The Jewish Education Night of Networking Yeshiva University News – Yu News
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Searching Jewish wisdom for guidance on vaccination | Ohr Chadash | stljewishlight.com – St. Louis Jewish Light
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It has been almost a year since the start of the pandemic, when life as we knew it came to a screeching halt. Now, vaccines are starting to be distributed, and we can see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Rabbi Megan Doherty on the Heartbeat Bill The Oberlin Review – The Oberlin Review
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Rabbi Megan Doherty has served as director of Hillel and Jewish Campus Life for four years. Before coming to Oberlin College, Rabbi Megan worked at Mishkan Haam Reconstructionist community in New York and Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale University. In February, she wrote an op-ed for Cleveland.com titled Ohios abortion laws interfere with the practice of my religion.
Jonah Sanderson Successfully Navigates His Disability, Aims to Make Jewish Community More Inclusive – Jewish Journal
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Thirty-two-year-old Jonah Sanderson describes himself like a bottle of his favorite single malt scotch. When you first put your nose to it, the smell is caramel, shoe leather and tar and you think, This is strange, who would drink this?
Warm Up With This Creamy Pumpkin & Butternut Squash Soup – Yahoo News
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Kimberly Tilsen-Brave Heart While some kids are all about pizza or chicken fingers, chef Kimberly Tilsen-Brave Hearts nine-year-old daughters favorite food is soup. Odds are, thats thanks to Tilsen-Brave Hearts array of creative and comforting soup recipes, including her signature butternut squash, pumpkin and coconut bisque. Its been lauded as magic by customers of her Etiquette Catering company in Rapid City, South Dakota
Steven Spielberg’s Shoah foundation links up with UK schools to fight hatred – Jewish News
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Steven Spielbergs USC Shoah Foundation has linked up with secondary schools in the UK to help children tackle hatred and build empathy through storytelling. The California-based foundation, which has been world-leading in its use of technology in Holocaust education, is taking part in the Stronger than Hate challenge, together with digital curriculum provider Discovery Education. Students aged 13-18 are asked to submit a project showing why united communities are stronger.
Hungary’s Crackdown on Artists and Academics – Jewish Journal
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The Hungarian-Jewish filmmaker Janos Szasz is best known in the United States for his 2013 film The Notebook (Le Grand Cahier), released here in the summer of 2014. Its based on the international bestseller of the same name, written in French by the Hungarian-born novelist gota Kristf. The Notebook is an almost fairy-tale parable of Holocaust resistance and resilience, focusing on two twins who live out the war with their witch-like grandmother in rural Hungary, learning not to feel in order to survive
Review: From Where They Stood – Cineuropa
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01/03/2021 - BERLINALE 2021: Christophe Cognet immerses himself in a meticulous investigation, analysing the very rare clandestine photographs taken by deportees themselves in the death camps In a sunny countryside landscape, the earth is dotted with white. These are bone fragments which return to the surface when it rains: they are always in the ground we walk on. Traces of the abominations that were nazi concentration camps, these places dedicated to the negation of humanity, have already been the subjects of many cinematic representations from different angles, with very different styles and approaches, from Samuel Fullers The Big Red One to Claude Lanzmanns colossal Shoah, from Alain Resnais Night and Fog to Lszl Nemes immersive Son of Saul[+see also: filmreviewtrailerQ&A: Lszl Nemesinterview: Lszl Rajkfilmprofile] a duty of memory that is all the more essential considering mans unfortunate tendency to look away from his most obscure inclinations.
Tories call for resignation of Toyin Agbetu from council naming review in wake of antisemitism claims – Hackney Citizen
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Hackney Conservatives are calling for the resignation of scholar-activist Toyin Agbetu from the Town Halls review into the naming of local landmarks, buildings and public spaces. Agbetu hit the headlines this week after allegations of antisemitism made by City Hall Conservative Mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey led him to resign from London Mayors Sadiq Khans new diversity commission. The allegations relate to past comments asserting an immoral hierarchy of suffering from which victims and survivors of the Holocaust benefit as compared to those of African enslavement
Protecting Ashkenazi Jewish Magic: Preservation Through Storytelling and History – tor.com
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I was a sophomore in college when my grandfather died. He was a good man82 years old, a trumpeter, soft-spoken and kind.
