Simcha Pasko

Simcha Pasko is a former breaking news editor for The Jerusalem Post. They are an olah from New Jersey, who moved to Israel in 2019.

Israel’s continued participation in the Eurovision Song Contest has prompted boycotts and broadcaster withdrawals, extending the campaign for exclusion from sport into popular culture.

Netherlands to sit out Eurovision for second year in protest of Israel’s participation

Firefighters try to extinguish a wildfire near the Ben Shemen Interchange along Highway 6, central Israel, August 4, 2026.

Police lift road closures following fires, floods across Israel

  Simantov, an Afghan Jew, prays at his residence in Kabul

Last Jew in Afghanistan refuses to give wife Jewish divorce


Alex Jones loses Sandy Hook defamation lawsuit

Alex Jones and Infowars media spread claims that the shooting that killed 20 first-graders and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School was a hoax, leading to the lawsuit being filed.

 Right-wing radio talk show host Alex Jones speaks during a rally at Freedom Plaza, ahead of the U.S. Congress certification of the November 2020 election results, during protests in Washington, US, January 5, 2021

On This Day: 12 Nazis sentenced to death in the Nuremberg Trials

The Nuremberg trials were a series of 13 trials carried out between 1945 and 1949, the Trial of Major War Criminals being held from November 20, 1945 to October 1, 1946. 

Nazi defendants appear at the Nuremberg Trials

Last Jew of Afghanistan divorces wife after 20 years of refusal - report

Zabulon Simantov signed divorce papers via a Zoom call with the Sydney Tribunal, with several others in attendance.

 Zabulon Simantov, an Afghan Jew, blows the traditional shofar, or ram's horn, at a synagogue in Kabul

Republican committee member who opposed mask mandates dies of COVID-19

Gregg Prentice, 61, led the Hillsborough County Election Integrity Committee and was a critic of the vaccine, mask mandates, and other preventative measures.

 Residents demonstrate before the Lake County School Board started an emergency meeting to discuss mask mandates to prevent the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Tavares, Florida, US, September 2, 2021.

Combat Antisemitism Movement monitoring 'Qui?' movement in France

The movement began after a retired French general gave an interview referencing an "anonymous" group that controlled the media. It has gained traction throughout France.

 Demonstrators hold up a banner with an image of late French humorist Coluche during a protest against France's restrictions, including compulsory health passes, to fight the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Paris, France, September 11, 2021.

On This Day: The final expulsion of Jews from France

On September 17, 1394, King Charles VI of France ordered that all Jewish people be expelled from the kingdom. 

 Medieval French castle

Marjorie Taylor Greene compares COVID vaccine mandate to Nuremberg Code

Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has previously come under fire for Holocaust comparisons, compared a pending vaccine mandate for federal employees to the Nuremberg Code.

REPUBLICAN CONGRESSWOMAN Marjorie Taylor Greene walks through the Capitol as Democrats debate an article of impeachment against then-president Donald Trump on January 13.

Nicotine found in hair of 70% of children whose parents smoke

The researchers wanted to examine whether raising awareness of children's exposure might change their parents' behavior.

Deep breaths: Smoking pollution in Tel Aviv

Biden on Kabul suicide bombings: 'We will hunt you down and make you pay'

Terror group ISIS-K claimed responsibility for the bombings near Kabul airport that killed over 70 civilians, 28 Taliban members, 13 US troops.

 Crowds of people show their documents to U.S. troops outside the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan August 26, 2021

Taliban promise to protect women, then kill them for how they dress

The Taliban have shot and killed a woman for not wearing a burka the same day the group promised to honor women's rights.

 Women queue as they wait to cast their vote at a polling station in Kabul August 20, 2009.