Secret apartheid-era documents show that Israel offered to sell nuclear warheads to South Africa in the mid-1970s, a British newspaper reported.
For most readers, it is a rare and even unique experience to view the Holocaust through German eyes. With the long-awaited and much-anticipated publication of “Holocaust: The Nazi Persecution and Murder of the Jews” by Peter Longerich (Oxford University Press: $34.95, 645 pps.), we are able to find out for ourselves what the Shoah means to a German scholar who has studied the subject deeply and with discernment.
Israeli police have recommended that the state prosecutor indict Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on charges of breach of trust.\n
Newt Gingrich is drawing a rebuke from Jewish groups for labeling political opponents Nazis.
The Israeli Navy is preparing to quietly intercept an international flotilla attempting a highly visible run on the naval blockade of the Gaza Strip.
This week, Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren will give the commencement address to graduating students at America’s preeminent historic Jewish university, Brandeis. The selection of Oren sparked a massive outcry by hundreds of the school’s 3,000 plus students, claiming the Israeli ambassador does not represent the university’s values (despite the school’s founding by an ardent Zionist) and is a “rogue-state apologist”.
Rachel Andres, 2008 recipient of The Charles Bronfman Prize, is dedicated to improving the safety and security of survivors of Darfur’s genocide. As Director of Jewish World Watch’s landmark Solar Cooker Project (SCP), Andres has reduced the risk of sexual violence against refugee women by providing an alternative cooking option, enabling them to limit searching for firewood outside the relative safety of refugee camps.\nWhat are you focused on today?
More news and opinions than at a Shabbat dinner, right in your inbox.