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2 weeks ago | 
thejc.com | Daniel Ben-David
The NJA’s position, he said, “is to support the Israeli government as elected by Israelis and the democratic process”. British groups that support Israel on a conditional basis, depending on who is in power or what action the government takes, is “almost anti-democratic”, Mond a former vice president of the Board of Deputies argued.
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2 weeks ago | 
thejc.com | Daniel Ben-David
“That arrangement has always gone on very well; it is still going well,” Carlebach told the JC. “But in this particular situation, when I found this box with the graffiti, my first reaction was that it was a little bit of a dampener on the general festive spirit. “But I quickly realised that one of the messages of Pesach is that as much as they try to harm us, we will multiply and grow and become stronger.
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2 weeks ago | 
thejc.com | Daniel Ben-David
Born William Albert Ackman in 1966 to Jewish parents in Chappaqua, New York, he was a Democrat for years before switching to support Trump during the 2016 election campaign. In an interview with CTech, an Israeli technology website, Ackman said he has “always identified as Jewish. My parents are Jewish, it’s an important part of my heritage.
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2 weeks ago | 
thejc.com | Daniel Ben-David
It is also equipped with a sensory room and sensory garden, a cinema, a music room, a soft-play area and games rooms. An IT room housing several computers, enabling independence and providing the space for residents to pursue their own interests, is being created too. Residents and staff go together on myriad trips to parks, petting zoos, ice rinks, museums, bowling lanes, aquariums, famous landmarks and – a personal favourite of several residents – a ride on the bus.
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2 weeks ago | 
thejc.com | Daniel Ben-David
Sharing his family’s fascinating history, Robinson tells how his grandparents fled Berlin, traversing the world in search of a new home and eventually settling in Shanghai.
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2 weeks ago | 
thejc.com | Daniel Ben-David
US Central Command has not confirmed or commented the reports. It has said little in public about operations in Yemen since launching a wave of strikes on 15 March, details of which were leaked ahead of time to the editor of the Atlantic. The latest strikes follow a visit to the White House on Monday by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who met with President Donald Trump for the second time since the US president’s return to office.
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3 weeks ago | 
thejc.com | Daniel Ben-David
The Houthis, backed by the Iranian regime, have long been accused of carrying out a wide range of human rights violations which includes shelling civilian areas, executing rivals and objectors, using child soldiers, and have been filmed performing Nazi salutes en masse at rallies. The London-based Arabic newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat alleged that the Houthis have revived slavery in Yemen.
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3 weeks ago | 
thejc.com | Daniel Ben-David
“I have a strong memory of when I was about 15 years old. There lived on my street in the city of Borujerd a Jewish family, with whom most of the community had a great relationship. The mother especially was kind to all of us children in the street. One day, walking to school early in the morning, I saw a Muslim man jump away from the water that was running down her drive as she was doing her washing, believing it, and she, was dirty. I shouted at him that she is as human as we are.
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3 weeks ago | 
thejc.com | Daniel Ben-David
He added that senior executives at the news corporation should be fired for signing off on the documentary, Gaza: How To Survive A Warzone in February. Shortly after the airing of the documentary it was revealed that the narrator was the child of a Hamas government official, leading to the film being pulled from the broadcaster’s streaming service. An internal BBC review found “serious flaws” in the making of the documentary.
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3 weeks ago | 
thejc.com | Daniel Ben-David
Its return was recommended by the Spoliation Advisory Panel (SAP), which advises the government on claims for cultural property looted during the Nazi era. The SAP said the Nazis’ seizure of the painting from Antwerp-based Jewish collector Samuel Hartveld was “an act of racial persecution” It was one of more than 60 artworks taken from Hartveld in 1940 by the Nazis, who subsequently sold them.
