admin | June 24, 2020
Dozens attended a demonstration in support of Black Lives Matter in Branson Sunday. Several also attended in counter-protest. Springfield News-Leader Editor's note: This story has been updated with the correct last name of a woman who spoke to reporters and was caught on video
admin | June 24, 2020
He was once one of Hollywoods most bankable stars, an unrivalled A-lister who took hits like Braveheart and Lethal Weapon to the top of the box office charts. But since Mel Gibsons career was mired by a string of abusive incidents and vile anti-Semitic remarks, hes landed in an unofficial movie jail with producers too anxious to go near him. The 64-year-old actor has most recently been reportedly left out of plans for the Netflix Chicken Run sequel after Winona Ryder accused him of anti-Semitism.
admin | June 24, 2020
York University in Ontario, Canada. Photo: Andrei Sedoff via Wikimedia Commons
admin | June 24, 2020
San Francisco Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement in recognition of Jewish American Heritage Month: During Jewish American Heritage Month, Americans of all backgrounds celebrate the vital role that the Jewish community has played in our history and our heritage. Whether as public servants, educators, entrepreneurs, scientists or artists, the contributions of Jewish Americans have greatly enriched the beautiful fabric of our nation and made America more American
admin | June 24, 2020
By Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Weinreb Conflict resolution is one of the most important tasks in human relations. Open up any newspaper and you will read of schoolchildren bullying each other, of married couples who are in bitter conflict, of political parties enmeshed in verbal warfare, and of nations literally at war.
admin | June 24, 2020
(JTA) In the world of Orthodox Judaism, men may run the synagogues but Lenora Garfinkel built them. Garfinkel was one of the first women to study architecture at the prestigious Cooper Union College in New York and went on to build Jewish community buildings across the New York metropolitan area over the course of a career spanning more than six decades.
admin | June 24, 2020
(JTA) This week, as he prepares to open Camp Modin and administer coronavirus tests to its hundreds of campers and staff, Howard Salzberg is still fielding 50 calls a day from parents who want to send their kids.
admin | June 24, 2020
Is Chabad-Lubavitch, the ultra-Orthodox Hasidic outreach movement, returning to the political wars?
admin | June 24, 2020
Image by Facebook A screenshot of a Facebook post on Donald Trumps account, linking Antifa to the upside-down red triangle. In two Facebook posts, Donald Trumps reelection campaign tied the loose network of anti-fascist activists known as Antifa which he suggests naming a terrorist organization to an upside-down red triangle, a symbol strikingly similar to one used by Nazis in concentration camps to identify political prisoners and communists
admin | June 24, 2020
By Ben Sales, JTA About 15 years ago, a large Reform synagogue in Northern California installed a set of windows in its religious school engraved with the names of some 175 prominent Jews, from biblical figures to famous actors. One of them, sandwiched between Zionist leader Vladimir Jabotinsky and former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, was Judah Benjamin, the most prominent Jewish official in the Confederacy. Benjamin, who enslaved 140 people on a Louisiana sugar plantation, served variously as the Confederate attorney general, secretary of war and secretary of state
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