admin | April 20, 2020
Dr. Medoff is director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, in Washington DC, and author of more than 20 books about the Holocaust, Zionism, and American Jewish history
admin | April 20, 2020
There is big news from Israel today. Benny Gantz, the man who for three elections tried to retire Netanyahu, has surrendered. Benjamin Netanyahu will be prime minister for the next 18 months, which will include a corruption trial; Gantz will then become prime minister, and the power-sharing deal is said to OK annexation of large portions of the occupied West Bank beginning in July
admin | April 20, 2020
The Israel lobby group J Street hosted Israeli legislator Yair Golan on Zoom the other day, describing him as one of the great hopes for the left progressive Zionist camp in Israel, and Golans comments are a reflection of how far-right Israels Jewish politics are.
admin | April 20, 2020
On April 20, some may celebrate the 131st birthday of a man who helped define the 20th century. An artist, philosopher and successful author and motivational speaker before his election to national office, he valued expertise.
admin | April 20, 2020
This year marks the 31st anniversary of the global Shoah initiative "Unto Every Person There is a Name". This public recitation of names of Holocaust victims will be held around the world on Yom Hashoah, the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes Remembrance Day observed this year on Tuesday, April 21, 2020. This extremely moving program usually takes place in Atlanta on a Friday close to Yom Hashoah in the rotunda of the Georgia State Capitol Building downtown at 206 Washington Street SW.
admin | April 19, 2020
Photo Credit: Flash90 {Originally posted to the JNS website} On Thursday night, as sundown falls on the holiday of Passover, Sephardic Jews everywhere will celebrate the centuries-old tradition of Mimouna. This is the night when Jews open their doors to their neighbors, offering tables lavish with sweets to usher in a year of sweetness and good fortune.
admin | April 19, 2020
On the first day of Passover, a group of police officers found a small synagogue in the Hasidic hub of Monsey, in Rockland County, N.Y., where about 50 men had gathered to pray. They broke up the service, issuing eight summonses. When Ed Day, Rocklands county executive since 2014, posted about the incident on Facebook, he got nearly 100 comments
admin | April 19, 2020
There is one indelible scene in Unorthodox that will stick in your memory long after youve finished watching the four-part miniseries. Esty, a 19-year-old Hasidic Jew, has escaped from the constrictions of married life and her ultra-conservative community in Williamsburg and fled to Berlin. There she befriends some music students
admin | April 19, 2020
Unorthodox might be one the best miniseries that Netflix has ever produced.
admin | April 19, 2020
CORRECTION: This story was updated at 5:18 p.m. on Saturday, April 18, 2020, to state that the Loceys are Messianic Jews. A previous version incorrectly stated Hasidic Jews
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