Wiener Holocaust Library needs £2,000 to preserve historic 18th-century Czech scroll;Harvey Meyerhoff, chair of U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum at its founding, dies at 96;Jamie Foxx apologises to ‘the Jewish community and everyone offended’ by Christ-killer post

 

THE DAILY EDITION Tuesday, August 8, 2023

JEWISH NEWS MEETS... ‘We’re seeing the end of the Iranian regime. Expect the final chapter’ BY JENNI FRAZER British-Iranian hunger striker Vahid Beheshti delivers a message of hope on the 166th day of his sit-in protest outside the Foreign Office in Whitehall.

Poll: 58% of Israelis believe the country is in a ‘state of emergency’ BY JOTAM CONFINO IN ISRAEL New poll also claims 60.5% of Israelis think the newly-passed “reasonableness law”, which prevents the Supreme Court from striking down government decisions, is bad for democracy.

University students feel ‘hopeless’ as strike action leaves them in graduation limbo BY MICHELLE ROSENBERG “Instead of celebrating I’m in limbo with my job and career in jeopardy”: Thousands left without grades and issued with blank certificates.

Israeli-Canadian billionaire Sylvan Adams wins cycling world championship in Scotland BY JACOB GURVIS (JTA) Despite not picking up cycling until he was in his 40s, Adams had previously won numerous international competitions, including the 2017 World Championship in Manchester.

Conservatives received 14 complaints of antisemitism in 2022 BY JN REPORTER Data released from one-year review into high-profile allegations of discrimination against Tories

‘Humiliated’: Israeli model kicked out of Egyptian hotel BY JN REPORTER Shay Zanco said she was asked to leave the hotel immediately after the discovered her background.

Wiener Holocaust Library needs £2,000 to preserve historic 18th-century Czech scroll BY DANIEL PESIN Vital work need on Sefer Torah confiscated by Nazis and stored in a Prague warehouse

World ORT helps Ukrainian teens enjoy summer school abroad BY JN REPORTER

2,000 years in the making: UK hosts first cross-communal yeshiva BY DANIEL PESIN Edinburgh welcomes more than 100 learners to inclusive Talmud community at Azara

Harvey Meyerhoff, chair of U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum at its founding, dies at 96 BY ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL (JTA) Meyerhoff raised the £117 million in private funds that built the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Holocaust envoy launches research portal into Nazi occupation of Alderney BY MICHELLE ROSENBERG   Jamie Foxx apologises to ‘the Jewish community and everyone offended’ by Christ-killer post BY JN REPORTER

Gal Gadot confirms a third Wonder Woman film is in the works BY MICHELLE ROSENBERG The Israeli actress has also said Patti Jenkins, who directed the first two movies in the Wonder Woman franchise in which Gadot starred, would not be returning.