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thenews.pl
April 22, 2018
Along the way marchers will stop by a number of sites, including a Righteous Tree which commemorates people who risked their lives trying to save Jews during WWII and a monument to Szmul Zygielbojm – a Jewish-Polish politician who committed suicide in protest of the indifference of the AlliedÃâà...
Charleston Post Courier
April 22, 2018
On Sunday, April 29, the conference continues in the Jewish Studies Center's Arnold Hall, 96 Wentworth St., with a session at 10:15 a.m. in the Recital Hall titled “Difficult History: Plantations, Concentration Camps, and Cultural Tourism,” moderated by Robin Waites, executive director of Historic Columbia,Ãâà...
CNN
April 22, 2018
He introduced himself to Democratic activists at Cooney's Tavern as the grandson of a Mexican immigrant who became a citizen "because this country said there was a place in it for him." He joked about his heritage as "just your average Mexican-American-Jewish-Italian," reviving a line from his speech atÃâà...
New York Times
April 21, 2018
On Tuesday he was assaulted in broad daylight by a Syrian asylum-seeker who whipped him with a belt for being “yahudi” — Arabic for Jew. The episode was caught on ... All this comes to mind as Israel this week marks (in the Hebrew calendar) the 70th anniversary of its independence. There are manyÃâà...
Kansas City Star
April 21, 2018
Actress Natalie Portman has snubbed a prestigious prize known as the "Jewish Nobel," saying she did not want her attendance to be seen as an endorsement of Israeli ... "Like many Israelis and Jews around the world, I can be critical of the leadership in Israel without wanting to boycott the entire nation.
Los Angeles Times
April 20, 2018
A 26-year-old Irvine man who prosecutors say threatened to kill prominent Jews was charged Thursday with attempted hate crime threats, officials said. Investigators found Nicholas Rose in possession of "kill lists" of Jewish people, a list of steps titled "killing my first Jew," and anti-Semitic literature,Ãâà...
Cleveland Jewish News
April 12, 2018
The Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage will hold its “An Island within an Island: The Story of Jews in Cuba” with Irene Shaland from 7 to 9 p.m. at the museum, 2929 Richmond Road in Beachwood. Shaland, who is an art and travel writer, will talk about the Cuban Jewish struggle for survival in the face ofÃâà...
St. Louis Jewish Light
April 12, 2018
Many other local Jewish students have been acting as student advocates and trying to spread awareness about the issue, including Lauren Bayne, a junior at ... “At Washington Hebrew, they had a Shabbat for Our Lives service filled with teen speakers from NFTY regions, including speakers from Parkland,”Ãâà...
St. Louis Jewish Light
April 12, 2018
All of these players have at least one Jewish parent and identify as Jewish or secular. I know the following players had a bar mitzvah: Bregman, Pillar, Valencia and Weiss. The others did not, with the exception of Bleier, whom I am unsure about. Pederson did play for Israel in the World Baseball Classic.
The Jewish News
April 12, 2018
The JCC's Lenore Marwil Jewish Film Festival celebrates its 20th birthday with a diverse collection of films. A Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright. ... way they love other famous Jewish athletes.” Newberger thinks of the film as very relatable to Jews of the diaspora, like himself, who feel a connection to Israel.
Sun Sentinel
April 12, 2018
Prior to the murder of six million Jews between 1939 and 1945, there were 16,600,000 spread throughout the world. Today's data, based on information gathered by Hebrew University's Division of Jewish Demography and Statistics and the A. Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, indicates that thereÃâà...
New York Times
April 12, 2018
Many of Israel's founders believed the Jewish state was necessary because the Jewish people would always be under the threat of destruction, others could not be relied upon to protect the Jews, and the preservation of the Jewish people required a country of their own. Or, to put it with typical IsraeliÃâà...
The Jewish News
April 12, 2018
According to The Jewish Baseball Card Book (Jewish Major Leaguers, Inc., Newton, Mass.) by Bob Wechsler with Peter McDonald and Martin Abramowitz, there are some 169 Jews who have played in at least one major league game from 1871-2016. In this new, lavishly illustrated and researchedÃâà...
Cleveland Jewish News
April 12, 2018
Think Jewish Cleveland – an initiative by Fuchs Mizrachi School in Beachwood, Gross Schechter Day School in Pepper Pike and the Joseph and Florence ... While Greater Cleveland's Orthodox schools – namely the Hebrew Academy of Cleveland and Yeshiva Derech HaTorah, both in Cleveland HeightsÃâà...
Quartz
April 12, 2018
Europe's largest Jewish communities are enduring a level of mainstreamed anti-Semitism “not seen since the Second World War,” the European Jewish Congress said yesterday (April 11), placing blame on both the left and the far-right. On the same day, Tel Aviv University's Kantor Center Report onÃâà...
Advocate.com
April 4, 2018
When it's released later this month, the A-list talent and creatives behind Disobedience position it to be a game-changing film; but the game is complex for the Jewish community. Over the years, American and Israeli Jews have established themselves as one of the most accepting religious communitiesÃâà...
