union, the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, a predominantly Christian organization based in New York, ended its annual report for that year with an appeal to Sons of Abraham: “The objects of so much mean prejudice and unrighteous oppression as the Jews have been for ages, surely they, it would seem, more than any other denomination, ought to be enemies of caste and the friends of universal freedom.”In his book Fear No Pharaoh, Richard…
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Researchers from Keele University and Goldsmiths, University of London revealed World War II decoy strategies employed by Britain to mislead German bombers. In a recent study, the team investigated three Allied aerial bombing decoy sites in North Staffordshire, uncovering variations in preservation and construction.The study, titled "Multi-disciplinary site investigations of WW2 allied aerial bombing decoy sites in North Staffordshire, UK," focused on three of four known sites near Stoke-on-Trent: Keele, Beech, and Caverswall, which were built between August 1941 and April 1943. These decoy sites were strategically constructed along German radio beam directions used for navigation, simulating residential areas…
Life used to be so much simpler, didn’t it? No, for once, this has nothing to do with COVID-19 shenanigans, or even a bygone era when you offered your guests either tea or coffee, with few or no permutations on either beverage to be had.Ruth Schreiber’s contribution to the current round of the Jerusalem Biennale for Contemporary Jewish Art harks back to a time when men and women got together, in true biblical style, and just went forth and multiplied. Then again, her creative purview casts the procreation process net so much further.She calls her show, which runs at…
A court in Tajikistan has handed down prison sentences of between eight and 20 years to more than 30 people it convicted of trying to poison attendees of a festival last year, the prosecutor general's office said on Friday.A source in the Tajik security services told Reuters the convicted people were all tied to Islamic State Khorasan (ISIS-K), the Afghan offshoot of Islamic State.Islamic State, the terrorist group that once sought control over swathes of Iraq and Syria, claimed responsibility for a mass shooting at a concert hall near Moscow last year which left 145 people dead. Targeting a…
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, reflecting on the year of war since Hamas’s October 7 massacre last year, reiterated in a post on X/Twitter on Monday that Israel would continue to defend itself."A year has passed since that morning when the State of Israel woke up to a brutal attack that led to the most just war in all our years. A year of hard and continuous war, day and night," Gallant said.שנה חלפה מאותו הבוקר בו התעוררה מדינת ישראל אל מתקפה אכזרית שהובילה למלחמה הצודקת ביותר בכל שנותינו. שנה של מלחמה קשה ורצופה, יום וליל. חבל ארץ פורח ומשגשג…
(JTA) — The leader of a far-right French political party founded by a Holocaust denier and a former Nazi officer is headed to Israel.So are politicians from far-right parties in Spain, Sweden and the Netherlands — all tapped to speak at this month’s International Conference on Combating Antisemitism. It is the most prominent manifestation, so far, of an Israeli government announcement two weeks ago that the country will end its longstanding boycott of far-right parties in Sweden, France and Spain.While Israel is maintaining its boycott of far-right parties in Austria and Germany, the policy change signals that Israel has…
The best movie I’ve seen so far this year – and likely the best movie I will see – is the Iranian film The Seed of the Sacred Fig, which opened throughout the country on Thursday. It’s an extremely suspenseful psychological thriller, political allegory, and complex family drama that plays like Alfred Hitchcock meets the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement.Perhaps the best compliment I can pay the writer/director, Mohammad Rasoulof, is to say that when the film, which opened the Haifa International Film Festival, was over, I couldn’t believe it was nearly three hours. It was so good in every…
Yesh Atid head Yair Lapid is in trouble.And no, this has nothing to do with the snide, insulting comment he made Monday in an interview about National Missions Minister Orit Strock: “I look at Orit Strock, and just for that, I deserve a raise.”Lapid—justifiably—was taken to the woodshed by coalition MKs for that remark. Rather than apologizing, however, he doubled down like most politicians in similar situations. “Everyone understands that I was talking about her conduct, not her appearance. It’s a shame I didn’t see such outrage when Orit Strock said that the hostages should be abandoned and left…
דוכסית סאסקס מייגן מרקל, שיתפה אתמול (שבת) תמונה שטרם נראתה של בעלה הנסיך הארי ובתם בת השלוש, הנסיכה ליליבט. בתמונה, הארי מנשק את ראשה של בתו בזמן שהיא יושבת בחיקו על סירה."יום האישה הבינלאומי שמח!", כתבה מרקל, שחולקת גם את בנה הנסיך ארצ'י בן החמש עם הדוכס מסאסקס, בפוסט שהעלתה לאינסטגרם. "חוגגים את הנשים החזקות סביבנו ואת הבנות עם החלומות שיהפכו לנשים עם חזון. מודה גם למי שמעודד אותנו כל יום".הנסיך הארי ובתם ליליבט (צילום: מתוך אינסטגרם)לצד תמונת האב והבת, בת ה-43 שיתפה תמונה של הארי, בן 40, מחבק אותה מאחור בחוף הים. היא גם העלתה תמונות שלה…
בכל שנה היא עושה את זה, אבל הפעם, היא הצליחה להתעלות. רגע אחרי ההופעה המרשימה של בית"ר ירושלים במשחק שסגר את העונה הסדירה מול הפועל באר שבע, אשתו של מאמן הצהובים-שחורים, ברק יצחקי, שברה את הרשת.ספיר יודשקין יצחקי, החצי השני של מאמן בית"ר, הגיעה למסיבה המסורתית של סוכנות "יולי" כשהיא מחופשת ללארה קרופט, גיבורת סדרת משחקי הווידאו "טומב ריידר". ספיר יודשקין | מסך אינסטגרם בסרט ההוליוודי אנג'לינה ג'ולי זכתה לגלם את דמותה האייקונית של הגיבורה המדהימה, ואשת המאמן הציגה תחפושת שדומה לכוכבת הענקית שתי טיפות מים. בשנה שעברה היא עשתה את זה כשהתחפשה לג'סיקה ראביט, הדמות המצוירת הסקסית…