admin | May 10, 2021
By SASHA KESLER (re: Weekend vandalism targets 4 synagogues, April 29) When I was 16, the Seattle Jewish Federation was attacked by a violent shooter on a Friday afternoon. A woman died, and four were shot mostly non-Jews, since many of the Jews already had left for Shabbat. When I worked at that federation several years later for a summer fellowship, the pain and trauma was still palpable.
admin | May 10, 2021
By ETHAN STARK-MILLER How should a community come together in the wake of hatred and find a way to collectively heal? Thats the question many in this corner of the Bronx are asking themselves after at least four synagogues along the Henry Hudson Parkway were targeted by a vandal last month. The natural first step?
admin | May 10, 2021
The last time my dad went to his hometown of Martinsville, Virginia, was for his mothers burial at the Jewish cemetery there two years ago. It had been nearly five decades since hed moved away from the little industrial town on the Carolina borderpart of a mass migration of the Souths small-town Jews to the regions urban centersand at least fifteen years since hed last returned. The main street where his parents had run their department store for thirty years was full of empty storefronts
admin | May 10, 2021
Gina Raimondo sworn in as Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, the Rhode Island governor picked by President Joe Biden to lead the Commerce Department, has been sworn in by Vice President Kamala Harris. (March 3) AP Madame Vice President: Its great to see youre planning to visit Rhode Island Wednesday, with Gina. Who, by the way, deserves the titleMadame Secretary, since she now runs Commerce, but around these parts, shes Gina.
admin | May 10, 2021
Algemeiner Editor-in-Chief Dovid Efune appears on i24 News. Photo: Screenshot.
admin | May 10, 2021
(JTA) Nissim Pingle, the head of Mumbais Jewish community center, hasnt left his home since March. Thats when COVID-19 began to overtake India.
admin | May 10, 2021
Ohio saw a record number of antisemitic incidents in 2020, according to a recent report by the Anti-Defamation League of Cleveland.
admin | May 10, 2021
An alleged neo-Nazi said the only issue with the Holocaust was that we did not finish the job and that the entire Jewish race should have been killed, a court has heard. Andrew Dymock, 23, is accused of 15 offences including encouraging terrorism using websites, propaganda posters, social media posts and articles he is accused of creating. Prosecutors allege that he set up and operated the website and social media accounts for a neo-Nazi group called System Resistance Network (SRN) in 2017 and 2018
admin | May 10, 2021
Amitai-Aviv Mcelveen, at Temple Beth El in Vorhees, NJ, talked about the unique experiences he has encountered due to racism and anti Semitism. NorthJersey.com It seems as if every Jew of Color has "that story." Sometimes it happens at temple, where otherworshippersinquire why they are there, said HarrietteWimms an African-American psychologist from Baltimore. "Or they assume you're the nurse of a congregant or a member of the kitchen or cleaning crew." Often, there's theassumption that aperson of color couldn't possibly be Jewish from birth
admin | May 10, 2021
Ghosts from the pages of Proust and the paintings of Renoir wander through sumptuously appointed salons and galleries, charmed to life by James McAuley in his alluring and disturbing history The House of Fragile Things. These spectral figures once belonged to a highly affluent milieu that was as celebrated as it was demonized. Its members bore such names as Cahen dAnvers, Camondo, Ephrussi, Reinach and RothschildJewish citizens of France who, in the years between the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and the countrys ignominious defeat by Hitler in 1940, assumed that their wealth, prominence and perhaps especially their philanthropy would save them from harm
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