richards | November 29, 2017
Anti-Semites saw in Zionism a kindred spirit and they shared with other Zionists the understanding that getting rid of European Jews somewhere else is a goal that they share, Massad stated. The alliance deepened during World War Two, as the Zionist movement broke the international Jewish boycott of Nazi Germany to embark on a lucrative Transfer Agreement with Hitlers government that exchanged Jewish property for the bodies the Zionists needed to colonize Palestine
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richards | November 29, 2017
In the 1970s, a movement known as Jewish feminism started in the American Jewish community. It was a movement that originally sought to make Jewish woman superior to equal to Jewish men.
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richards | November 27, 2017
During my childhood in the 1960s and 70s in the USSR, the only books published about Jews were ideological works that criticized Zionism, Israel and what the Soviets considered the national Jewish mentality. As you might imagine, thanks to these books, many of us had a totally distorted picture of our true origins as Jews
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richards | November 27, 2017
What is a Havurah? Havurah (plural:havurot) comes from the Hebrew word haver, whichmeansfriend or fellowship
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admin | November 27, 2017
IHRAs 31 member countries adopted the Working Definition of Holocaust Denial and Distortion at IHRAs Plenary meeting in Toronto on 10 October 2013. The Working Definition of Holocaust Denial and Distortion was developed by IHRA experts in the Committee on Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial in cooperation with IHRAs governmental representatives for use as a working tool
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richards | November 27, 2017
Subscribe! http://bitly.com/1iLOHml Long before the creation of the state of Israel, the World Zionist Congress functioned as the Jewish government. Now it is on its 37th meeting. So what is the Zionism and how does it influence Israeli politics?
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simmons | November 25, 2017
Under the settlement between Kiryas Joel and the nonprofit group Preserve Hudson Valley, the village agreed to drop an earlier campaign to annex more than 500 acres of land while the group agreed to drop its appeal of the towns approval of the 164-acre annexation. Instead, the village will annex 56 more acres, for a total of 220.
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admin | November 25, 2017
Sephardic music has its roots in the musical traditions of the Jewish communities in medieval Spain. Since then, it has picked up influences from Morocco, Argentina, Turkey, Greece, and the other places that Spanish Jews settled after their expulsion from Spain in 1492
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richards | November 24, 2017
This traditional lullaby is sung in Ladino, a Jewish hybrid language also known as Judeo-Spanish. Performed by the Janet and Jak Esim Ensemble (Antik Bir Huzun / Judeo-Espanyol Ezgiler - Kalan Muzik, 2005).
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richards | November 24, 2017
The roots of Zionism lay in Eastern Europe, notably within the confines of the Russian Empire. It was there, towards the end of the 19th century, that the largest and, in many ways, the most dynamic of Jewish communities was locatedthough it was also the most troubled. Conceived by czarist autocracy as a major obstacle to its drive to transform the population into a uniform and malleable society, Russian Jewry was subjected to extremely severe pressure to change its customs, culture, and religion.
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