Tuesday, August 8, 2023

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.
 

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