richards | March 10, 2017
Olive oil jar 8,000 years old Courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority The Reward A little girl complained to her father that her chores are too difficult. The father, a chef, invited her to the kitchen and put up three pots to boil. In the first he placed a potato, in the second an egg and in the third, a coffee bean
richards | March 10, 2017
Devin Naar says Ladino connects Jews with Latinos and Muslims, two communities he considers marginalized in Trumps America. (Meryl Schenker Photography/The Stroum Center for Jewish Studies at Washington University) (JTA) One-year-old Vidal doesnt know the significance behind the lullaby his father sings him at bedtime. He knows it helps him fall asleep, but notthat the Ladino song is part of an effort to teach himwhat served asthe lingua franca of Sephardi Jews of the Ottoman Empire for over 500 years.
richards | March 10, 2017
Heres a story youve been waiting all year to hear. Its from the nineteenth century and concerns Reb Chaim Soloveitchik of Volozhin, a city in what is now Belarus. Reb Chaim later moved to Brest, called Brisk by Jews, and was the grandfather of Rabbi Joseph B.
richards | March 10, 2017
Israel Hayom Friday March 10, 2017 Israel Hayom At the inaugural Jewish American Heritage Month celebration in May, 2010, Obama remarked: "We've got senators and representatives, we've got Supreme Court justices and successful entrepreneurs, rabbinical scholars, Olympic athletes -- and Sandy ... and more »
admin | March 10, 2017
Email a copy of "Yes, Churchill Really Was a Friend of Jews and Zionism" to a friend Winston Churchill.
simmons | March 10, 2017
Getty Images The DC Womens March. In a New York Times op-ed, Does Feminism Have Room for Zionists?, Emily Shire writes that she is troubled by the portion of the International Womens Strike platform that calls for a decolonization of Palestine as part of the beating heart of this new feminist movement. Shire concludes her piece by noting that she does not believe she needs to pick one belief or the other: I will remain a proud feminist, but I see no reason I should have to sacrifice my Zionism for the sake of my feminism
simmons | March 10, 2017
A central point of contention during #IsraeliApartheidWeek is the allegation that being anti-Zionist means one is necessarily anti-Semitic. While there are no doubt examples where one may be both, its unclear whether, and how, the two are necessarily linked
simmons | March 10, 2017
The Anti-Defamation League says white supremacists have begun college recruiting drives including at schools in Ohio. The drives include posters and fliers with racist messages. The Anti-Defamation League has recorded more than 100 incidents this school year alone, with six of them at Ohio schools including Kent State and Ohio State.
richards | March 10, 2017
Congregants of Bnai Jeshurun in New York City rally on behalf of immigrants Thursday, Mar. 9, 2017. Bnai Jeshurun is one of several synagogues more assertively embracing activism since Donald Trumps election.
richards | March 10, 2017
The Boston Globe Fight over control of oldest US synagogue reaches appeals court The Boston Globe BOSTON Appeals court judges deciding the fate of the nation's oldest synagogue seemed skeptical Wednesday about a lower court's decision to put control of the building and a set of bells worth millions of dollars in the hands of the congregation ...
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