admin | January 20, 2020
NEW YORK (JTA) Thirty years ago, Kimberl Crenshaw coined the term intersectionality as a way to help explain the oppression of African-American women. The theory of how different forms of discrimination interact is a useful tool to recognize the way privilege and oppression overlap. It can serve to challenge notions about oppressions and hierarchies, class struggles and racial divides
admin | January 20, 2020
Most Jews have never heard of the World Zionist Congress, and those that have probably learned about it in history class. It was founded over a century ago by Theodor Herzl
admin | January 20, 2020
Vladimir Putin is considering a pardon for an American-Israeli woman jailed in Russia on drug charges, a Russian media outlet reported Thursday on the eve of visit to Israel. Naama Issachar was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison after Russian authorities caught her with 9.5 grams of cannabis while on a connecting flight from India to Israel.
admin | January 20, 2020
What can a Jewish cookbook from 1946 tell us about the 21st-century Jewish-American experience? Liza Schoenfein, the Forwards senior food writer, and Jane Ziegelman, a culinary historian, took our signature collection of Yiddish recipes off the shelf and found a direct line from the balaboostas of yore to the kitchens of today. When Regina Frishwasser sat down to write the Jewish American Cook Book, she had a particular reader a mind
admin | January 20, 2020
LOS ANGELES (JTA) Over the past century, Jews have endured what filmmaker Yaron Zilberman calls a trilogy of traumas: the Holocaust, the Yom Kippur War and the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. The Israeli-American writer, director and producer has spent much of his career exploring these ordeals, and his latest film is no exception
admin | January 20, 2020
(JTA) Members of the Cambodian royal family gathered last month at the Raffles Hotel Le Royal in Phnom Penh for a celebration. There was music, traditional Cambodian dance performances and plenty of food. The occasion
admin | January 20, 2020
United Airlines ordered 50 Airbus A321XLR aircraft from Airbus just last month.
admin | January 20, 2020
Renn Loren From Interviews with Hugh Baver Returning where we last left off with our feature story, arriving at the decision to relocate to the Dominican North Coast was not an easy one for Hugh Baver. Considering all the pros and cons, he was torn between following through on his Dominican vision and missing the close proximity of his adult children, grandchildren, and friends in the Boston area
admin | January 20, 2020
A SPECIAL service to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz is taking place later this month. 2020 marks 75 years since the end of the Second World War, a war which revealed the worst in humanity as Nazi Germany sought to destroy amongst others the entirety of the Jewish population of Europe. The service is taking place on Monday, January 27, at 7pm in St Marys Church, Carew Cheriton.
admin | January 20, 2020
Tiffany Haddish thinks the word of God is the best gift you can give someone. The 40-year-old actress was gifted a Bible with a diamond cross on the cover from Beyonc and Solange Knowles mother Tina Knowles Lawson during her birthday bat mitzvah last month, which she hosted to celebrate her Netflix special Tiffany Haddish: Black Mitzvah. And although Tiffany is Jewish, she still appreciated the present she received, because she says sharing your beliefs with someone is a blessing.
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