The Guardian
April 4, 2018
Founded in 2005 by a group of young Jews who go by the collective pseudonym “Geoffry Cohen”, one of Jewdas's founders, Joseph Findlay, told Vice it had “an explicitly non-Zionist stance, alongside satirising the many absurdities of the British Jewish community and throwing excellent parties”.
Forward
April 4, 2018
I read Carey Purcell's personal essay, I am tired of being a Jewish man's rebellion, and felt complete and utter sympathy for the pain Purcell suffered ... And yes, this would continue to be true even if I were to convert to Judaism — a question which I desperately asked, a non-solution I naively offered.
The Guardian
April 4, 2018
Jeremy Corbyn has said he will meet the two largest Jewish communal bodies “without any preconditions”, pledging to hear their concerns about tackling antisemitism in the Labour party. In a letter to the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Jewish Leadership Council, the Labour leader said heÃâà...
Al-Monitor
April 4, 2018
According to the committee, an unprecedented new situation is emerging in terms of what constitutes being a Jew and how many Jews there might be. This, it concludes, offers an extraordinary opportunity to bring groups with some kind of connection to Judaism even closer to the Jewish people.
Cleveland Jewish News
April 4, 2018
The two — count them: two — Jewish boyfriends she writes about had told her originally that Judaism was not a big part of their lives. She calls them “lackadaisical” Jews who only celebrated the big holidays each year. But as the relationships deteriorated, she says the fact that she wasn't Jewish came toÃâà...
Haaretz
April 4, 2018
The Union for Reform Judaism had a similar reaction. Rabbi Rick Jacobs, the head of the largest Jewish movement in North America, told Haaretz that he felt "happy, relieved and proud" when Netanyahu announced the agreement on Monday. "I was proud of Israel for raising a moral voice and choosing aÃâà...
The Boston Globe
March 27, 2018
The Alfred and Gilda Slifka Foundation announced on Monday that it will donate $5 million to MetroWest Jewish Day School in Framingham. The donation will establish an initiative for “students with moderate to significant learning challenges,” according to a statement from Combined JewishÃâà...
BBC News
March 27, 2018
The demonstration outside Parliament by Jewish groups who accuse Jeremy Corbyn of failing to tackle anti-Semitism in the Labour Party is the other big story - providing the lead for The Times and The Mail. The Mail says Parliament Square has seen some extraordinary protests - but surely none like theÃâà...
Slate Magazine
March 27, 2018
I have a stepdaughter who is very Jewish-identified, who was bat mitzvahed and is very anti-Israel and pro-BDS, and I do feel like Jewish leaders risk losing an entire generation of young Jews right now because of the close identity of Judaism with Israel itself. Frankly if we want to save Judaism in theÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 27, 2018
This puts the tally of Palestinians at about 6.8 million, in contrast to 6.5 million Jewish citizens of Israel. Citing figures from the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Mendes said the number of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza does not include residents of East Jerusalem, who fall underÃâà...
BBC News
March 27, 2018
Here is the full text of the open letter to the Labour Party by the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Jewish Leadership Council. The response from Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn is also published below. Today, leaders of British Jewry tell Jeremy Corbyn that enough is enough. We have had enough of hearingÃâà...
New York Times
March 27, 2018
But this reduction of “being Jewish” to a state of hair-tearing anxiety about the surge of anti-Semitism means Weisman never quite delivers on his ... as Jews do so by way of remembering the Holocaust or being engaged with the fate of Israel rather than anything much rooted in Judaism and Jewish history.
New Haven Register
March 19, 2018
The grand reopening was combined with the JCC's Mitzvah Day. The Hebrew term means a good deed done from religious duty. Mitzvah Day combines fun with fundraising and allows volunteers of all ages the opportunity to participate in meaningful projects that benefit the whole community, according toÃâà...
Tehachapi News
March 19, 2018
Perhaps you read that title and thought to yourself, “How could a pastor be Jewish? Jews don't believe in Jesus! ... But what could be more Jewish than to believe in every jot and tittle of the Hebrew Scriptures and embrace the Jewish Messiah, who lived and served in the Jewish land of Israel, along withÃâà...
The Daily Progress
March 19, 2018
On a walking tour Sunday, Phyllis Leffler, a professor of history at the University of Virginia, pointed out buildings and described the growth of the Jewish community in downtown Charlottesville. “From the earliest, pre-Revolutionary period, there were Jews in Charlottesville, but like many small towns thereÃâà...
Jweekly.com
March 18, 2018
Now in their seventh year, the grants are funding myriad programs, including: Jewish Resource Specialists (a program of the S.F.-based Federation), ... A third cohort began in 2017 at eight sites: the JCC of San Francisco, South Peninsula Hebrew Day School (Sunnyvale), Peninsula JCC preschool (FosterÃâà...
Aish
March 18, 2018
And to my astonishment, it coaxed me back to Judaism, and to the world of Jewish education. I was astonished ... Upon graduating, one of my new study partners arranged for me to interview with the American Hebrew Academy, the world's only Jewish international college prep boarding school. I visited theÃâà...
