Jewish communities

Daniel Barenboim, the star conductor, himself a Jew, joined a growing number of musicians who handed back their Echo awards in protest, arguing in an open ... Members of the Jewish community in several German cities organised protests at which people were invited to wear the kippah in solidarity.

An agreement reached this week surrounding a Louisville Jewish Orthodox congregation's property and its contentious landmark designation would benefit the city's entire Jewish population, those involved say. The deal would allow the Anshei Sfard congregation — Kentucky's only Orthodox synagogue ...

Directors of the 125 Jewish community relations councils, or JCRCs, across the country are tasked with finding consensus across an increasingly divided ... “I think communities across the country are more divided because the country itself is more divided,” said Anita Zusman Eddy, executive director of the ...

Sebastian Lelio, the director who recently won the Academy Award for best foreign film for “A Fantastic Woman,” grew up Catholic in Chile knowing almost nothing about observant Jews. So when the Jewish actress Rachel Weisz approached him a couple of years ago and suggested he co-write and direct ...

Also named as defendants: the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City and two of its employees, along with one employee of the Truman Library Institute. Both organizations were co-sponsors of the the May 9 event. A private security professional then employed by the Jewish Community ...

The attack in Berlin, caught on video, involved a 21-year-old man wearing a Jewish skullcap, also called a kippa, who was suddenly attacked by an assailant calling out "Yahudi!" — the Arabic word for Jew. The man being attacked replies, "Jew or no Jew you have to deal with it." A 19-year-old Syrian ...

"If I could, I would cook all day," says the rabbi, who is also the co-director of Chabad of Uptown, a community center for Jewish people. ... holiday or recipe, chances are you'll find an Orthodox Jew whipping it up on their local TV news station thanks to Chabad.org, a website promoting Judaism that last year ...

On March 30th 2018, in Ventnor at the Chabad Ventnor Shul - Chai Center, Rabbi Avrohom Rapoport and others are setting up for the annual Passover Seder, expecting around 120 people. Some of the items present for Seder: (l-r) Matzah, wine, and on the Seder Plate - Egg, Maror, Charoset, lettuce, and ...

"If you take the word Pesach in Hebrew, there are two translations. One of them, Pesach in one word, is pass over, meaning when G-d came to Egypt and he wanted to expunge the firstborns of Egyptians, He 'passed over' the Jewish houses to spare them. But the other explanation, when you divide Pesach ...

So it may come as a surprise that in Vilnius, the country's capital, there is a thriving Jewish community center (including a cafe serving bagels), an expanded new ... beneficiaries of a Western-looking government that encourages Litvak Jews to return and has proposed to declare 2019 “The Year of the Jew.

She added Labour should be "the natural home for the Jewish community" and that it is "shameful" the party has not been "of late". Ms Shah was herself suspended by Labour in 2016 over comments she made about Israel, but was later reinstated after apologising and admitting her "ignorance" for the ...

Until we publicly wrestle with these tensions, we'll continue to confront moments that lay bare the Black-Jewish divide. We must articulate the contradictions that complicate the Jewish community's position within the movement to end white supremacy. White American Jews have historically been victims of ...

Hundreds of Jewish communities in Connecticut will observe one of the religion's biggest holidays this week, and many are inviting all — regardless of religion — to participate in the festivities. The eight-day festival of Passover, which marks the exodus of the Jews from Egypt, is celebrated this year from ...

Gan Levy says Jewish community farming is an “international movement,” with people from Toronto to Tel Aviv looking backwards and finding a long history of sustainable farming in Jewish communities. Sarah Kornhauser, director of Hazon Denver, a chapter of a nationwide group that supports Jewish ...

Knoll, who managed to flee a mass roundup of Jews in Paris during World War II, was found dead Friday in her apartment in the east of the French capital, where ... The murder of Knoll and Halimi has once again rocked France's Jewish community, which was the victim of terror attacks in 2012 and 2015.

As Federation president, I am so proud that our Jewish Federation continues to pave the way with innovative programming and funding mechanisms. What we are achieving here in South Jersey is groundbreaking for any Federation, let alone one of our size. In the Federation “world,” we are considered a ...

Yale University's Jewish/Hebrew/Israeli a cappella group's shows in Squirrel Hill this weekend sound like a lot of fun. ... “I'm very excited to bring Magevet home with me, not only because I want the Pittsburgh Jewish community to meet us, but also because I think the group will absolutely love Pittsburgh ...

In a statement on its website, the Federation of Jewish Communities in Spain (FCJE) said it “thanks the Government of Spain for the decision taken on Friday, March 9, 2018, to extend the deadline for a year for Sephardic descendants of Jews expelled from Spain in 1492 to apply for Spanish nationality.”.

Lazar and his Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia are often accused of supporting Putin unconditionally in exchange for his regime's seal of approval for Chabad, which has helped the group become the dominant Jewish force in Russia. In reality, Lazar's group speaks out in harsh terms against ...

Among the survey's starting points is an estimate by community leaders that around 400,000 Jews live in Canada. That estimate amounts to less than 2% of the total Canadian population, but it would give Canada the world's fourth-largest Jewish community after Israel, America and France. Numbers may ...

Now, Farrakhan is a vicious anti-Semite (among their other sins, Jews, he said last week, encourage "degenerate behavior in Hollywood turning men into women and women into men.”) It is indeed gross that Mallory is currying favor with a despicable man. But as we pillory her, we should remember: ...

Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has apologised for the "hurt" caused by his party towards the Jewish community in Britain. The statement comes after two Israel lobby groups, the Jewish Leadership Council and Board of Deputies of British Jews, called for a demonstration on Sunday against alleged ...