admin | February 25, 2021
11:57 AM PST 2/24/2021bySeth Abramovitch An episode of the NBC medical drama Nurses has earned condemnation from the Simon Wiesenthal Center over a plot involving an Orthodox Jew who refuses a bone graft from a potentially "Arab" or "woman" donor. The controversy has led NBC to pull the episode from all digital platforms and future airings
admin | February 25, 2021
Gottheimer Announces New Steps to Combat Violent Extremist Groups, Calls for Proud Boys & Other International Extremist Groups to be Officially Designated as Terrorist Organizations Provides Law Enforcement & Intelligence Community With More Tools to Fight Back Against Domestic Terror NEWTON, NJ Today, Tuesday, February 23, 2021, U.S. Congressman Josh Gottheimer (NJ-5), a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, urged the U.S
admin | February 25, 2021
Julia Watts Belser In biblical stories about Noah, his ark, the individuals who survive the flood and those left behind, Jewish tradition reckons with questions of human hubris and survival. California State University, Northridges eighth annual Maurice Amado Foundation Lecture in Jewish Ethics on Wednesday, March 10, will explore ancient Jewish texts, along with testimony from contemporary disability communities, to grapple with the issues surrounding climate change and the question: Whose lives does society deem worth saving?
admin | February 25, 2021
For decades, human rights defenders and Jewish immigrant families have reported that thousands of children were abducted from their biological parents in the first years after Israel was created in 1948. In their opinion, these children, many of whom are of Yemeni descent, were given to Ashkenazi Jewish couples (Central and Eastern Europe) who lived in Israel or abroad. Doctors told the biological parents that the children had died in childbirth, but the bodies were never handed over.
admin | February 25, 2021
One of the worlds oldest known Esther scrolls, also known as a megillah, has found its final home in Jerusalem after recently being gifted to the National Library of Israel (NLI), which has the worlds largest collection of textual Judaica. Esther scrolls contain the story of the Book of Esther in Hebrew and are traditionally read in Jewish communities on the festival of Purim, which will take place on February 25-28 this year. 3 A mid-15th century Esther scroll gifted to the National Library of Israel (Photo: National Library of Israel) Scholars have determined that the newly received scroll was written by a scribe on the Iberian Peninsula around 1465, prior to the Spanish and Portuguese Expulsions at the end of the 15th century.
admin | February 25, 2021
The images were stark: men and boys fleeing from a synagogue into the night as Montral police gathered outside the building. In the video taken on Jan
admin | February 25, 2021
People think of Hasidism as a movement that was mostly a movement of men; men left their families behind and went to be with the Rebbe, and the audience for whom the Rebbe wrote was an all-male audience. Women were really left out of Hasidism.
admin | February 25, 2021
Outside of government, two things known to be big in Sacramento are soccer and tango. Both passions will be represented among the films this year at the 22-year-old Sacramento Jewish Film Festival with a Jewish angle. A Common Goal is a 2020 documentary about Israels national soccer team and the fact that about half the players on the squad are Israeli Arabs, including the teams first-ever Muslim captain
admin | February 25, 2021
There aren't many Jewish horror films out there. Other than a handful of films and TV episodes about golems (a mud or clay creature that follows instructions written on paper and slipped into the creature's mouth), there isn't much in the horror genre that takes place in the Jewish religion.
admin | February 25, 2021
The Foothill College Theatre Arts Departments virtual performance readings of Lynn Nottages Intimate Apparel are scheduled 7:30 p.m. Friday through Sunday.
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