Jonathan Harounoff

1 week ago | jewishnews.co.uk | Jonathan Harounoff

One of Elie Wiesel’s best-known aphorisms remains among his most evergreen: “When someone says they want to kill you, believe them.”  Even since its revolutionary origins in 1979, the Islamic Republic of Iran’s ruling clerics have remained singularly hellbent on Israel’s annihilation. The rhetoric has not been ambiguous, nor has it been metaphorical. It has been unequivocally genocidal.

1 week ago | thejc.com | Jonathan Harounoff

Daniel Elbaum, the Jewish Agency for Israel’s Head of North America, told the JC that the surprise Hamas attack united Israel and the Jewish people worldwide in ways not seen since the 1967 Six-Day War, which witnessed a similar post-war aliyah boom. “Since October 7, there’s been a 510 per cent increase in the opening of aliyah files in comparison with the same period last year,” he said. The process for making aliyah remains fairly straightforward.

2 weeks ago | thejc.com | Jonathan Harounoff

This abhorrent episode in French history revealed the dangerous power of misinformation. Of how false rumours, when wrapped in prejudice and shouted loudly enough, can override the facts and outlive the truth, causing irreparable damage even when debunked. That was long before the digital age of information-sharing. Before Twitter. Before the 24-hour news cycle. In today’s world, news – whether false or true – is transmitted, consumed and disseminated at stratospheric speed.

1 month ago | jewishnews.co.uk | Jonathan Harounoff

Yaron Lischinsky, a promising researcher at Israel’s Embassy in Washington, D.C, had exciting plans for next week. Born in Israel and raised in Germany, the 30-year-old was the son of a Jewish father and Christian mother, maintaining a strong connection to the people and land of Israel. Having just purchased an engagement ring, he planned to propose to his girlfriend, Kansas-born Sarah Milgrim, next week in Jerusalem after meeting her family there for the first time.

1 month ago | thejc.com | Jonathan Harounoff

The families urged ambassadors to plead for an end to the years of psychological torment they had been enduring while their murdered loved ones continued to be held by Hamas terrorists. Leah Goldin’s unimaginable pain long predated October 7.