admin | April 13, 2020
MONTREAL -- The global COVID-19 pandemic began in January with China, Italy, Iran and Korea being hit hardest first. The entire world was soon engulfed in the pandemic that forced the shutdown of institutions, businesses, schools and most of society within months.
admin | April 13, 2020
PARIS In the Jewish world, perhaps one of the most controversial outcomes of these unprecedented times is the new restriction on the relationship between Israel and the Diaspora. For the first time since its establishment, the country has shut its doors to non-Israeli Jews living abroad
admin | April 13, 2020
Dont you just hate it when the word hate is tossed around to hide hatred? The Washington Posts A Muslim activist, fearless in the face of hate (April 5 print edition) epitomized this double-speak. The word hate appears half-a-dozen times, including in the headline, in Ausma Zehanat Khans review of Linda Sarsours We Are Not Here to be Bystanders; A Memoir of Love and Resistance.
admin | April 13, 2020
Photo Credit: Saul Jay Singer During the 1940s, Benzion Netanyahuthe father of Israels current prime ministerserved as executive director of the American wing of the Revisionist Zionists, the movement founded by the Zionist leader Ze ev Jabotinsky. Netanyahu was also editor of its biweekly publication, Zionews. At the same time, Netanyahu was completing his Ph.D.
admin | April 13, 2020
This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Rabbi Yaakov Perlow, who inherited the leadership of the Novominsker Hasidic dynasty that was founded in Poland by his grandfather and transplanted to Brooklyn a century ago, died on Tuesday at his home in the Borough Park section.
admin | April 13, 2020
When my mom-friends and I were discussing where to do our Passover shopping last weekend, one sheepishly asked, Is it anti-Semitic for me not to want to go to the kosher supermarket because of coronavirus? Yes, I immediately answered
admin | April 13, 2020
Updated April 09, 2020 09:14:21 If you've had a moment to collect your thoughts and breathe after bingeing the truly wild documentary series Tiger King, you might've noticed another Netflix series that has been trending this week that's also based on a true story. Unorthodox is a four-part German-American miniseries and Netflix's first offering to be told primarily in Yiddish.
admin | April 13, 2020
by Nicole Aboodi | 4/13/20 3:00am Have you ever been invited into a space that feels so uniquely intimate and fragile that you observe it as carefully as possible, hoping to not miss a moment?
admin | April 13, 2020
Haredi society has been struck uniquely hard by the coronavirus pandemic.
admin | April 13, 2020
SIBIU, Romania You can almost hear the children clamoring,their voices filling the room with amelngeof Hungarian, Romanian,Yiddish and Hebrew.You can almost see them, clutching notebooks and climbing the staircase, with its Star of David and menorah motifs, on their way to class. You can almost imagine their Sibiu, their Austria-Hungary, their Romania, their Europethatonce was. But this former Jewish school, located next to the citys sole remaining synagogue, has largely been lost to history.Romanias communists nationalized this building in the 1960s, turning it into an apartment complex and stripping it of any meaningful religiosity.
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