Amos Hochstein, born in Israel, and a senior White House official and top Biden national security advisor, is the President’s official mediator in Lebanon. He has made at least five trips to Israel and Lebanon since the war in Gaza prompted Hezbollah to launch rocket attacks on northern Israel in solidarity with Hamas. His mission is to find a diplomatic alternative and bring calm to the Israel-Lebanon border so that the conflict does not escalate.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a joint session of Congress on July 24 for the fourth time, speaking of “the deep historical ties between Israel and the U.S.” He centered his remarks on the Hamas-led attack that took place on Oct. 7 in southern Israel, which killed around 1,200 people and resulted in hundreds more taken hostage. Meanwhile, outside the Capitol, thousands protested, voicing frustration and outrage at the government’s military campaign into the Gaza [...]
A diary recorded by Yitskhok Rudashevski, a teenager in Vilnius during the Nazi Era, offers a different picture of daily life from that of diarist Anne Frank, according to the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in Manhattan. The institute will focus on this diary in the next installment of its “online museum” of Jewish history. This diary provides a wider lens on life under Nazi persecution than Anne Frank’s journal because, unlike Anne, he was [...]
An article by Alix Strauss in the July 7 issue of The New York Times’ “Vows” column introduces the focus of a recently added online exhibition, produced by Yad Vashem and titled “Weddings During the Holocaust, which debuted, as planned, on Feb. 14, 2024. Six months in the making, “Weddings During the Holocaust” is one of 70 ongoing online illustrating exhibits depicting the Holocaust. It is the only retrospective to illustrate couples who married during [...]
Yair Whiteson, 13, found as bronze ring while hiking with his father. Experts believe it depicts Minerva or Athena and dates be leading to a new chapter,” said Thoufeek Zakriya, a Hebrew calligrapher and scholar of Jewish history. The settlement on the Carmel forest ridge has been under archaeological investigation for 150 years, yet the ring has only now been found. Yair and his father gave the ring to the Israel Antiquities Authority, which dated [...]
Hundreds of people gathered in Jerusalem’s Baka neighborhood on July 18 to complete a new Torah scroll dedicated to the hostages who remain held in Gaza. The Torah scroll project was initiated by Jon Polin and Rachel Goldberg-Polin, the parents of hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, as part of a Week of Goodness effort led by the family to inspire acts of kindness. The last 120 letters in the scroll were completed by scribe Akiva Garber that [...]
Three Columbia University administrators have been “permanently removed from their positions” after sending a series of derisive text messages during a panel on campus Jewish life, Angela V. Olinto, the university’s provost, said in a statement. In an accompanying letter, Columbia President Minouche Shafik wrote that the texts echoed antisemitism and vowed to start a “vigorous program of antisemitism and antidiscrimination training” in the fall, when classes reconvene. The three deans at the center of [...]
In the face of rising antisemitism around the world and the number of Holocaust survivors steadily decreasing, Yad Vashem, Israel’s official Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, is stepping up efforts to preserve Holocaust memorabilia. Part of the massive repository of Holocaust-related artifacts had been scattered around Yad Vashem’s vast campus, but now they will be housed in the new David and Fela Shapell Family Collections Center, which opened last month, housing the artifacts in a protected [...]
August 11 10:00 AM- 11:30 AM Join the family fun in Greenport FREE and open to the community! Bagels, crafts, read-a-loud for the family For: Newborns (0-12 months), Toddler (1-3 years), Preschool (3-5 years), K-2nd grade (5-7 years) Event cost: Free
If you happen to drive by the Common Ground planting beds on a Wednesday morning, chances are you’ll see Madelyn Rothman and some of her Tikkun Olam colleagues with their hands in the dirt, harvesting the week’s bounty, to be delivered that day to CAST, whose clients are the beneficiaries of the TOI’s growing expertise. In addition to crunchy cukes, pictured, the group has planted lettuce, chard, dill, basil, shishito peppers, and flowers. Want to [...]
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