2020

https://anneinpt.wordpress.com/2020/10/02/sukkot-5781-chag-sameach/  The festival of Sukkot, the most joyous festival in the Jewish calendar, begins tonight, lasting for 7 days (8 outside of Israel), running straight into the Simchat Torah festival on the 8th day (9th […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/10/egyptian-ministry-of-culture-spouts.html Egypt’s Supreme Council of Culture commemorated the 50th anniversary of Gamal Abdel Nasser’s death with a conference that was in many ways a direct attack on Israel, employing “Protocols”-type antisemitic tropes. The conference, held […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/10/chag-sameach.htmlTonight begins the holiday of Sukkot.  Here are a couple of scenes from a 1960 film of Sukkot in Tel Aviv, newly released by the Israel Film Archive. Have a great holiday! We have lots […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/10/hamas-stages-photos-of-its-masked.htmlEven terrorists like public relations. Here’s a particularly bizarre example from Al Resalah, showing masked Hamas terrorists handing out masks to the public in Gaza. Do women wearing burqas need masks? And if so, how […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2020/10/egyptian-court-strips-jewish-site-of.htmlAs fast as the UAE and Bahrain are ‘normalising’ relations with Israel, Egypt seems to be going backwards.  A recent Supreme Court ruling bans Jewish pilgrims  from holding a January festival at the mausoleum of […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/10/1001-links-p2-look-back-at-muhammad-al.htmlFrom Ian: Richard Landes: A look back at the Muhammad al-Dura affair, 20 years later Yesterday was the 20th anniversary of one of the most disastrous events in the year 2000, an event that cast […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/10/new-gen-z-siddur-includes-translation.html Our weekly column from the humor site PreOccupied Territory. Check out their Facebook page. New York, October 1 – Educational and communal institutions continue to struggle to reach and attract young people, but one such organization […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/10/1001-links-p1-merkels-government-is.htmlFrom Ian: The UN must recalculate its route In my capacity as a minister in various Israeli cabinets, I dealt extensively with the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement. I have come to know firsthand the […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/10/thanks-to-palestinian-authority-gaza.html Since 2014, the UN – in cooperation with Israel and the PA – put together a process called the Gaza Reconstruction Mechanism, or GRM, which allowed construction materials to flow into Gaza after Operation […]