Page 30 - Passover Packages News Today

Apr 1, 2021 According to a recent study, nearly two-thirds of U.S. Jews have experienced or witnessed an anti-Semitic incident in the past five years. While it’s no secret that anti-Semitism has been on the rise in recent years, a recent poll’s findings are particularly disturbing. An Anti-Defamation League (ADL) study found that that 63% of respondents had either experienced or heard anti-Semitic comments and 59% said they felt less safe in the U.S. now than a decade ago. Hen Mazzig, Senio...

By Yakir Benzion, United With Israel The U.S. State Department this week released its annual reports on human rights around the world, with Israel one of the nearly 200 countries and territories reviewed. Most of us simply ignore the reports as just another stack of boring government documents, but they are the most popular item on the State Department’s website, accessed by over one million people each year. The truth of the matter is that the reports  influence U.S. foreign policy, and tha...

By TPS A new Coronavirus (COVID-19) variant has been discovered in Israel, the Health Ministry announced Tuesday. The ministry’s Central Laboratory for Viruses published a study mapping the COVID-19 strains that exist in Israel since the outbreak of the pandemic in March 2020 until January. An Israeli variant was listed among the various mutations. The strain is uncommon and has no clinical or epidemiological significance, is not related to or causes widespread infection, severe morbidity, or...

Apr 1, 2021 According to USAID, Biden’s $90 million in aid to the Palestinians “adheres” to “anti-terrorism vetting” that ensures “assistance does not go to Hamas or other terrorist organizations.” By JNS The Biden administration has allocated $90 million in aid to the Palestinians, with only a portion of the money being publicly announced, according to a report by the Associated Press. The United States announced last week that it would give $15 million in coronavirus relief to ...

By Yakir Benzion, United With Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that on top of the four peace deals signed in recent month with Arab countries, “four more peace agreements on the way.” “I pledged to take care of the citizens of Israel and I do so with a deep mission. I brought vaccines and four peace agreements, there are four more on the way,” Netanyahu said in an interview in the studios of Ynet, the online arm of the Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot. Netanyahu ...

Teams of diggers rappelled down a dangerous mountain cliff to find dozens of fragments of a 2,000-year-old biblical scroll and more.

A police officer on Capitol Hill has been suspended after he was spotted by congressional aide with a copy of ‘The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” — the notorious anti-Semitic fabrication alleging a Jewish conspiracy to dominate the world that was issued by the Russian Tsar’s secret police in 1903. Photographs provided to  The Washington Post on Monday showed a printed copy of the “Protocols” on a table inside an entrance to the Longworth House Office Building. On Monday evening, ...

Mar 17, 2021 The University of Haifa is collaborating with Harvard in a number of areas, including marine sciences, archaeology, and environmental studies. By TPS The University of Haifa conferred an honorary doctorate upon Harvard University President Lawrence S. Bacow on Monday night, during which he praised the “Start-Up Nation” for “creating, aggregating, and acting as a magnet for human capital.” Bacow received the honorary doctorate in recognition of his global leadership in highe...

Mar 17, 2021 Teams of diggers rappelled down a dangerous mountain cliff to the “Cave of Horror” and found dozens of fragments of a 2,000-year-old biblical scroll and more. By Yakir Benzion, United With Israel The Israel Antiquities Authority announced Tuesday that an archaeological team has made one of the most dramatic and challenging recovery operations from an almost inaccessible cave high up a mountain cliff in the Judean desert. In a four-year operation, teams of archaeologists assiste...

Mar 15, 2021 Kosovo’s Ines Demiri said it was the “greatest honor of my life to have this opportunity to open the Embassy and proudly serve my country in Israel.” By Aryeh Savir, TPS Kosovo officially announced the opening of its embassy in Jerusalem on Sunday, its pledge “given in the Oval Office today is finally fulfilled.” Kosovo’s pledge to open an embassy in Jerusalem was made as part of a normalization agreement between Serbia and Kosovo brokered by U.S. President Donald Trump...