New York Times
March 17, 2018
Yet American Jewish leaders — the heads of influential, established organizations like the American Jewish Committee and the Jewish Federations of North ... For Jews, this is personal. ... Would I hide my Judaism, read a passage on the teachings of Jesus and pretend, or do something, anything, else?
Haaretz
March 16, 2018
Does the anti-Semitic stereotype about the Jews as the contaminators of humanity originate with Jewish interpreter Luis de Torres, who is largely responsible ... De Torres, who knew Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic, French, Spanish and Portuguese, had served as the interpreter for the governor of the province ofÃâà...
CNN
March 15, 2018
The last remaining survivors of the Holocaust -- in a country that, before World War II, had more than 3 million Jewish citizens -- were declared to be "foreigners," "cosmopolitans," "Zionists" and ... He told me that "the police ordered me to take off my pants, screaming 'f---ing Jew' while interrogating me.
Cleveland Jewish News
March 12, 2018
“I follow my perception of what I consider to be the needs of Judaism these days,” he said. “The Jewish bride is very tied to the traditions and asked me to reproduce the symbolism of a Jewish marriage because of the importance it had for her.” The first Jewish same-sex wedding ceremony in Latin AmericaÃâà...
The Federalist
March 12, 2018
One of the most striking examples of this paradigm is the story of the Jewish people in the Hebrew Bible, or Old Testament. We're often inclined to view Judaism as a monolithic source of monotheistic religion, fundamentally influencing Christianity and then Islam in their assertion of the one, true God.
Haaretz
March 12, 2018
If you're attending #INTV2018 or the Jewish Funders Network conference, feel free to give us a holler! ..... That there appears to be no desire on the part of Women's March to confront Jew-hatred specifically and substantively, even as most religious hate crimes target Jews and anti-Semitism stats rise,Ãâà...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
March 12, 2018
“I appreciate that 'separation of church and state' is a term of art, but as a Jewish person it doesn't always work perfectly for me as a shorthand,” she told JTA earlier this month. Laser, 48, is also the first woman to head the Washington, D.C.-based group. She started last month after the previous director,Ãâà...
The Boston Globe
March 12, 2018
WASHINGTON — American Jewish groups and lawmakers condemned Russian President Vladimir Putin's suggestion that the 2016 presidential election may have been manipulated by Jewish citizens of his country and his implication that they are not Russians. Putin's remarks came during a long andÃâà...
Bangor Daily News
March 12, 2018
As survivors of generational trauma and beneficiaries of reparations granted after the Holocaust, Jews have a special obligation to help advance this conversation. Immediately after World War II, the Jewish Agency demanded reparations and restitution from Germany. Many Jews fiercely opposed the idea,Ãâà...
ABC News
March 12, 2018
A Jew puts his arms on a freight wagon, during a commemoration for the victims of the Holocaust at the railway station in Bitola, southern Macedonia, on ... Macedonia is holding a second day of commemorative events to mark the 75th anniversary of the deportation of almost all of the country's JewishÃâà...
New York Times
March 12, 2018
WASHINGTON — Top Democratic leaders in the House and Senate implored President Trump on Monday to employ “all resources available” to extradite 13 Russians charged last month with subverting the 2016 presidential election after Russia's president raised the possibility of Jewish involvement.
Haaretz
March 7, 2018
JI INTERVIEW -- Rabbi Rick Jacobs, President of the Union for Reform Judaism, spoke with Jewish Insider's Jacob Kornbluh about AIPAC's bipartisan message and Netanyahu's speech yesterday: "I was actually very encouraged and was heartened by the genuine bipartisanship that the APAC leaders putÃâà...
Forward
March 7, 2018
The very, very funny sketch aptly satirizes the way individuals from wealthy, insular Jewish communities tend to treat black people. As one ... Laugh, try not to get too offended, and look for yourself in this video, which manages, incredibly, to criticize some Jews without criticizing Judaism. Gefilte Fresh andÃâà...
Jewish Exponent
March 7, 2018
Not only was news of Jewish importance published, but Bernhard launched an aggressive campaign against the anti-Semites. … Bernhard addressed numberless Jewish youth organizations, exhorting them to a militant Judaism, contending in unequivocal terms that anti-Semitism could be vanquished byÃâà...
Haaretz
March 7, 2018
Farrakhan is, in a way, a stock figure of contemporary Jewish culture, the crazy uncle whose views are abhorrent but who is still invited back for Seder every year. And that means that the Jews gleefully attacking her might, as one Jewish leader liked to say, consider removing the beams in their own eyesÃâà...
The Advocate
March 7, 2018
Councilmember Stacy Head, Nadine Ramsey and Latoya Cantrell listen to people speak during the City Council meeting about the resolution to disinvest in companies that violate human rights, which the Jewish Federation and other groups see as support for the boycott Israel movement, at the OrleansÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
March 7, 2018
Rabbi Sharon Brous: Why Jews should support reparations for slavery ... Most American Jews came to this country years after the abolition of slavery, but we have thrived under a national economic system that was built on stolen land and stolen labor, a foundational wrong that has yet to be rectified.
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