October 2017

https://anneinpt.wordpress.com/2017/10/13/us-to-withdraw-from-unesco-israel-follows/Great news to start the year! What better news to greet us after Simchat Torah than the Trump Administration announcing its plans to withdraw from UNESCO! The reasons were both financial and because of UNESCO’s […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2017/10/jewish-muslim-links-become-hot-topic.htmlAomar Boum made his name by researching Muslim-Jewish relations in his native Morocco, where there remain fewer Jews than in his adopted home of Los Angeles. Now the topic is becoming hot, and he is […]

http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/2017/10/when-discussion-opened-to-floor-pro.htmlBy Daphne Anson   As I noted last week, anti-Israel events are sprouting thick and fast in the countdown to 2 November and the centenary of the Balfour Declaration, with Israel-denouncing Christians doing their share […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/10/1011-links-pt2-100-years-ago-jewish.htmlFrom Ian: 100 Years Ago, a Jewish Heroine Became an Early Martyr for Human Rights When I was in the fourth grade, my class went on a field trip to Zichron Ya’akov, to visit the […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2017/10/kuwait-donors-fund-aid-for-yemen-jews.htmlFood aid being delivered to Jews in Sana’a Volunteers of the Yemen-based charity Mona Relief delivered food packages to poor Jewish families in Sanaa this week thanks to Kuwaiti donations, the Jerusalem Post reports. Since […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/10/chag-sameach-again.htmlThis is the final of this season’s holidays. I won’t be blogging from sundown on the US East Coast until Saturday night. Israel once issued a series of stamps to celebrate Simchat Torah flags that […]