Israel president taps first woman officer as military secretary
(JNS) Brig. Gen. Naama Rosen, 40, was appointed the first female military secretary to the Israeli president on Sunday during a ceremony in Jerusalem at the presidential residence.
(JNS) Brig. Gen. Naama Rosen, 40, was appointed the first female military secretary to the Israeli president on Sunday during a ceremony in Jerusalem at the presidential residence.
(Israel Hayom via JNS) Chabad announced on Monday that it would launch unprecedented legal proceedings against Russia to demand the return of the Chassidic group’s historical library, which was illegally confiscated by the Russian authorities.
(Israel Hayom via JNS) Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid has instructed the country’s Foreign Ministry to prepare a series of political measures against Russia to be implemented in the event it closes the Russian branch of the Jewish Agency for Israel, a nonprofit organization that promotes immigration to Israel.
(JTA) — In the same week, sets of unidentified individuals cut down trees planted to commemorate Holocaust victims near the former Nazi camp of Buchenwald in Germany and drew swastikas were onto one of the concrete slabs of Berlin’s Holocaust memorial.
(JNS) French President Emmanuel Macron discussed the dangers of antisemitism as part of an 80th commemoration ceremony of a mass arrest and roundup of Jews in Paris that took place during the years of World War II and the Holocaust.
(JNS) Taglit-Birthright Israel celebrated its 800,000th participant at its annual “mega-event” in Tel Aviv that concludes each summer trip for the group of young Jewish adults who participate in the organization’s free trips to Israel.
(JTA) — After meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, U.S. President Joe Biden conceded that “the ground is not ripe at this moment” to restart long-dormant peace negotiations between Israeli and Palestinian leaders.
(Israel Hayom via JNS) The United States’ commitment to Israel’s security is unwavering, President Joe Biden pledged last Thursday during his meeting in Jerusalem with Prime Minister Yair Lapid.
(Israel21c via JNS) X-rays of Amedeo Modigliani’s 1908 painting “Nude with a Hat” yielded a surprise for curators at the Hecht Museum in Haifa: three unfinished sketches by the celebrated Jewish Italian artist were hiding beneath the surface.
(JNS) Monty Norman, the Jewish-British composer and lyricist who wrote the theme song for the James Bond films, died on July 11 at the age of 94 after battling a “short illness,” according to a statement posted on his official website.