April 2020

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-gourion-family-produced-mimouna.htmlThe Algerian Gourion  family of Oran were famous for two things: running a bakery and producing a priest. An interesting article by Charles Bunan in the Gazette de Morial  explains (with thanks Leon): Rue d’Austerlitz […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/04/0422-links-pt2-sermons-in-solitude-jews.htmlFrom Ian: Meir Y. Soloveichik: Sermons in Solitude: Jews of Faith Are Never Alone On Thursday, March 13, my synagogue, Congregation Shearith Israel in New York City, announced it would not be holding services on […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/04/backwards-jewish-thinking-live-in.html Yom HaShoah, Israel’s Holocaust Day, from the night of April 20, through April 21, meant that depressing coronavirus news shared somewhat equal billing with solemn Holocaust-related news items, at least for a few days. […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/04/my-tuesday-morning-vic-rosenthal.html  Vic Rosenthal’s Weekly Column We found a chair on Tuesday morning. In Israel, unlike the USA, most people don’t have garages, basements, or attics to fill up with junk. When something is no longer […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/04/0422-links-pt1-antisemitism-in-age-of.htmlFrom Ian: Israeli UN Ambassador Danon: Palestinians getting coronavirus aid from Israel respond with outrageous claims Israel has gone to great lengths and donated generously to protect Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/04/palestinians-upset-that-lebanese.htmlLebanese newspaper  Al-Jumhoria published a very anti-Palestinian editorial cartoon last week that caused outrage from Palestinian officials. The cartoon shows two circular figures. One is labeled “April 13, 1975,” the anniversary of the start of the […]

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/jNPo/~3/cARTVv5chtA/22-apr-20-jerusalem-pandemic-or-not.html Teddy Stadium, Jerusalem [Image Source] We haven’t done much blogging lately. No, we’re not traveling. Nor are we dealing with back-to-back meetings as sometimes has happened in a previous era. But in the current […]

http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/2020/04/in-australia-some-jewish-leftists-sink.htmlBy Daphne Anson   The far left frequently Israel-demonising Australian Jewish Democratic Society (AJDS) has dismayed even Jewish observers disposed to try to think well of it, by promoting a film called :Gaza Fights for […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/04/first-coronavirus-case-in-overcrowded.html Wavel (Galilee) camp As I have reported previously, while people who pretend to be pro-Palestinian activists concentrate on the risk of COVID-19 in Gaza, they are silent about the much worse conditions in the […]