News Editor Justin Cohen reflects on the remarkable life of Holocaust survivor and educator Ben Helfgott, as he's honoured in the Queen's Birthday Honours list:
We look back on the biggest stories of the week, including Chelsea Football Club leading an educational trip to Auschwitz Memorial / Muzeum Auschwitz and an apology over the controversial ‘Kaddish for Gaza’
Rappers KOLLEGAH and Farid Bang made a private visit to the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz Memorial / Muzeum Auschwitz on an invitation from the International Auschwitz Committee, after they caused anger with anti-Semitic lyrics
Mazeltov!
Arise Sir Ben Helfgott! Holocaust survivor gets knighthood in Queen’s Birthday Honours list, while historian Simon Schama, philanthropist Lloyd Dorfman, MP Louise Ellman and Col. Martin Newman among those also recognised.
The Jewish News shared The Times of Israel's video.
A quarter of a million revellers took to the streets for #TelAvivPride - the Middle East's largest #LGBT #Pride parade!
Check out the amazing colours and atmosphere - from our partners over at The Times of Israel:
250,000 take to the streets of Tel Aviv for Middle East's largest Pride Parade https://bit.ly/2JDtfHY
Video by Luke Tress - לוק טרס
More than a quarter of a million people from around the world gathered in Tel Aviv for the largest ever LGBT Pride parade in the Middle East.
Comparing them to sperm donations during routine periods, researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Soroka MedicalCenter noticed a marked difference in more than a third of the samples.
Listen to this week's episode of The Jewish Views #Podcast!
This week we speak to Gideon Falter, the Chairman for Campaign Against Antisemitism about a petition he started to fully proscribe #Hezbollah as a terrorist group ahead of the #AlQudsDay march.
We chat to Michael Greisman tells us about his book 'Jews in Uniform', and we meet the oldest recipient on the New Year's Honours List, Lt. Col. Mordaunt Cohen MBE.
...News Editor Justin Cohen reviews The Jewish News and our Rabbinic Thought for the week comes from Rabbi Andrew Shaw from Mizrachi UK.
Following a major Spanish city’s vote to boycott Israel, the leader of Spain’s third-largest party called the Jewish state a “criminal country” during an interview aired by public television broadcaster.
